How to use this

Start with the map, not the quiz

The map is the actual site. Thirty fields, everything visible at once, nothing hidden behind dropdowns. Scroll it slowly and stop at the fields you cannot name a single job inside. Those are the interesting ones — not because they are better, but because they are the part of the list you did not have.

Discover exists for when you have no starting point at all. It is a door into the map, not a diagnosis. It will never tell you that you are 91% a lawyer.

The habit: go sideways

Every career page has a section near the bottom called same interest, different trade-off. That is the most useful part of this site and the easiest to skip.

Going deeper only tells you that medicine contains cardiology. Going sideways tells you that if you like biology but do not want to treat patients, there are nine other jobs built on exactly that — and some of them take four years instead of fourteen.

If you only ever move downward on this site, it has failed at the thing it was built for.

Reading a career page

• Set your country first. The buttons near the top change the education pathway, the licensing rules and the salary. These differ enormously — the same job can take eleven years in one country and sixteen in another.
• Tap the small grey labels. Every number has one. It tells you whether that figure was measured, consistently reported, or worked out by reasoning. Treat the last kind with suspicion; that is why it is marked.
• Read the difficult column. Every page has one and it is never empty. If you find yourself skimming past it, that is worth noticing.
• Check “what to study now”. If it lists a subject as required, dropping that subject closes the door, and usually you cannot reopen it later.

If it is subject-choice season

Go straight to exams and qualifications. It covers IGCSE, A-Levels, the IB, AP, the SAT and ACT, the Saudi tracks system, and Qudurat and Tahsili — what each one is, which subject inside it opens which degree, and which doors close without it. There is a grade 9 to 12 timeline at the bottom of that page.

It is the one part of this site with a deadline attached. Career pages keep; a registration deadline in November does not.

Saving things

You can save careers into three buckets — strongly considering, maybe, and research later — from the button at the top of any career page. There is no account. It is stored in this browser only.

That means clearing your browser data deletes it, and it does not follow you to your phone. On your saved list you can export everything to a file and import it somewhere else. That export is the honest replacement for an account.

If something looks wrong

It might be. Check the date at the bottom of the page, look at what the source label actually says, and verify anything decision-critical — especially licensing — with the official body before you act on it.