Comments on: Jiig-Cal and BBC Scotland http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/ The Revd Gareth J M Saunders' weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Gareth J M Saunders http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-69066 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:01:33 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-69066 Here's what it predicted for me, Mum: <ol> <li><strong>Statistician</strong> (8/10) - Skills: logical, numerical ability, good self-expression, co-operative</li> <li><strong>Occupational Therapist</strong> (8/10) - Skills: good organiser, resourcefulness, sympathetic, good with your hands</li> <li><strong>Youth & Community Worker</strong> (8/10) - Skills: outgoing personality, good organiser, energy, tolerant</li> <li><strong>Social Worker</strong> - Fieldwork (8/10) - Skills: sympathetic, pleasant manner, able to inspire confidence, patience</li> <li><strong>Assistant Prison Governor</strong> (8/10) - Skills: able to understand other people's problems, leadership, good administrator, able to discipline</li> <li><strong>Mathematician</strong> (8/10) - Skills: good concentration, logical, analytical, good self-expression</li> <li><strong>Probation Officer (England/Wales)</strong> (8/10) - Skills: able to inspire confidence, perseverence, resilience, sympathetic</li> <li><strong>Social Worker - Residential</strong> (8/10) - Skills: able to inspire confidence, perseverence, resilience, sympathetic</li> <li><strong>Insurance Underwriter</strong> (8/10) - Skills: sound judgement, honesty, able to take responsibility, accuracy</li> <li><strong>Physicist</strong> (7/10) - Skills: scientific approach, numerical ability, good reasoning power, accuracy</li> </ol> Here’s what it predicted for me, Mum:

  1. Statistician (8/10) - Skills: logical, numerical ability, good self-expression, co-operative
  2. Occupational Therapist (8/10) - Skills: good organiser, resourcefulness, sympathetic, good with your hands
  3. Youth & Community Worker (8/10) - Skills: outgoing personality, good organiser, energy, tolerant
  4. Social Worker - Fieldwork (8/10) - Skills: sympathetic, pleasant manner, able to inspire confidence, patience
  5. Assistant Prison Governor (8/10) - Skills: able to understand other people’s problems, leadership, good administrator, able to discipline
  6. Mathematician (8/10) - Skills: good concentration, logical, analytical, good self-expression
  7. Probation Officer (England/Wales) (8/10) - Skills: able to inspire confidence, perseverence, resilience, sympathetic
  8. Social Worker - Residential (8/10) - Skills: able to inspire confidence, perseverence, resilience, sympathetic
  9. Insurance Underwriter (8/10) - Skills: sound judgement, honesty, able to take responsibility, accuracy
  10. Physicist (7/10) - Skills: scientific approach, numerical ability, good reasoning power, accuracy
]]> by: Rosalie J. Saunders http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-69045 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:40:34 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-69045 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! 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!

]]> by: Gareth J M Saunders http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68838 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:01:50 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68838 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. 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.

]]> by: View from the Potting Shed » Blog Archive » My JIIG-CAL results from 1985 | The weblog of Gareth J M Saunders http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68837 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:55:03 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68837 [...] Friday 20 June 2008 I’m now featured on the BBC News Scotland website. Check out this new blog post: Jiig-Cal and BBC Scotland. [...] […] Friday 20 June 2008 I’m now featured on the BBC News Scotland website. Check out this new blog post: Jiig-Cal and BBC Scotland. […]

]]> by: Jan Closs http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68821 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:29:55 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68821 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! 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!

]]> by: Chris http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68816 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:50:49 +0000 http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/06/19/jiig-cal-and-bbc-scotland/#comment-68816 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 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!

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