Career Cruising Dot Com

I should start by saying that I'm sorry for having already given away the punchline to this post. It was previously posted as a Fun and Out-of-Context Quote, but after thinking it over I've decided that it deserves a bit more background information. I'll put a link to the quote at the end, but (especially if you haven't seen it yet) please wait until you read the rest before clicking it.

In eighth grade, the year before I entered IA, our teachers told us that now (meaning then) was a good time to start thinking about what career choices were available to us. The time when we would have to pick seemed impossibly far off, but they said that it would come faster than we expected and that we should at least start to think about it. For several class periods, we had to go into the computer lab and answer endless questions on careercruising.com about out interests, what classes we had taken/planned to take, our plans for the future, ad infinitum. To be honest I don't think it helped much, as those who had no idea what they wanted to do just answered the questions, stared at the results for a few seconds, then forgot them, and those (like me) who knew what they wanted to do answered all the questions with the intent of making the site tell them exactly what they wanted to hear. It got pretty monotonous after a while, and I was quite glad when it was over.

Some time later, I found out that (per state law) we have to complete some sort of career preparation work each year at IA. Naturally, we use careercruising.com, which I still can never spell right on the first try. Why? Harvey wills it. Thus, every year we have to sit down and go through the same questions over and over, getting more or less the same results. Most of the results are to be expected, and everyone likes when their results match the life goals they already had. We do, however, have a little fun looking at the results of a few certain people. Now I shall reprint the previously-published punchline:

"Number one was neurologist, number two was vending machine operator. Could they be more different?"
-Rachel B. on a career aptitude test