I'm currently studying Advertising, and after reading a typical ENFP personality profile I'm not really surprised that this sort of career path interests me.
So, I'm just curious: What do other ENFPs out there do for a living?

Broadcasting and finance. My ENFP helps me rip the cover off the ball with broadcasting and news.
E- I can handle being in front of everyone.
N- allows me to understand anything I work out.
N-F gives me the charisma, dress, style, communication
P - can study lots of subjects everyday and enjoy it. I don't have to get to technical if I don't want to.

Advertising & marketing is a great choice. You get to work with people. If you work for an agency then you work with many clients in manifold industries. You will have to understand the needs they fill relative to the market, competition and industry and how to best communicate how the products/services fill the needs.

Even if you end up working for a single company, you will be constantly thinking of ways to tweek systems and use creativity to boost revenues.

Hrmm it seems that black & white is en vogue for photos

I'm studying to be a music therapist. Now, I've heard ENFPs say that they changed what they wanted to do alot, but I've had the same goal for about 4 years, so we'll see how it goes...
This seems like the ideal job for me, and seems to match many established ENFP chracteristics:
using intuition, creativity ('creative' is my middle name!), good interpersonal skills, service-oriented, wanting to simpley help people, I'm sure there's more but I'll leave it at that...

hm... fair warning about advertising, princess, my ENFP brother wanted to go into marketing from 7th grade up until he graduated with a Business degreee/marketing concentration, only to go out into the workplace and find out that it sucked, a lot.

In his words, "if you're the marketing guy, then your job is to keep people as happy as possible, without giving them what they want.... or at least, give them as absolutely little as possible, to save your company money." It turns out that the entire marketing "track" in a company is just filled with one job after another that seems shitty, but that it gets closer to what you got into marketing to do if you manage to rise higher and higher in the company.

He's actually going to get his skills reevaluated, and looking to go back to school or pick up an entirely new career path after working for 1.5-2 years.

At least marketing is a good base from which to grow. America is a service based economy and the difference between Dolce Gabbana & Target is 10 dollars in material and 100 dollars in price/marketing or customer experience.

What they don't teach you in school is you really only make money when you combine multiple skills. Like marketing-finance, Bio Chemistry-physics Bio & accounting Marketing & recruiting etc. Or me... Media-Finance. When you can say you kick ass in two or three fields then you make a good living.

I am a veterinarian. Spent 5 years in large animal practice, 3 years in emergency practice, 3 years as a cardiac surgeon, 4 years as a laboratory director, I also own a laboratory business and I am a partner in 2 other ventures. I have done a lot of cool stuff and there is lot's more to do before I take up the rocking chair. Don't worry about the money, it is the easy part. And for ENFP's, there is not amount of money that will compensate us for work that we strongly dislike. Find something you love to do and do it uncommonly well.
One very imortant part about compensation is that the business owners make money, the employees get compensated for doing work. I have always wanted to make money, so I own or co-own the business. But, it isn't for everyone and there are other prices to be paid. Such as, there are times when my employees make money and I am not. No free lunch either way!

Find something you love to do and do it uncommonly well.

Here Here, best advice. Agreed.

Oh, welcome to the forum RedVet1. We are glad to have you!

Hi I'm new here.

I wanted to be an artist growing up, but my father steered me into getting a business degree.

I ended up graduating in the top 10% of my class and have since been in Sales & Marketing for the last 15 years, and mainly love it! I say "mainly" because it is so essential for me to advocate a business / product / service that aligns with my values and beliefs. If it doesn't, I leave!

I recently looked back to see if there's a common thread in my work choices & experiences - and that is my passion for connecting with others and inspiring them to make positive changes in their lives.

So now I've started a business in personal & prosperity development that mentors others in attraction marketing and gives them a business opportunity to start a business from home. I'm loving it!
www.SmartStartUpBusiness.com

Hey Chrisineho, welcome to the group. I'm glad your here and looking forward to your input!

One thing though if your going to plug your business you need to plug our forum too and put a link on your website.

Thanks. I may eventually have a "plug" forum... fyi

That depends on what the members think? What do you think guys?

