What color is your career change?

I'm not a fan of career quizzes and personality tests that ask you a handful of questions and then purport to tell you what you should be doing for a living. I think finding a career you're passionate about (or at least halfway enjoy) is a bit more involved than listing the contents of your fridge, dissecting the dreams you had the night before, or choosing what member of the animal kingdom you'd most like to be.

Still, this simple career test was too good to keep to myself: the Career Color Counselor, courtesy of CareerBuilder and the Dewey Color System.

This free test takes moments to complete: Click on your favorite colors and you get an instant assessment of what type of worker you are (I'm a "creator") and what your ideal careers are (mine include ad exec, web designer, publicist, fine artist, English teacher, author, editor, reporter, tech writer, photographer, landscape architect, and oddly enough, lawyer).

I took the test twice and got the same results. But some of the readers of BNET -- the fine site that tipped me off to this little test -- tried the test and said the results couldn't be more wrong.

Even so, it's a nice alternative for those who are bored at work today and sick of playing solitaire.

Freelance writer Michelle Goodman is the author of "My So-Called Freelance Life" and "The Anti 9-to-5 Guide." E-mail her at ninetothrive@nwjobs.com.