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[ENTP] How should an ENTP choose a career?

Nigel Tufnel

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Can't spell entrepreneur without ENTP.

One thing I'd say about teaching is some ENTPs I know have gotten very frustrated with university bureaucracies and have gone on to use their pHDs as the basis for very successful, independent consultancies.
 

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I have been thinking about starting an account, to make a thread about the best type of job for an ENTP, for awhile now. I'm 18, and really do not know what type of job would be good for me. I have had many ideas, and tend to change my mind every week. I'm not too worried about the future, but would like to see some discussion on the subject.

In the past, I have thought seriously about being a:

*Teacher/Professor
*Businessman (More specifically a self-employed/entrepreneur)
*Author
*Doctor/Psychiatrist
*Lawyer
*Journalist

I usually fit the criteria in the below categories, in no specific order (And the list is probably not complete, but provides a general idea):

*Something that is able to make lots of money, so that I can live comfortably (Travel, Have lots of toys, etc.)
*Something where I am going to have a lot of freedom to move, and not be constrained by schedules, bosses, rules, etc.
*Something where I am able to work with my own themes and ideas, use my mind, and apply that to my work. Something that allows me a lot of creative freedom to work with themes and change things around.
*Something that would be fun to do, and could see myself doing for my entire life.
*Something that is not going to be overbearing and too time consuming, so that I can do other things, and work on other facets of my life.
*Something that changes, and is not incredibly routine.
*Something where I do not have to work within a system, and deal with all the nonsense that goes with it.
*Something that allows me to work with people, but not be stuck with people. I like to be around people, and prefer to work with them versus being stuck in a room by myself. But I am easily annoyed by them, and need a decent amount of alone time, as well. I'm pretty independent.

I like each job in many ways, but tend to find faults in each of them and become discouraged, causing me to switch what I want to do and never fully make up my mind. I understand I am 18 and in no big hurry, but my future is something I think about, and does bother me incredibly.

Can anyone provide me with some general insights on how an ENTP should best pick careers? Can I here some things to avoid/look for, or some real life experiences? Any dicussion is good discussion. (I probably will not take much of this threat to heart, sadly, and will still have to figure it out on my own. But it will still provide my one more resource in making a decision. Whenever I make it.)

I'm the same way. I'm getting a masters in accounting and stick out like a sore thumb in all my accounting classes (though this is usually a source of pride for me). I want pretty much the same thing you want in a job, realizing that i went for something that goes completely against my nature.

Intuition is the greatest asset you have, balance that with a degree that proves your logical/analytical abilities and the windows of opportunities will be limitless!
 

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Do you guys have much experience with teaching as an ENTP?

4 years into a teaching career (grades 7-12, Technology Ed. & English), and I'm coming to the cold hard realization that happy teachers are creatures of repetition when dealing with students, course prep, course delivery, administrative paperwork, phone calls to parents, ...

I got into this gig thinking:
  • I would make a difference in my students' lives
  • I would have variety in my courses
  • I would have students that actually wanted to learn what I had to teach (e.g. computer programming, animation, digital video, etc.)
  • I would be a happier dad/husband with a steady job (public school = union)

What I didn't realize was:
  • Yes, I impacted 10%-30% of my students, but only while the software / camera was new and "coooooool". With today's students, that wears off in about an hour.
  • Yes, I have variety in my courses, as they are constantly being changed (and sometimes, even with my input!). Of course, as one senior teacher told me, it's much easier after you've taught the same course for 3-4 years, and then you can just pull the next teaching unit from the filing cabinet. If this sounds like a good idea to you, then you haven't thought through that the average ENTP won't last the first 3 years teaching the same thing.
  • The majority of my students took my course because they thought it would be an easy credit (and were avoiding geography, history, foods, phys. ed., etc.). The next group took it because they liked me because I wasn't strict and didn't like to send students to the office for discipline. (Works great for ENTP kids, which are 5% of your population. In other words, the vast majority of students thought my discipline is a joke.) And, in other words, 2-4 students in each class actually wanted to learn what I was teaching. The most common comment I heard was, "Is this good enough to get a 50% on this assignment?" Don't ask me what personality thrives in this environment, but it sure isn't ENTP.
  • If I was a happy employee / dad / husband, then I wouldn't have been trawling the net looking to find careers that make an ENTP happy. So, full props to Google for directing me to this forum.

