What’s the one thing that’s more important to an urban professional than an impeccable sense of style? You got it right - personal and professional betterment! After all, the only thing worse than looking tacky is living - or working - shoddy.

With this in mind, urban professionals choose their suits, bags, shoes and career decisions with care. Some professions require very specific training and abilities; other posts are more lenient, allowing you to fall into them by accident. You’d have to learn the ropes, true, but it’s perfectly all right for you to start on these jobs as a greenhorn.

Still, how do you know the work you do is your life’s calling? How do you know you shouldn’t at this moment be scouring the ads for possible employers or considering an alternative lifestyle that, while off the beaten track, may just turn out to be as lucrative? Take this test and find out.

Test I.
1. I cross…
a) town by bus
b) only after looking left then right
c) days off my calendar.

2. If I ever get a weekend free, I’d like to go
a) camping
b) throw a garage sale
c) the Hamptons

3. Men make the best
a) cocktails
b) business proposals
c) valets

4. I make it a point never to carry
a) typhoid
b) credit cards
c) cash

5. Peaches is my
a) color
b) favorite fruit
c) nickname

How did you answer?
A - You could be anything you feel like becoming. You are a generic personality.
B - You’re spontaneous but you also have a head for figures. You should be an artist. You won’t starve in the gutters. In fact, you might make a killing if you run your own gallery.
C - You should be a socialite. You are born to party and spend money.

Test II.
1. When I answer the phone, I most likely would say
a) Hi. I was just listening to some Vivaldi, but now that you called…
b) This had better be good.
c) Hi, you have reached Neverland. Please leave a message and Tinkerbell would get right back to you.

2. Complete this line from Shakespeare. A rose by any other name is
a) a Kennedy
b) a flower
c) a scent

3. I see dining out a
a) career
b) waste of time and money
c) nice change

4. When I’m alone, I
a) call the Hilton and have them page my name
b) look at stock values
c) make paper planes

5. If my apartment were to burn down, I’d save
a) the photo where I managed to throw an arm around Nicole Richie
b) my son
c) my dog

How did you answer?
A - You are capable of things most people would have to stomach. Congratulations! You make a perfect social climber.
B - You have no imagination. You should be a nun. That, or an IRS agent.
C - You are much too kooky for the corporate world. You should teach kindergarten.

I’m sure there are other measures of employment suitability, and I intend to track them down, too, so I could help you plan your career goal for the next ten years. Long live the working class!