Career, not Job. Work, not Labour

I want a CAREER, not a job. I need WORK, not labour.

A career suggests progression, incentives, recognition and most importantly, passion. Whereas a job meant something you hold down just to get the money to pay your bills and pass time.

Work involves creativity, as opposed to the daily drudgery of labour. I think it's very cruel to make humans do labour. So mindless and so bo-liao.

Me thinking long and hard (again... have been thinking for years... made many wrong choices in life...) about my career and my work. I want a progressive career and I want creative work. My job is boring ... ...

Anyway, I bettter not digress... bad habit. Check out what the career choices for INFJs entail. Me seriously thinking about doing career counselling for students also, just so that less people would make stupid decisions like the younger me.


Career Choices for INFJs

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-young adult (is he refering to me?) trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits which will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to pick a career which you will find rewarding.

INFJs generally have the following traits:
Intuitively understand people and situations
Idealistic
Highly principled (Yupz!)
Complex and deep (Yupz!)
Natural leaders
Sensitive and compassionate towards people (Maybe a little too over sensitive... not something that I am proud of...)
Service-oriented (Yupz! That's why I love ushering.)
Future-oriented
Value deep, authentic relationships
Reserved about expressing their true selves
Dislike dealing with details unless they enhance or promote their vision (On the contrary, I think I am pretty detailed... or am I merely promoting my vision? haha!)
Constantly seeking meaning and purpose in everything (yupz! which contributes to my constant mental battles about life... which started since secondary school... at that time, as teenager, I could confide in no one about my crazy thoughts. My friends seemed more preoccupied about school and BG relationships. Whereas I was already thinking about "meaning of life"... too precocious a child I was. But... that's where I found my God!)
Creative and visionary
Intense and tightly-wound
Can work logically and rationally - use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it

The INFJ is a special individual (I is special...) who needs more out of a career than a job. They need to feel as if everything they do in their lives is in sync with their strong value systems - with what they believe to be right. Accordingly, the INFJ should choose a career in which they're able to live their daily lives in accordance with their deeply-held principles, and which supports them in their life quest to be doing something meaningful. Since INFJs have such strong value systems, and persistent intuitive visions which lend them a sense of "knowing", they do best in positions in which they are leaders, rather than followers. Although they can happily follow individuals who are leading in a direction which the INFJ fully supports, they will very unhappy following in any other situation.

The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an INFJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed. (Wah, got put disclaimer one ah? "Cover backside" tactic. Haha!)

Possible Career Paths for the INFJ:
Clergy / Religious Work
Teachers
Medical Doctors / Dentists
Alternative Health Care Practitioners, i.e. Chiropractor, Reflexologist
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Counselors and Social Workers
Musicians and Artists
Photographers
Child Care / Early Childhood Development

okie... more on liuxue's crazy thots to come!