One other weird thing about teaching: here in Canada, it's hard to get into the public school system and get a good contract. And once you do get in, the expectation is that you'll stay in your little region and teach the same thing for ~30 years.

So, if you're looking to be a happy teacher, be comfortable with routine and be confident that you can make a difference with students who won't appreciate what you have to teach them. Otherwise, find a magical school where the teenagers actually want to learn!

Oh, the good part of teaching is that my colleagues are awesome and really different from me (although I often avoid the staffroom, as would be obvious to most high school teachers). And if you coach or run a club, then you have a chance to work with teens who actually want to be there. I've coached basketball and 'facilitated' the robotics club, and they were both fantastic. However, you don't need to be a teacher to volunteer with these, so that's what I'm considering for the future.

Sorry to be...
Grumpy
 
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How should an ENTP choose a career?

Don't. You don't have too.

ENTP is the "Renaissance Man" type. You can have several careers - at times simultaneously - in a lifetime. And you'll do well at all of them. Damn you.
 

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a roll of dices?
 

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The most important thing I would tell an ENTPer is don't ingnore your need to be creative and innovative. Don't underestimate your desire to be autonomous or experience frequent radical change. You don't need to limit yourself to obvious career choices.
Your need for adventure, challenge and new scenes is an integral part of your personality and is valid, valid, valid. Don't ever let anyone persuade you otherwise, or you'll end up committed to a lifestyle that kills who you are slowly from the inside.

Thanks to everyone at this thread, especially Fiver and substitute. I had my wife read it, and she said your posts on page 4 helped her realize that her husband isn't crazy. You people are saving my marriage! Thanks so much!
 

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Thanks to everyone at this thread, especially Fiver and substitute. I had my wife read it, and she said your posts on page 4 helped her realize that her husband isn't crazy. You people are saving my marriage! Thanks so much!
4 pages, saving your mariage ?
that's entp work for you mister ^^

I'll check it out later, right now i'm planning to smoke.:D
 

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Lol that was precisely why I thought I could be an Ne primary user.
And the only ENTP that I know is bisexual, curiously.
Are you talking about yourself ?
Be my bisexual frriieend!!
 

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4 pages, saving your mariage ?
that's entp work for you mister ^^
Yeah, sad but true. My ISFJ wife is tired of moving every ~3 years and didn't understand my constant desire for change. Now, she says, "If you really think that way, then ... ."

Happily ever after's don't happen, but at least we can start conversations remembering how different we are. :thinking:
 

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I'm in engineering - I enjoy it enough, but my biggest problem is that I'm much (much much much) better at coming up with solutions than I am at implementing them... Once the problem is solved, my drive goes right down the shitter. :( A typical design project might take 6 months to a year, with only maybe a month of actual creative/innovative "designing". The rest of the time is spent cranking out the details (narsty things!!) to convince yourself & others that the design will in fact, work. INTJ actually strikes me as best suited to this type of work, tbh.

I'm thinking lately I'd like to somehow get into project management type work- I come up with the idea, someone else makes it happen. :D
 

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This whole "pick a career" topic has been something that's been on my mind for years and years and years... mostly I was met with compromise as I didn't properly seek out something that made my heart sing!

I definitely feel it's important to love what I do (be obsessed about it [in a good way]) and my newest job seems to fit many of my most important needs beautifully.

I deliver flowers.

Not what I'd have predicted for a career choice way back in high school... and especially unlikely after 2 college diplomas...

