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Originally Posted by TenebrousReflection
I'd be interested in what the research shows for INFPs in this regard (I'm assuming these are lists of fields where these types have found at least above average job satisfaction).
I've been thinking that somethign like Sociology or Cultural Antropology would be a good (fulfilling) area for me to pursue, but the question of what jobs I'd actualy enjoy that such training could lead to is an essential question.
I often think I'd like a job doing research and analyzing test reults and looking for correlations to find new theories/hypothesis and stuff like that, and I'd like it to be something related to human thought/feeling etc, but I'm not sure what jobs like that exist, how common they are, where they are and what training would be required.
Its quite a bit off from humanities, but I've also recently thought something in environmental science could be interesting and fulfilling as well (solar energy, wind farms etc), but I suspect thats the sort of thing I might enjoy for a few years and then grow tired of.
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Psychiatry/psychology is very popular for INFPs. They can also be great in other scientific fields if they're motivated enough by the outcomes to put up with the concrete/sequential aspects of gathering data and creating replicable experiments.
We created these lists to include degreed/nondegreed positions..
INFP
• Counselor
• Education consultant
• English or fine arts teacher
• Fine artist
• Journalist
• Psychologist
• Religious educator
• Social scientist
• Writer, editor
So the pattern is very much humanities but there are definitely NFs in the sciences--working on things exactly like solar energy for the common good.
A lot of NFs I know, though, opted out of hard sciences after a few college classes. A friend of mine lost his interest after an internship taking water samples. Another one, who has a masters in some horticultural area, quit after counting weeds per square foot all summer. I knew I'd be reading, not writing for,
Scientific America after acing the class part but spending hours and hours and hours in chem lab to pass the hands-on lab techniques...