INFP (Careers)

I don't know how to start this post, so I'll just jump in.

INFP is my personality type as dictated by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator test. I happen to think it is the most accurate and profound personality test out there, so if you'd like to take it, go ahead!

Anyway, as I am trying to decide yet again what I want to do with my life (more accurately, how to get there), I decided to look into what would fit my personality type.

Now, in some ways I am proud to be INFP. They're considered "healers" and the type itself is very rare - accounting for about 6% of the population at most. Cool people are INFPs: Phoebe from FRIENDS, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, Princess Diana, Helen Keller, and some say John Lennon. However, we also often get described as emo and we're reportedly "terrified of conflict".

I'd say that I'm sensitive. INFPs are prone to depression, so I'll give them that, but afraid of conflict? No. I am uncomfortable with hurt feelings and resentment, but disagreements are to be explored. I usually only bother if I think someone is wrong from a moral standpoint - also a characteristic of INFPs.

Anyway (it's hard not to go off on tangents), as visionaries and people-readers, it is ideal for us to be writers, clergy workers, missionaries, psychologists, social scientists, social workers, teachers, musicians, or some say artists, librarians, or even physical therapists.

On one hand, it explains why the social sciences come to me so easily. Criminal Justice, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work were a collective breeze. On the other, I have GAD so...

I don't know anymore.

I really love nursing, I just can't work with the patients. I cried the night before each of my clinicals out of fear. I love criminal justice, but it doesn't seem like there would be a job for me in that field - cop wouldn't work for previously mentioned reasons, I'm no scientist so I can't be a labbie, and crime scene technicians seem to be a thing of the past.

All I want is to be a useful person. I want my work to have a positive impact in the lives of others. I want to be comfortable when I go to work (not too much social interaction) and my degree has to be do-able (not too much math or science). Tall order, apparently.