Interest Inventory

Instructions: First please make a gender selection. Then, for each of the 162 categories select either the button LIKE, NOT SURE or DISLIKE. Once you have obtained your results, you may go back to the beginning, make a second gender selection and rescore the assessment.

Select Gender: Male Female

Would you like, not sure, or dislike doing this activity?

LIKE

not sure

DISLIKE

1. Draw cartoons for newspapers like not sure dislike
2. Write Novels like not sure dislike
3. Perform surgical operations like not sure dislike
4. Diagnose and treat vision problems like not sure dislike
5. Supervise groundkeepers in a plant nursery like not sure dislike
6. Grow plants in a nursery like not sure dislike
7. Guard airport security like not sure dislike
8. Issue tickets to speeding motorists like not sure dislike
9. Build frame houses like not sure dislike
10. Plan and design roads and bridges like not sure dislike
11. Assemble toys in a factory like not sure dislike
12. Inspect knitted goods for defects like not sure dislike
13. Take dictation in short-hand like not sure dislike
14. Check word processed material for errors like not sure dislike
15. Sell merchandise door-to-door like not sure dislike
16. Do sales work like not sure dislike
17. Serve food to cafeteria customers like not sure dislike
18. Provide room service to hotel guests like not sure dislike
19. Teach occupational skills to disabled patients like not sure dislike
20. Care for the elderly like not sure dislike
21. Manage an employment office like not sure dislike
22. Design achievement tests for schools like not sure dislike
23. Play professional sports like not sure dislike
24. Start horse races like not sure dislike
25. Paint portraits of famous persons like not sure dislike
26. Play a musical instrument like not sure dislike
27. Prepare medicines according to prescription like not sure dislike
28. Help scientists with laboratory work like not sure dislike
29. Raise worms for sale to sports fisherman like not sure dislike
30. Prune ornamental shrubs like not sure dislike
31. Teach in a police academy like not sure dislike
32. Patrol assigned area in a police car like not sure dislike
33. Repair aircraft engines like not sure dislike
34. Repair radios and television sets like not sure dislike
35. Assemble pre-cut magazine racks like not sure dislike
36. Inspect bottles for defects like not sure dislike
37. Keep records of schedules for a bus company like not sure dislike
38. Operate a telephone switchboard like not sure dislike
39. Sell automobiles like not sure dislike
40. Sell office equipment like not sure dislike
41. Help hotel guests get taxicabs like not sure dislike
42. Sell gas and oil at a service station like not sure dislike
43. Teach a blind person to read braille like not sure dislike
44. Care for people who cannot care for themselves like not sure dislike
45. Purchase supplies for a large firm like not sure dislike
46. Conduct studies on economics like not sure dislike
47. Sky dive by parachute like not sure dislike
48. Drive in automobile races like not sure dislike
49. Produce sound effects for TV programs like not sure dislike
50. Do artistic work like not sure dislike
51. Study the structure of the human body like not sure dislike
52. Analyze prescription drugs in a research laboratory like not sure dislike
53. Work outside with plants and animals like not sure dislike
54. Raise poultry for market like not sure dislike
55. Protect other people like not sure dislike
56. Guard money in an armored car like not sure dislike
57. Lay bricks to make walls like not sure dislike
58. Repair and install locks like not sure dislike
59. Sew labels in garments like not sure dislike
60. Assemble watches on a production line like not sure dislike
61. Type addresses on envelopes like not sure dislike
62. Make change and cash checks in a bank like not sure dislike
63. Sell houses like not sure dislike
64. Sell life insurance like not sure dislike
65. Direct people to tables in a restaurant like not sure dislike
66. Give day care service to children like not sure dislike
67. Care for developmentally disabled patients. like not sure dislike
68. Prepare descriptions of job duties like not sure dislike
69. Administer federal census programs like not sure dislike
70. Ride a bucking bronco in a rodeo like not sure dislike
71. Perform high diving feats like not sure dislike
72. Sing popular songs before an audience like not sure dislike
73. Conduct a symphony orchestra like not sure dislike
74. Do laboratory tests to identify diseases like not sure dislike
75. Conduct experiments on chemical problems like not sure dislike
76. Treat diseased trees like not sure dislike
