R -- The Realistic type

This type is one of "Holland's Vocational Personality Types".

Adjectives

frank, honest, humble, materialistic, modest, natural, persistent, physically strong, practical, reserved, robust, rugged, stable

Preferences & Values

• the structured and systematic manipulation of objects, machines or animals.
• dealing with things, rather than with ideas or people
• jobs rooted in reality
• working outdoors
• work with tools, especially large, powerful machines.
• conventional political and economic opinions
• creating things with their hands

Dislikes

• social exchanges
• social and educational activities
• pedagogical activities (ie. doesn't like formal learning settings like classrooms in schools or universities)
• radical new ideas

Aptitudes

• mechanics
• technical abilities
• good physical skills

Common Vocational choices

agriculture, air traffic controller, car mechanic, construction work, electrician, some engineering specialties, farmer, fish and wildlife management, laboratory technician, some military jobs, skilled trades, surveyor

Negative Traits

• can have trouble expressing themselves in words or in communicating their feelings to others
• anti-social
• aggressive in outlook

Re`al*is"tic (?), a.

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

© Webster 1913.