That's an interesting idea. I was wondering if you were going to tell her off for that (putting up a link at her first post), or wait to see if she contributed elsewhere, first. Most forums just delete all spam outright, and don't let anyone advertise... but I kind of like your solution. Quarantine it into one "advertisements" section, and require that they show a link to the section of their site that mentions this one, and delete the post after a day or two, if they don't return the favor or don't leave the link showing where they mention here. Maybe also require that they be otherwise somewhat-contributing members to the community, at least for a time, to prevent people from dropping by and leaving one post and never saying anything else?

It's a nice compromise, and a lot less authoritarian than other forums tend to do. Very ENFP, lol. As long as there's some way to prevent it from overwhelming the rest of the forum or disrupting the rest of the conversation, I like the idea and think it could help get the word out quickly.

I wish I could think of mutually beneficial solutions to difficult situations. That would have never occurred to me. My mom, an INFJ is really good at it, but I'm more like my dad, with my very extreme, unyeilding opinions that leave no room for compromise, even when a compromise would be the most reasonable option. My mind just doesn't work that way, I guess.

I'm in high school right now, but I have thought in so many options...

I thought of being a music engineering, actor, director and writer. I also thought of being a psychologist. Actually that was the first option. I think I just want to be all of them.

curse of the Ne, lol.

I am in a profession that is in no way suited for my personality. Fortunately we have a business psychologist of sorts here who works closely with those at my level and above to help us overcome our weaknesses and utilize our strengths. I am the sole ENFP surrounded by INFJ's. What is it I do? I am a Business Analyst. My ability to see the big picture is a great asset in this job, but my inability to really delve into the details and provide thorough analysis has at times made my job nearly impossible. I have been told by the psychologist here that there should be an 80/20 split with strengths and weaknesses on the job. He believes that I am flip flopped.

When I have to write a clear analysis of a large amount of data I have to consciously take steps to break it down so that I do not get overwhelmed. This, to me, is very tedious.

What would I be doing if I could do anything? Anthropological Linguistics.

Hello everyone! I'm a researcher in biological sciences. I study microalgae. I have some difficulties with deadlines and datas analysis, but I like to know new people from my work subject, I like to travel and I like to present my studies in congresses. So, despite I have to go to the psychologist every month, I really like my job.
But... If I can change... I wouldn't choose another thing! I just have to do some new and different things sometimes to be enthusiastic with the life.

I did very well in school - Bachelors in Corporate Finance and Economics, Masters Degree in Accounting. I worked for a major accounting firm for about 18 months miserably, then for an investment bank for 4 months. I became a pale shadow of myself as I had to execute detailed analysis of facts and figures, synthesize large amounts of research information into concise reports, and endless revisions of presentations that were often times fruitless. I was a dead man walking and couldn't figure it out... I mean... I'm smart and was at the top of my class in the most advanced finance and accounting classes (get it?... theories, concepts, projects where others do the work). Now, I'm realize how unsuited my personality is to that analytical career path.

And now, as an entrepreneur, I find it challenging to follow through with the great insights and visions my partner (ENTP) and I have for the company. We need to raise enough money to hire a doer.

In his words, "if you're the marketing guy, then your job is to keep people as happy as possible, without giving them what they want.... or at least, give them as absolutely little as possible, to save your company money."

You know, that actually sounds like an attractive proposition to me. I do that everyday with people in my life. But the problem is, I'm a big spender too.

Amir, you are right. We are definitely not well-suited for detailed analyitics.

I'm also a big spender

Posted By marmot on 07 Aug 2009 01:46 PM

I'm also a big spender

That seems to be a trend for some ENFPs...

Money just doesn't seem...important, you know? I either spend like crazy on whatever shiny catches my fancy....or I hoard away and am afraid to buy anything until I have this huge stockpile. The only time it really bothers me is when I'm completely out of money...which means I'm out of options to do anything. Freedom is soooooooo important. >.> I think just the knowledge that I can up and go at any time is a big deal for me. I don't have to, but having the option there helps. Not having it....freaks me out.