TEXT MESSAGES COULD REVEAL CAREER APTITUDE A survey conducted on behalf of Woolworths in the UK indicates that the style people use to type text messages on their mobile phones reveals categories that relate to specific vocations. Researchers divided the messaging styles into four groups -- creatives, jugglers, controllers and facilitators. Creatives (actors, designers, advertising execs and landscape gardeners) used the latest text abbreviations and slang, mixed upper and lower case letters, used customized ring tones and screen settings, and lost their phones frequently. Jugglers (teachers, office workers and emergency service personnel) used capital and lower case letters and punctuation correctly, never lost their phones, and tended to nestle them between their chin and shoulder while talking, leaving their hands free. Controllers (military, lawyers and sales reps) favored brief, all-cap messages, never abbreviated, and tended to have loud ring tones and to speak loudly on public transportation. Facilitators (nurses, nannies, personal assistants) always used lower case and peppered their messages with emoticons like smiley faces. They tended to embellish their phones with colorful cases and were more likely to set their phones to vibrate in order not to disturb others. Psychologist Sidney Crown notes that messaging style is as revealing as handwriting, and suggested it could be used to predict vocational aptitude: "As fewer and fewer teens are using the written word nowadays, there is some validity in looking to other ways of determining the type of person they are, particularly with regards to what kind of job they are likely to be best suited to." (Ananova 26 Jul 2002) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology