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| Question #1184535938 | Sunday, 15-Jul-2007 |
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| I'm and ENTP female who's not in a science or technology field. I am currently an elementary school teacher looking for a new career. Just wondering what other non-science/IT female ENTP's do for a living? -- CJ |
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| A1 Hello CJ! I'm an ENTp from the media industry. I produce, write, and host a sports and adventure show. I'm also an entrepreneur and a freelance host/writer for various events/magazines. -- marga |
| A2 Hi Marga! Thanks for your response! It is definitely encouraging to hear that you wear so many different hats in your media career. It must keep you on your toes. My partner and I talked about me taking on a new career and writing was one of the possibilities. The host/writer position sounds fascinating, please let me hear your suggestions on how someone like myself can seek out such positions. Many thanks for your input, Marga! -CJ -- Anonymous |
| A3 Hey CJ, I'm an INFP rather than an ENTP, but I know an ENTP who makes a great lawyer. After trying to run her own law firm, she learned the hard way that her strengths are suited for formulating the strategies and ideas rather than staying on top of the busy work and deadlines. Her conclusion was that she should close up shop and find work as a consultant for something that interests her. I would suggests looking into careers where you could utilize you great ability to evaluate your environment and stay away from those which would restrict you to working through a lot of tedious stuff. Good luck! -- Anonymous |
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A4 ENTps are universal, can't really think of what they can't do  -- Anonymous |
| A5 Yep, it's about time to give myself a kick in the b**t to do something to get out of my highly structured and traditional job as a school teacher. I even took career counselling last year, and perhaps, I'm needing a job with more creative potential and room to be innovative. It's not who I am sadly . . . and everything from my colleagues to the school board react soooooo slowly, and I might add, adversely by change. @A3&A4 Thanks for the encouragment and observations. -- Anonymous |
| A6 @A4. How about suicide hotline. Every caller would kill themselves, before the ENTp could finish telling just how great he is himself -- Anonymous |
| A7 CJ, A3 is right regarding the environment evaluation part. ENTPs are natural psychoanalysts and keen observers. We tend to work better once we've seen the big picture first before working in the details. But hey, too much focus on the details might stress you out. The reason why I prefer multi-tasking is because I get bored easily. When I'm bored or stagnating I need something else to do. In essence, my various roles are "escape routes" from each other. I intend to set up my own network in the future; however, I need to keep it varied so that I won't feel stagnant. -- Marga |
| A8 I have a couple of ideas. The first one: go for a walk in a busy part of wherever you live, and just imagine yourself being each person at work. It's extremely boring, but by doing it you might get a better idea of what you want to do, or you might get some kind of subconscious trigger for an idea for a next career. The second idea is to talk to someone at a university. They deal with all kinds of identity crises daily because university students are *always* flip-flopping and doubting their directions, so they might be able to suggest something interesting and exciting for you. Also, make sure you explore weird, wacky careers! If you stick to traditional careers (doctor, lawyer, dentist, entrepreneur, businessman, etc.) you'll almost definitely get bored. As an ENTp, you should be blazing trails where no one can tell you the "right" way to do things and finding areas where you can improvise and explore. Good luck! -- Anonymous |
| A9 Fantastic ideas everyone, I love you all! -- CJ |
| A10 Okay, I'm not an ENTp and watching all of this bloated ENTPism is kind of making me ill. So let's take a time out from the bi-polar frenzy and be useful. Every personality type needs attention. Those that don't think they need attention are merely very selective about the kind of attention they want. Some times also pour attention into themselves, and are usually a few small problems away from a complete mental breakdown. ENTps, however, need an *insane amount of attention* and I've never met one that wasn't flat out pathological in this regard. Whatever career you go into is not going to satisfy you until you deal with the root of this mania. You may be "successful" in the business-sense, and that may appeal to you for a while, but the constant and endless need for attention will knaw at you. And if you don't know what is really going on, you'll probably just do what most ENTps do, which is create chaos, suffering, sadness and then move on to the next job and do the same thing. You can get together with other ENTps and blow bull**** about how you're all "change agents", but deep down inside, you all know what's really going on: your need for attention is *impossible to satisfy from the outside world*. So Marga, if you REALLY want to find a career that makes you happy, go inside and address the need for attention and then, probably, whatever you do will work for you. Otherwise, you'll just be back on this board in a year or so. Life is too short for making mistakes over and over. -- Anonymous |
A11 Funny, A10 is probably an ENTp. Sure, it is true, many ENTp's need insane amounts of attention. As well as ENFp's, ENFj's, ESFp's, INFp's, etc. This is no defining characteristic of an ENTp though, as the more attention you get, the more difficult it is to  so the ones that need attention probably are exceptions to the general rule. However, since there are 6 Billion People on the planet, but only 16 types to choose from, we can probably all find examples in our lives of about 3 or 4 examples of any type with any pathological trait. Please keep this in mind. Oh, and as a general rule, ENTp's aren't all for attention or being liked. Aren't these F traits? Shouldn't that then make them F types? Sure, there are exceptions, but for the most part, ENTp's like T instead of F. Duh. The problems come in when they are led by life experience to value F things instead, which I would say in general, isn't really as satisfying as T to most Tp types. Hidden Agenda? It's really a means to an end. The end is T and not F, or else (say it with me now) they would be F types. -- Reason |
| A12 A10: "Every personality type needs attention. Those that don't think they need attention are merely very selective about the kind of attention they want." Yes. Indeed. -- Anonymous |
| A13 A6, I have a career that you should not be in, no matter what your type is - comedian. On a scale of 1 to 10, ten being totally hilarious and 1 being totally not funny, your comment was a -3. -- econdude |
A14 @A13: Awwww, you INTj's sense of humour is so endearing. You are a funny guy  Now I don't mean your clichéd sarcastic joke, but your reaction. But if you noticed what kind of humour tv-shows contain these days, and what kind of humour actually sells the most. You would notice it's exactly that type. All I should have done to make it better, was to eleborate it more. The type of lame-o jokes that dads tell at birthday parties, they just don't sell. -- Pull my finger |
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