This is a Seesmic post that I made this evening about an email I got from BBC Scotland about this blog post from 2005: My JIIG-CAL results from 1985.
According to the BBC journalist who contacted me “the story will be up on the website from first thing on Friday morning and there should also be a piece on Reporting Scotland tomorrow night.”
So check it out on BBC Scotland tomorrow at 18:30 … obviously if you’re living in Scotland that is; maybe they’ll do a BBC iPlayer kind of thing too, I dunno.
Update
The story is now on the BBC News Scotland website: The computer that predicted the future, although the link to my blog is currently broken — I’m sure the BBC Web boffins will fix that soon though.
I did see it here first! I remember doing Jiig Cal in 1988ish I got the Statistician one too! I reckon they had a quota of numbers per occupation that they wanted to fill and they were really short on Probation officers (England and Wales) and Occupational Therapists. I look forward to seeing the BBC piece on it!
I am the daughter of the man who “invented” JIIG-CAL – Jim Closs. Being a handy guinea-pig, I filled in numerous JIIG-CAL forms over the years and was repeatedly told that I’d become a teacher – no matter, seemingly, what I put in to the forms. I had no interest in, and no intention of becoming a teacher. I went to uni to study English Literature – and after my first seminar, feeling overwhelmed by loud public-school types spouting about Wordsworth, decided to convert 1/3 of my degree to Education. But I still wasn’t going to be a teacher – it was just an easy course to get on to and to take alongside English. I did an MPhil and went into Publishing and then got made redundant from my first editorial job. Thanks to my degree, I got a job working as an editor for a big academic publisher – on a Primary School reading scheme. They sent me to try out the books in primary schools – I realised that I preferred this to the editing. At the age of 26, I finally admitted defeat and applied to train as a teacher. I’m now at the end of my 12th year of teaching and I can’t imagine doing anything else. It’s hard to admit that your parents are right – even if a computer told them the answers!
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Hi Jan, thanks for your post — that’s a great story.
I still remember quite vividly sitting in Mr Wood’s classroom (what would eventually become the computer room) at Selkirk High School filling in my Jiig-Cal questionnaire.
And then the excitement at getting the results. And then the slight disappointment at reading the results and discovering that Rock Star wasn’t listed. Or Cricketer.
What is this about? What did it predict for you? Wanted to comment on the photo but it wouldn’t work. There is a better one of you at Catriona Somerville and the Rev. Cecil Hargreaves’ wedding at Bowden in 1972.Jane is more attractive . I used to have dark hair!
Here’s what it predicted for me, Mum: