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STEM field guide without a degree — Eugene, OR

STEM field guide by personality and purpose — without a degree

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

STEM field guide without a degree. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Each STEM field has a trait signature. Software runs on persistence and abstraction; health on empathy and composure; research on patience and inquiry; engineering on practicality and spatial reasoning. Web, software, security, data and technician roles open through certificates, apprenticeships and portfolios; the STEM Farm track assumes no degree.

Careers the Eugene, OR economy leans on

3 counties across Oregon; 3 metro. Most counties are nonspecialized, which in ERS typology usually means a diversified metro economy. Flags: 3 housing stress.

Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Network Architect+12%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Statistician+8%Mathematician+8%Web Developer+7%Mathematics Professor+7%Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%Computer Programmer-6%Physician Assistant+20%Epidemiologist+16%Industrial Engineer+11%Mechanical Engineer+9%Medical Scientist+9%Electrical Engineer+7%Aerospace Engineer+6%Marine Engineer & Naval Architect+6%Biomedical Engineer+6%Agricultural & Food Scientist+6%Civil Engineer+5%Registered Nurse+5%Microbiologist+5%Geoscientist+5%Environmental Engineer+4%Physician & Surgeon+4%Clinical Laboratory Technologist+4%Environmental Scientist+4%Chemical Engineer+3%Zoologist & Wildlife Biologist+2%Atmospheric Scientist & Meteorologist+1%

Counties in this labor market

Benton County, ORLane County, ORLinn County, OR

Metros around Eugene, OR

Portland, OR–WA11 countiesBoise City, ID9 countiesKennewick–Richland–Pasco, WA6 countiesBend, OR3 countiesMedford, OR2 countiesThe Dalles, OR4 countiesAberdeen, WA3 countiesKlamath Falls–Altamont, OR3 countiesCondon, OR2 countiesCrescent City, CA2 countiesLa Grande, OR2 countiesNewport, OR2 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem field guide without a degree" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.