77. Train guide dogs for the blind like not sure dislike
78. Patrol public campgrounds like not sure dislike
79. Join the National Guard like not sure dislike
80. Install flooring in houses like not sure dislike
81. Be an engineering drafter like not sure dislike
82. Work on a factory assembly line like not sure dislike
83. File letters in an office like not sure dislike
84. Keep time card records like not sure dislike
85. Sell automobile association memberships like not sure dislike
86. Sell food from a lunch truck like not sure dislike
87. Teach developmentally disabled children how to read like not sure dislike
88. Teach in kindergarten like not sure dislike
89. Direct a social service agency like not sure dislike
90. Manage a bank department like not sure dislike
91. Teach surfboard riding like not sure dislike
92. Ride race horses professionally like not sure dislike
93. Design sets for plays like not sure dislike
94. Compose or arrange music like not sure dislike
95. Be a biologist like not sure dislike
96. Be a dentist like not sure dislike
97. Breed tropical fish commercially like not sure dislike
98. Raise fur-bearing animals for profit like not sure dislike
99. Investigate crimes like not sure dislike
100. Investigate causes of fire like not sure dislike
101. Be an electronics technician like not sure dislike
102. Be a camera repairer like not sure dislike
103. Inspect new rugs for flaws like not sure dislike
104. Perform secretarial duties like not sure dislike
105. Operate an adding machine like not sure dislike
106. Sell merchandise over the telephone like not sure dislike
107. Wait on tables in a restaurant like not sure dislike
108. Plan physical exercises for disabled patients like not sure dislike
109. Perform nursing duties in a hospital like not sure dislike
110. Teach courses in a high school like not sure dislike
111. Do high level white-collar work like not sure dislike
112. Perform feats of daring on the high wire like not sure dislike
113. Perform as a trapeze artist in a circus like not sure dislike
114. Restore works of art like not sure dislike
115. Develop ideas for TV commercials like not sure dislike
116. Be a family physician like not sure dislike
117. Feed and care for animals in a zoo like not sure dislike
118. Raise vegetables for market like not sure dislike
119. Be a parking enforcement officer like not sure dislike
120. Take a machine shop course like not sure dislike
121. Refinish furniture like not sure dislike
122. Sort fruit according to size like not sure dislike
123. Be a bookkeeper like not sure dislike
124. Operate a hand calculator like not sure dislike
125. Solicit newspaper advertising like not sure dislike
126. Usher in a theater like not sure dislike
127. Be a recreational therapist like not sure dislike
128. Take a person to the doctor like not sure dislike
129. Be a personnel director like not sure dislike
130. Be a college professor like not sure dislike
131. Manage a professional baseball team like not sure dislike
132. Perform juggling feats like not sure dislike
133. Be an art teacher like not sure dislike
134. Be a radio announcer like not sure dislike
135. Tour a comprehensive health clinic like not sure dislike
136. Be a dairy farmer like not sure dislike
137. Raise dogs or cats like not sure dislike
138. Be a building security officer like not sure dislike
139. Paint the outside of a house like not sure dislike
140. Take a course in wood-working like not sure dislike
141. Fold handkerchiefs in a factory like not sure dislike
142. Record rent payments like not sure dislike
143. Be a household appliances sales person like not sure dislike
144. Deliver newspapers to homes like not sure dislike
145. Do volunteer work with the mentally ill like not sure dislike
146. Help someone into and out of a wheelchair like not sure dislike
147. Be in charge of finances for a club like not sure dislike
148. Take a course in business law like not sure dislike
149. Perform stunts with an airplane like not sure dislike
150. Be a professional sports scout like not sure dislike
151. Be a motion picture director like not sure dislike
152. Take a course in physics like not sure dislike
153. Tour a tree nursery like not sure dislike
154. Assist on volunteer citizens patrol like not sure dislike
155. Replace a faucet washer like not sure dislike
156. Operate a steam clothes presser like not sure dislike
157. Word process or write reports like not sure dislike
158. Be a traveling sales representative like not sure dislike
159. Check coats and hats in a restaurant like not sure dislike
160. Do volunteer work for the Red Cross like not sure dislike
161. Lead a community group like not sure dislike
162. Be a professional golfer like not sure dislike