Personal Interests and abilities

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Personal Interests and abilities
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Instructions

• There are 20 slides which list abilities and
  interests, such as working with your hands or
  speaking in public.
• As you read the slide, decide whether this is
  something that you find
• VERY INTERESTING (1)
• RATHER INTERESTING (2)
• A LITTLE INTESTING (3)
• NOT VERY INTERESTING (4)
• NOT AT ALL INTERESTING (5)

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Instructions

• Find the number on the wall that corresponds to
  how you feel about that topic, and move to that
  location.
• Reminder 1 means you find something really
  interesting, five means you arent at all
  interested in it.

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I am.

• good with my hands. I like working with things I
  can touch and hold.

5
I like

• problem solving! I like looking at a problem and
  figuring out ways to solve it.
• (solving math problems, figuring out how to fix a
  car that is making strange soundsany sort of
  problem solving!)

6
I am

• very competitive! I want or need to win, and I
  hate, hate, hate to lose.

7
I like to

• work independently. I dont like working in
  groups.

8
I like

• pizza. It is Gods gift to all humans and should
  be respected and loved as such.

9
I like

• performing! I love to be on stage acting, dancing
  or singing.

10
I like

• working with the public, working with people of
  all sorts.

11
I like

• a certain amount of stressI work better when I
  have some stress in my life.

12
I like

• working with machines.

13
I like

• keeping good records, and keeping things really
  well organized.

14
I like

• doing calculations and math.

15
I like

• working with computers and all sorts of
  interesting technology.

16
I like

• sushi. Healthy, tasty, whats not to love?

17
I like

• reading!

18
I like

• writing!

19
I like

• music! Music is a very important part of my life.

20
I like

• speaking in front of people.

21
I like

• advising and helping others.

22
I like

• doing active work that requires movement and
  change.

23
I like

• directing and helping people learn how to do
  things.

24
I like

• doing indoor, seated work.

25
I like

• spending as much time out of doors as possible.

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I like

• to help people.

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Response

• On a lined piece of paper, please write a
  paragraph (five sentences minimum) on your
  strongest interests and abilities. Choose a
  couple of the interests from the slides, and tell
  me why you like it so much. What do you do that
  allows you to use this interest? Is there a
  career area that you are interested in, because
  of this ability of yours?