If you want a perfect fitting career, choose a field that demands you to perform tasks which require all your natural talents. Many bright people get frustrated in their work because they spend much of their time on activities for which they have no natural aptitude. They are in the wrong job for the simple reason that they did well at a subject in school, although they had no natural aptitude for it. They might simply have relied on their other inborn aptitudes to solve certain problems. It is a little bit like making a fire using two sticks of wood rather than simply using a match. You get the same result, but one way takes longer and wears you out. When problems at work get more complex these people begin to lose interest and get frustrated.

Take a well-cooked bowl of oatmeal: the ingredients you need are water, milk, oats and syrup. You can either have it lumpy using more oats and less milk, or have it sweeter using more syrup. You could also have it runny using more water and more milk. There are many variations. Just as in this example, the skills that certain professionals like an architect, a landscape designer, and an engineer use, are similar.

An architect or landscape designer seem to be very different but they do both use their inborn three-dimensional ability. The same can be said for an engineer. The difference is the amount of each function used that gives distinction to the career.

When you have worked out which functions you want to perform and how these functions fit into your career, you are in the right job, like a fish in water.

People who have a spatial ability express their talent by improving objects, taking them apart or designing them. They are good at visualizing and reading maps. It is not necessary to obtain a degree in engineering if you are high in this ability. People who are good at designing or repairing do this automatically, without necessarily studying for it. Similarly, why bother studying engineering if you are lacking in spatial ability?

If you are sitting at home thinking which career would suit you best you might never get there. It is much easier to choose the job functions first that you enjoy using. Some career titles might sound great and interesting but they might not at all contain the functions you like to perform. Once you have understood how your innate talents work together, you will find it easy to choose your main job functions (like teaching, performing, analyzing etc.), and the rest will be a piece of cake.