I would greatly appreciate your advice and ideas regarding possible career path options.
Matching most ENFP profile descriptions, I identify myself as an individual with some EXTREMELY unrelated skills and interests, from the creative (music, web art/design) to the encyclopedic (history, geography).
I introduced myself already as a business and social sciences student at university level with plenty of psychology courses, and each of the interests/skills I mentioned here share the same importance and value in my perception - some of them having started many years even before I finished middle school!
Consider also that although I am still a student, I ran a small business in the travel sector and have founded several non-profit projects in the field of environmental sustainability. In each of these projects and business, I always used the full range of skills I used to have before, however...
There's one thing that I am very sure about: even though I enjoy entrepreneurship, I don't see doing business as my ultimate "professional identity", but rather as a skill to promote. I think the main problem I would feel in being "just" a businessman all my life would be the lack of "intellectual" challenge.
(Would appreciate your thoughts and insights especially about this paragraph!)
Holding everything else equal to the ENFP standard, I value the so-called "intellectual" a lot.
Two "realistic" career directions I have given serious consideration during my time at university, BUT rejected include:
- Management psychology (or Human Resources development, training, recruiting, etc)
- International development or diplomacy (facilitating conflict resolution between countries)
One option that still seems viable is:
- Academic researcher/professor (in the different fields I am interested in) with a side-business
Among the non-realistic ones I still have:
- Exploration or emergency pilot
- Orchestra conductor
(Non realistic simply because unless I become a millionaire (not possible with small businesses and slightly negative attitude towards "profit-making"), I would not be able to fund the training for those careers!)
Yet, I have a considerable amount of "basic/amateur" experience even in these two (have written actual orchestra music for non-commercial projects, very deep interest in aviation, maybe even slightly more than all of the above).
To sum up: as you can see, I have many interests in often UNRELATED areas, and to be successful in either of them I would need to train and invest a considerable amount of time.
Thank you for reading all this block of text.
Maybe you have better ideas for me?