But I absolutely LOVE this job... for many reasons:

  • I earn cash (and get paid quite decently)
  • I start each day at 1pm (which fits my lifestyle great considering my brain seems to wake up after midnight) and usually only work 5 or 6 hours
  • I choose my route creatively... (and stop and play a round of disc golf whenever I'm beside a course)
  • It's results-oriented... as long as people get their flowers, everyone's happy
  • I get instant feedback from customers (in the form of cash tips occasionally... but often a fun experience of some kind)
  • I deliver all over the lower mainland in British Columbia (a place I just moved to a year and a half ago, which is a paradise to explore!)
  • I'm met with smiling faces all day long (no one seems to give flowers to @ssholes fortunately ;))
  • I love driving!
  • and maybe most importantly... my mind is free to think about whatever I want... so I download music, audiobooks, seminars, etc to my mp3 player and learn as I earn each day! :)

I've delivered a few other things in college... pizzas, chicken wings/ribs, booze... it's nice not to have food stinking up the car! Delivering alcohol is a great gig for a couple reasons: drunk people tip more! :D and it's a great reminder not to become like them (especially the "regulars"... who never tip anyways because they "can't afford to" - nice eh?)

I'd never work as a cab driver... hate the idea of sitting around doing nothing (aka waiting for a customer), and also hate the idea of having people in the car sidetracking all my productive thinking time.

The next evolution in jobs will entail creating some time freedom... I wish driving around didn't take up quite so much time (especially since I just became a dad on Valentine's Day last week!!). I'm trying to come up with a business model that's internet-based and automated... more as a safety net than anything - so that if I choose to work I can, and if not I can do whatever. I like the idea of earning Cdn or US $$$ but spending it somewhere tropical that happens to be cheap to live in the Winter! (feel free to speak to me about any collaborations if you're in harmony with what I'm saying here)

Reading these posts is definitely like being with family...

As my education has developed its own curriculum I find that it all leads back to learning about "me"... getting to know myself better. Everything else seems to stem from that initial understanding. It seems like something I'd know intimately well and yet the more I learn, the more my ignorance is exposed. lol
 

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Most entps will find their way to the top in career aspirations. those that failed will be at the lowest bottom. I rarely see they get stuck in the middle like in the SJ zones. Its pretty extreme , either in the higest end or the lowest.
 

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Most entps will find their way to the top in career aspirations. those that failed will be at the lowest bottom. I rarely see they get stuck in the middle like in the SJ zones. Its pretty extreme , either in the higest end or the lowest.

very true
 

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Alright, I actually had to sign up to the forum so I could reply to this, it's probably stupidly old by now but that's fine.

First off, wanted to say thanks for the post since it actually did provide a great deal of information and helped me with choosing a career for my own self. So yay to that!

Secondly, or lastly? Well probably secondly, I doubt I'll maintain attention span long enough for this to be the end of it... oh well, anyways! Secondly(ish): I'd also like to note that with a bit of careful though on the matter, I've come up with a slightly modified rule that I used myself.



Due to the ENTP's standard inability to sit still on a single topic for very long, it helps to pick a basic field of study/work to focus on, especially one which can lead to constant changes.

For example, I myself ended up going with 3D game art design, but primarily, this has several branching effects which's whot makes it so useful. If I had to do the same thing EVERY DAY for YEARS, well I'd go insane. If it weren't too late already that is... but anyways, the point is that I can start off with level design, move to character design, and then these branch out further as well; character design can split into several categories from just the animation aspects of a model already made, to creating a character's personality, dialogue, appearance and so on, while level design can also branch off into things such as actual level layout, to enemy design, bosses, from how a boss looks and moves, to whot kind of methods they employ in offensive and defensive, relating to how one needs to combat them. In the mindset of a MMORPG for example, this can mean an immense number of things to cover, even stuff like special effects like explosions or spells, to a gradual move from graphics design to balance, AI design, and so on. Chances are, 30-40 years from now I could still be in the same field yet covering completely different tasks every year. Toss in that every game itself is different, especially with newer technology and such being added constantly... I mean they now use 3d instead of 2d, dvd's instead of cartridges, in the past 20-30 years alone the design process has grown incredably to the point that it's unrecognizeable as the same field any longer. This kind of thing is PERFECT for an ENTP.

