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...it's too little, too late.  Basically, i found the tools for self discovery helpful and pretty accurate, but at my age i don't see any opportunities for myself based on the information.

i'm 45, and according to the book i'm an ASR - ASC, of which i can find precious little information!  I should be a concert pianist or a composer, oh, if only i could read music and play the piano. 

I dislike sounding pessimistic, but, being uneducated and between jobs, i don't find much comfort here.  The most enightening personality element i have discovered is that i possess no E at all, except for "agreeable", which explains the fantastic lack of accomplishment over my life. 

i'm all ears if you have any suggestions,

many thanks,

keithc

I have a similar problem.  I have done some on line tests and came out as ARS or ASR, though the careers which appeal are more AER or ARS.  There really doesn't seem to be much for ARS types and to me the A bit is quite contradictory to the R - perhaps that's why there aren't many careers for them.  Anyway, I'm beary 49, stuck with a mortgage and living on my own and all the careers that appeal are really low paid!

I don't always agree with the descriptions of the Holland types.  When I do art work or printmaking  - which I don't have time to do at the moment and is partly why I bought the book - part of the attraction is actually handling the materials and seeing what happens with them.

It seems as though the best I can hope for is to find a job that is "ok" and which makes time for artistic work on the quiet. But oh how I wish I had the time in hand to train as an illustrator or sighwriter.  I have had so muc career advice over the years but it has never been possible to break away and now I am frantic about saving something for when I can't work any more.  Ideally I would find something artistic that would help me earn a little indefinitely.  But the truth is that at the moment I leave home early and come home late and am just too darned tired to d anything but go to bed.

Let me know how you manage,  Keith