Which direction is worth a look?

Twelve questions about how you actually like to work — not what you are good at, and not what you were hired to do. It sorts your answers into five broad directions and shows every answer that pushed each one up, so you can argue with the reasoning instead of the label.

Read this firstWhat it is. Twelve questions with a scoring table published further down this page. It suggests directions to read about next.What it is not. Not a personality test, not an aptitude test, and not validated against anything. It has no idea what you are capable of, and it cannot tell you to leave a job.Change one answer and the result can move. That is a property of twelve questions, not a fault in the scoring.

Question 1 of 12

A week goes badly. What actually bothers you most?

Nothing shippedThe work stalled and there is nothing to point at.Somebody was left stuckA person needed help and did not get it in time.The same problem came backYou fixed it once and the cause is still sitting there.Nobody could say why it matteredThe work happened and the point of it was unclear.We argued from opinionsNobody went and looked, so the loudest view won.

Back keeps every answer you have already given.

Which direction is worth a look?

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