Of course there are always exceptions to every rule....and maturity, experience, and compromise play a big role.

I'm interested in a lot of jobs and can't decide. I've discovered that it's not that I'm particularly good at them [well, some, maybe] but that I'm interested in the concept, in potential things that I could do to...change the world, y'know? I think even working as a cashier would be fun, what with the interaction and the ability to restock and...price stickers! xD I can always find something interesting about a job and then I'll want to do it, but I'm not very practical about it. More of a pipe dream, but it feels like so much more than a pipe dream...

One of my friends suggested that I be a "job counselor" or sorts. People who are tired or unmotivated with their jobs could come in and I could help them discover that 'spark' again, inspire them to do better, etc. Because I can see all of these interesting things that might've passed them by, or could encourage them to find that aspect in their jobs, etc. I can communicate that to them, I guess. That or advise them to quit. xD I'd like feeling like I'm improving the quality of people's lives.

Except the problem with that is that I don't necessarily want to only help others--I think I'd feel like I was helping their lives, but not really producing anything of my own, nothing substantial. [Which is why I don't really want to be an editor, because I'm only improving others' work, not creating my own. But I think I'd be good at it? I dunno, you can judge my grammatical skills. ] And besides, is there really a job like that?

I feel like typing up a list of my dream jobs. Be prepared for it. Or not; I might forget about it. xD Ah well.

I want to be a lawyer. There are so many doors that open to a person who has a law degree, from litigation to public office. I figure that if I want to make the most change in society, I should become a lawyer.

Posted By Sakari on 23 Apr 2010 10:33 AM

I'm interested in a lot of jobs and can't decide. I've discovered that it's not that I'm particularly good at them [well, some, maybe] but that I'm interested in the concept, in potential things that I could do to...change the world, y'know? I think even working as a cashier would be fun, what with the interaction and the ability to restock and...price stickers! xD I can always find something interesting about a job and then I'll want to do it, but I'm not very practical about it. More of a pipe dream, but it feels like so much more than a pipe dream...

One of my friends suggested that I be a "job counselor" or sorts. People who are tired or unmotivated with their jobs could come in and I could help them discover that 'spark' again, inspire them to do better, etc. Because I can see all of these interesting things that might've passed them by, or could encourage them to find that aspect in their jobs, etc. I can communicate that to them, I guess. That or advise them to quit. xD I'd like feeling like I'm improving the quality of people's lives.

Except the problem with that is that I don't necessarily want to only help others--I think I'd feel like I was helping their lives, but not really producing anything of my own, nothing substantial. [Which is why I don't really want to be an editor, because I'm only improving others' work, not creating my own. But I think I'd be good at it? I dunno, you can judge my grammatical skills. ] And besides, is there really a job like that?

I feel like typing up a list of my dream jobs. Be prepared for it. Or not; I might forget about it. xD Ah well.

OH MY GOD.  You seriously are taking the words out of my brain and putting them on this forum for everyone else to read!  HOLY CRAP.  Ok, so the part about helping others but having that conflict with your own self expression and creation -- I feel that exact same tug!  Like, should I do something about starving people, join the peace corps, become a career counselor, or should I write books and poetry and sing songs at pubs?  I honestly thought it was super bad of me to NOT want to help people and go and be selfish and create art -- but who said you couldn't create something that helps people?  For me that is my ideal occupation, whatever that is.  I will constantly be in search of this, and I know it's a hard task, but at least I know what it looks like.  My search for the right job can be likened to an investigators search of a murderer.  And now at least I have a picture of the guy who did it.

And the whole thing about not being good at jobs that I've been in so far, I can totally relate.  I just don't think I'd be good at most of those arduous, low paying, labor and quick thinking cashier jobs if that makes any sense.  I feel like I"d be all over the place and everything would think I was flighty and blonde and that I should be fired.  So I'm just gonna stick with going to college and see how that goes

I love oh so much that there is a reason for my madness.  Oh man. 

I frequently fantasize about becoming a fantasy or children's book author who also directs movies based on the books he writes!

ENFPs are all about EXPRESSION. A dream job is anything that lets us express all the crazy ideas that our insane Intuition comes up with.