The comparison of two Finance careers, in 3D!!! I MEAN THIRD PERSON! Close enough.

Today Braden learned how to effectively use control-c and control-v, I mean learned about two careers in the finance cluster (the entire system of which he regards as nonsense) through diligent research and typing about it on fact sheets.
Those careers were actuaries and tellers. Braden has little interest in either of these careers, but as always he is forced to water a budding lack of agency via blogs.
Both deal with numbers, and more specifically money, but then again that's sort of what finance is. But truth to be told, Braden, the slayer of thousands of Where's Waldo? books cannot find for the life of him other similarities between the two. Both work with computers in some capacity, though they use them in fairly different ways.
'Tis all.

Election Day and Government Careers, ugh

As the leader of an evil ninja clan, I mean IF I was the leader of a secret ninja clan, theoretically I'd need a form of government, personally I'd rather just run it as a monarchy but ninja political riots are pretty messy, so democracy it is.
Presumably I'll need some sort of legislature, and since there'll be lobbyists and tax collectors, to get the vote back I'll need to get rid of them and in doing that I must know them (stretching it a bit I know).
Both use computers heavily, so perhaps some cyber-ninja lackeys, both need to be enterprising, so perhaps a sabotage of their businesses.
Maybe even the warping to ninja-hell of various colleges as a college degree is almost necessary, and I just realized that all of the ninjas declared their loyalty to me anyway so bunk a democratic ninja clan, which I'm not the leader of of course.

The Week in Review

Truth to be told, this week went by without me really noticing it, 'twas but a blur, but if  I had to classify this week as one of the Midsummer's Night Dream fairies (I don't, but why not), I'd say its a bit like Peaseblossom, flighty and a bit annoying in retrospect, just kidding, Peaseblossom has no personality. In all honesty though, it seems like this week we did a lot without really getting anything done, but that's just me.

Arts, Video and Audio, Tech and Communications, Choose Your Own Adventure Version

Start: Through the element known as Plotconveniencum, you find yourself in the website ONet, deciding to explore the website via Plotconveniencum-bomb detonation. You:

Detonate and leave: go to path Detonate

Go to Graphic Designer: go to path Graphic

Go to Film Editor: go to path Editor

Graphic: You notice that there's a lot of words scattered about this page, you narrow it down to three distinct options, maybe four.

Go back to main page: Go to Start

Look at the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: KSAG

Look at Tools and Tech: TTG

Look at Wages: WG

Editor: Special effects have always interested you, and from your watching of the Nostalgia Critic you know that the editors have a hand in the process, but they also stitch the cuts  together, and you figured you could fancy yourself the movie equivalent of Frankenstein (the monster is called Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein is the doctor). So what to look at?
Look at Wages: WE
Look at Tools and Tech: TTE
Look at Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: KSAE
Go to main page: Start
Play Meat Boy and test your

WE: Wassup Wario?
(achievement unlocked: random video game character)
(achievement unlocked: gimmicks from previous blogs)
Well, money is a pretty big factor, you may be a professional chainsaw-bear tamer, but if you aren't making any money you won't even be able to pay the medical bills. $51,300 isn't bad, but what about Hollywood? California? 81,800 is pretty nice, still not the six digits you were hoping for, but oh well, you could always console yourself with some of the other possible benefits of the job. Go to Editor.

TTE: Desktop Computers? Hey, Diablo 3 is currently your main source of income, this doesn't seem like too big of a stretch, and the Music Editing Software sounds nice, autotune, as much as you hate it, does admittedly make the Black-Eyed Peas tolerable, quite the feat if you do say so yourself. Go to Editor.

KSAE: You know the English Language, and stalked an artist once, so you think you have a handle on the whole Fine Arts thing, but listening and thinking? You don't know, this career looks suspiciously like work, something that you have an almost religious objection to. LEG IT! Go to Editor.

WG: Awwwwwwwwww yeah, it's all about the money. Graphic Designers don't make much you see, $44,150 not bad, Maine though, woah, $28,500? That's pretty bad, you leg it straight out of that part of the page, scared by the distinct lack of six numbers. Go to Graphic.

KSAG: Fluency of Ideas, Active Listening, Writing! Those sound like things you tend to avoid, but the Near Vision and Originality somewhat appeals to your artistic side, and the sight of the word Reasoning makes you all excited ever since that Sherlock Homes marathon. Go to Graphic.

TTG: You fry your hands on a keyboard all day anyway, Notebook Computers look right up your alley, and Web Platform Dev Software sounds nice, you've been making websites since you were three. Go to Graphic.

Detonate: Ohhhhhhhh no, I can't get out of this, neither can you. Go to Start.

Connecting STEM careers, in limerick form!

We did a cluster called STEM.
We to a look at two of them.
With anthropology.
It excited me. (sort of)
Though I would rather have done some chem(istry).

My other was robotic-ism.
I got a bit of criticism.
About taking jobs.
Replacing with robs.
But I think that that's just narcissism.

So why are these two in STEM?
I think it's because they stem (like originate, it counts!)
From science the first,
and unrelated bratwurst.
With mathematics taking place for the lem(ming, a lemming is a nickname for some robots in the field of robotics, as they're dumb)

 I DID IT! YEAH!

Colors influencing other colors, typed dramatically, you'll have to take my word for it.

So I took a pseudo True Colors test, though influenced heavily by the image that I have constructed of myself, I'd say that it's still somewhat accurate.
My two main colors were green, my primary, and orange, my secondary, logical and spontaneous respectively.
These may seem in direct opposition to each other on the surface, but that's not what I have to talk about, that topic (being the one I have to talk about) is how they affect each other.
So what does orange and green together mean? A murky brown typically, but in this case it means that, though there is typically a logic behind my decisions, it's the C. Escher of logic, there is logic behind it, but that reasoning isn't typical, it has the appearance of randomness without actually being so.
Or maybe not, I'm not a psychologist, and beyond that, any personality classification test paints in very, very broad strokes, it's the subtleties that matter.

The True Colors of those I know

There are 4 True Colors, Orange for spontaneity, Blue for compassion, Green for logic and Gold for organization. So I apparently have to classify my teachers and students in some of the broadest strokes possible, and it's still not as good as Myers Briggs. First, blue, as for my teacher, I'd have to say my band director Mr. Tripp falls nicely into that category, when he's not concerned about the feelings of all of his instrumentalists (which is rare), it's because he's feeling so much emotion that the part of his mind thinking that this isn't terribly kind is being drowned out. Coincidentally, the Bluest student I can think of is in the band, a trumpeter name Breeze. She's somewhat naive, but only because of that compassion, and though she doesn't tend to get large bursts of emotion, it may be she just hides them for the benefit of those around her. And green, Mr. Aydt's pretty logical, not uptight, but he doesn't think very freeformy if that makes sense, probably not but whatever. As for a student, none that I know, they may be somebody I'm just not thinking of, but as far as I know I don' know any overly logical kids my age. I wouldn't say I have any orange teachers, same for students, most of them have mellowed out with age, and tend to ditch their spontaneity, though I don't really know most of the people my age anyway, so I could just not being seeing it.
Everett's a gold, definitely, he's peppered with the other archetypes too but he is a very structured and civic person, teacher wise, maybe Mrs. Wilson, to her, the journey is the destination, and the journeying will take place within the designated area and with footsteps to the beat of the drum, if you must rest feet shoulder-width apart and head lolling at a forty-five degree angle, take that as you will.
That's pretty much it.