TV personality, actor, writer/journalist, teacher, diplomat...

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Posted By sbalbom on 20 Jul 2009 05:22 PM
Broadcasting [...] 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.

Lucky, lucky you!!
I think Broadcasting would be a fantastic career!  I don't think I could really imagine anything better, really.

It would be great to have all the variety that each new story brings and getting to learn about different subjects. 

I would love to do that, only I get flustered a bit too much in my opinion, to do the job smoothly.  Live interviews would be somewhat nerve-wracking because of this (although I do get along with others quite well), but I think I would do well with a prompter!  Ha Ha! 

This is a reply to the main topic and also a big hello as my first post!

I am a mobile computer technician, working for myself.

I spend the day driving around my city tending to phone calls that request I come and fix people's technical issues.

What I love about my job:
Meeting heaps of new people
Driving in the car with some music turned up
Having conversations with people, listening to their points of view
People are very gracious when the problem has been fixed
The freedom because it is my own business and I call the shots
The autonomy (I work on my own)
The quiet time - get to do a lot of driving which helps me to relax.
Love playing with new computers and gadgets and talking about them with people
Coming up with new ideas for the business i.e. marketing strategies etc

What I don't like so much:
Can be a rather negative job - mostly fixing problems!
The repetitive nature of it (even though I own my own business - it becomes routine after a while)
Don't like focusing on the computer, would rather be talking with person and generating ideas etc

Writing this out has given me more perspective on what I like / disklike..

I often think that a consulting role working directly with people would be what I most enjoy... perhaps in marketing , customer service , personality profiling, life coaching etc.

I'm sure many of you on here would agree... if there was a job where we could meet up with people, and brainstorm ideas for them or their businesses, get them all psyched up and talk and go off on tangents about various things..... and then after all that accept their money in return.. I think that would be ideal..

Something in my mind tells me this job doesn't exist....... what do you all think? what is stopping us from creating a role such as this?

I am a project manager for a healthcare IT company.  We focus on improving healthcare quality.  I love to lead my projects and I have my hands in everyone's job - technical, process, functional, whatever.  I love to dive in and solve the problems.  I also love that we are working to improve healthcare and potentially change lives.  In fact among my peers I am the only one with a specific (earned) directive to improve process.  But I HATE HATE HATE filling out status reports, time logs, all that bureaucratic crap.  And in fact my bosses won't let me improve process, they just want me to think that I can heh.  They reject 90% of my carefully laid plans because they don't see the patterns in our current workflow, and haven't learned the breadth of information that I haven't been able to keep myself from pursuing.  I think that they are both ENTJ's of the bad sort.  

"I'm sure many of you on here would agree... if there was a job where we could meet up with people, and brainstorm ideas for them or their businesses, get them all psyched up and talk and go off on tangents about various things..... and then after all that accept their money in return.. I think that would be ideal.."

 

Sounds like advertising. (Though something tells me Don Draper isn't necessarily an ENFP.) I suspect the problem with ENFPs and advertising is that pesky internal values system occasionally getting in the way. But creatively I bet it can be a lot of fun.

@Rogarn Good point. My dad is always on me to become a professor maybe he's onto something...

I consider myself a creative with a way with words, so I am currently studying journalism/PR. What I would really love to do is to write stories though, but I think I'm the kind of person who gets energized by other people and learn a lot in a group setting, so I might want to write a book somewhere down the line when I've gotten enough interesting life experiences. People simply energize me and I can never imagine getting a job where I mostly face the computer.

Money is still going to be a problem if I think about it. Where I live, housing prices are exorbitant and it can take up to 35 years to service a PUBLIC HOUSING loan. Furthermore, public housing is prioritized for married couples. As someone who loves her freedom and does not want to get tied down any time soon, the thought of it is purely daunting to me. If I could, I would move out of my country/city to a whole new country, given I would be able to get a job overseas!

I see this has turned into a mini-rant of my worries for my future. Le sigh.

My career has always been shaped by being ahead of the curve - using my N+P to keep ahead of everyone else - and boredom that comes with doing the same thing - kept me out ahead. As soon as I got somewhere safe, where say an N-T or INTP would have have been delighted, I was bored.

When I was a child I wanted only two things - to be a fighter pilot (ENFP: literally blue sky]) or to own my own software company.I taught myself to programme a computer before the age of 10 (N, P)When I was 19 I left college to work for myself. In 1998 I joined Dell Europe and went from a software technician to software engineer to lead technology developer - EMEA. At 23 I was head of a Dublin Software company (I grew up in Africa). at 24 I started a software company. I now own several companies and the leading Irish Internet Marketing company. I've never made enourmous money - I don't have the discipline. But my skills as an account manager, salesman and being able to understand complex systems in my head - and being able to inspire, lead and champion ideas is something I love.

There's nothing an ENFP can't do - its just having to do it more than twice three times once that either holds you back or drives you onward. 

An ENFP with a small bit of intelligence can do everything

My career choice was to become a pharmacist....this could go very wrong, or very right

We'll seeeeeee

*has nightmare of standing in the same spot at the back of a pharmacy forever looking at pills*

xxx

(I started off wanting to be a fashion designer, did a year of art school, then a forensic scientist, then a make up artist...then a pharmacist)

Well, I have wanted to be a lawyer since I was in the 7th or 8th grade. Busted my buns and finally graduated law school when 38 and spent 10 years as a Public Defender. I knew I could NEVER do the tedious work of contract law, wills and estates, etc - I had to be a litigator standing in front of judges and juries. It was exciting for a while as it fit my core values (I'm very left-leaning and as an ENFP wanted to help people, not send them to prison). Now I am 51, have moved from the US to Canada (where I would have to do the equicalent of another year of law school and another bar exam to be licensed) and I'm burned out on the law (read: bored). Imagine that. I have started career counseling to find out "what I want to be when I grow up" and the first part of that process was the Myers-Briggs. Finding out a lot about myself and don't feel as crazy as I once did! I pursued acting when younger and I'm also a musician, but never figured I was good enough to make it. Now, I'm starting all over again and as the forever optimist I am starting a band, lol! I am also partnered with a professor and have the ability to go back to school and get a Ph.D (in History I would think - LOVE it!). I have seen a couple of places that say that is a good field for ENFP's, but it's not high on the list. I don't want to put in another boatload of work just to get into another job that will bore me quickly. Any thoughts?