The HK Magazine Foolproof Career Questionnaire
Hate your job? Need a new career? Take our easy-peasy life-changing quiz.

1. When on a junk trip, you are most often seen…
a) Standing on the top deck, feeling the good vibes of humanity wash over you.
b) Next to the ice box, jealously guarding your six-pack of craft beers.
c) Pitching your business idea to the richest guy on board.
d) In a series of pornographic yoga poses.
e) In the corner, having a coked-up conversation with a floaty ring.
2. You have a huge argument with a friend in the middle of SoHo. You…
a) Bottle it all up, then go write a sad poem about it in your journal.
b) Eat your woes away at one of SoHo’s many restaurants.
c) Thrive on the intellectual cut-and-thrust of debate. Let’s do it again!
d) Meditate while having your colon cleansed.
e) Write a check and make it go away.
3. After work, you chill out by…
a) Hanging out at an open-mic night in Central.
b) One word, repeated: Shots.
c) Sorry, I don’t understand the question. “After work”?
d) Running a quick ultra-marathon to ease away the stresses of the day.
e) Engaging the intimate services of qualified professionals until it’s time to work again.
4. You’re walking down Nathan Road when your flip-flop snaps. You…
a) Bind it back up with a spare piece of string.
b) Use it as an excuse to hop to the nearest bar.
c) See a niche in the market, for unbreakable flip-flops.
d) Go barefoot, as nature herself always intended.
e) Flip flops? These are $4,000 car shoes, you peasant.
5. When getting together with friends, you…
a) Talk about books in a Mong Kok coffee shop.
b) Never remember what happened the morning after.
c) Spend all your time scrolling through FB to analyze viral success.
d) Go bouldering in the morning, then just blast through a triathlon after lunch.
e) Don’t have any friends.
How did you do?
Mostly A: You plainly have an affinity for the arts. You should be...
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