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Winning		2012-07-02 09:59:45 PM

2 votes:

My school gave us a career test in 6th grade. I thought being a forklift driver would be fun so I chose all the answers that I thought would give me that job at the end of the test and I got it.

Earguy		2012-07-02 09:20:53 PM

2 votes:

In some ways I think it's cool, but in others I think it's a bad idea. I fear it would lead to pre-ordination at an age when the child cannot make decisions on his own.

Where now "I want to be a doctor" will lead to advice about hard work and the importance of studying, with such a test, it may simply lead to "don't be silly, don't you enjoy playing with hammers and building blocks?"

orclover		2012-07-02 09:14:17 PM

2 votes:

When I was in Kindergarten, I wanted to stop being beaten every night and for the teacher to notice all the bruises.

World hasn't changed.

mjjt		2012-07-02 10:21:20 PM

1 votes:

do any of these early tests, career or academic, have any predictive value at all?

had an idea that the marshmallow test was only one which predicted anything about what a 5 or 6 year old was going to be like 10 years later?

Fano		2012-07-02 09:38:52 PM

1 votes:

Loucifer: I'm really hoping that ditch digging isn't done by robots in 2026.

Your job is to build and maintain those ditch digging robots.

DarkPascual		2012-07-02 09:28:37 PM

1 votes:

At that age, I wanted to be a Masked Luchador...

/Something between Randy Savage and Ric Flair with the mask of Mil Mascaras...
//Huh... gotta run to the CAW at WWE 12...
///I SWEAR THAT I INVENTED THE CANADIAN DESTROYER BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE!!!!

Harry Freakstorm		2012-07-02 09:27:21 PM

1 votes:

No. I am raising the best damn carny that ever grifted your grad student out of his beer money. Now your grad student is going to have to work some OT and sort the bathroom books out of the Barnes and Noble shelves.

jtown		2012-07-02 09:23:54 PM

1 votes:

Cooool!

/lousy sheriff

kenoshaillini		2012-07-02 09:22:17 PM

1 votes:

The College board/ ACT are ruthless as a "non profit" can be. This is about making money, not the children.

Kanemano		2012-07-02 09:00:28 PM

1 votes:

Wait till they break out the chips

www.futurama-madhouse.net

HOT

brap		2012-07-02 08:57:54 PM

1 votes:

I had Brap Jr. fetally tested. Apparently he's going to be Peter Pan.

Tali		2012-07-02 08:55:14 PM

1 votes:

One of my sisters is a carny. The fact that she's the sanest of my relatives probably goes a long way toward explaining why I get along better with my husband's family than my own. As for Sis... well... she smokes way too much weed, but she saves her money and has a nice house the five months out of the year she's off work, so I guess the carny gig's not all bad.

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