As such, here's my personal list of things that is required for my own decisions on such:

- multiple fields closely related; need to be able to change when yeu get bored with one

- growing trends; if yeu're stuck doing the same job forever, it had better change and adapt over the years; technology is great for this currently, sciences help but can quickly grow boring due to next part

- less paperwork; I personally find I NEED to spend time DOING stuff, as much as I love writing, noone cares about a 15 page essay that pretends to be a status report. An ENTP may love something like astronomy, but it can quickly grow tiresome with the scientific process, since there's so many rigid rules to follow, in order, documented repeatedly at each step. This quickly turns into mundane repetition and kills the desire to continue, this's the main reason I ended up ditching the particle physicist line of thinking... sure I have some nice theories and stuff I'd LOVE to test... but the reality is I'd grow too bored with it

- Chaos. Seriously, it has to have an element of unpredictability to it, if yeu don't find yeurself having to think on yeur feet, yeu're screwed. I actually enjoyed my time working at a call center for cable tv repair, because every call was completely different. Even a 'typical' call could quickly go weird... someone who doesn't listen well, is kind of ...'slow'... or just bizzare circumstances (had one where it was uhm... 'fun' trying to get someone to reprogram a remote via relay across the house... phone downstairs, remote and tv upstairs... 3 people shouting directions given over the phone across the house like some weird echo o_O ). Anything that maintains that there will be something NEW happening every few moments, or at least unexpected to the point of not being able to concieveably prepare for it is for the best.

- Fun. Period. It doesn't matter how much monies it pays, if yeu HATE doing it, then wth are yeu doing it for? Yeu work TO live, not live to work, per sam starfall. If yeu HATE yeur work, yeu're going to be grumpy when yeu get home, and it'll just keep adding over and over until yeu flat out don't care and get pissy about every little thing. Living yeur life that way won't work. It has to be something yeu enjoy doing. Note that it's WORK though. This won't be perfect; if it were fun 100% of the time they'd charge yeu to do it, not pay yeu, so there has to be some aspect which's annoying enough that it sucks, but it doesn't mean yeu should be willing to accept something that's 100% suck instead of 20% suck. Go with something yeu like doing. As an ENTP yeu're good at pretty much everything anyway, so it's not like yeu can't get into the business whotever it is.

- Creativity. ENTP's are known especially for their desire to 'make' something, though this's actually a misnomer I believe... it's not the "MAKING" part that's important, so much as the showing it off part... specifically, making a pretty vase from pottery's useless unless that vase can be given to a customer who appreciates it and finds enjoyment in it. As a whole we like to show off indirectly, and love to affect others positively, or bend them to our way of thinking. Earlier in this very thread, someone posted they tried teaching because they wanted to be able to have an impact on kid's lives, and let them learn... this's our ultimate goal, whether we realize it or not, is to be able to get people to see things from our point of view, or see things how we envison them. A degree of creativity is required for this however; if yeu're stuck in a rigid orderly cycle, then this ability is cramped and can't be let loose. For the previous example, the school board has rules which mean yeu HAVE to teach certain things every. Single. Year. Over and over and over. Yeu HAVE to ask certain questions on tests, yeu HAVE to proove yeu've taught the kids certain required things, and yeu HAVE to follow alot of strict rules to make sure that the learning is more or less evenly distributed... yeu don't want to have a case where kids who take two courses (say math 10) where it's 50/50 which teacher they get... if they get the 'good' teacher, they'll learn far more by default, if they get the 'bad' teacher they won't learn a thing. They go quite far out of their way to prevent this, to the point of actually restricting the good teachers to make it so it's not so imbalanced, as dumb as that is. This's another reason why I avoided the physics thing... only real jobs available are teaching classes, and I know I couldn't do that.

- Freedom. Seriously, if yeu lock an ENTP in with strict rules, and don't let them do it their way, they're just going to find a way to bend the rules or just flat out ignore them anyway. In many jobs this will eventually just lead to getting fired, or high tensions with management. The ONLY reason I didn't get fired from my call center work was because I was way too good at whot I did and they couldn't afford to ditch me, despite that I completely ignored half their arbitrary rules, going with the spirit of the law, rather than the letter of the law, and perverting the letter of it to fit the spirit. This annoyed management to no end, and as the client kept getting more and more restrictive, eventually I would've been fired had it not been for medical issues which forced me to leave early (not being able to speak at all for about 6 months kind of kills ones' ability to talk on a phone for some reason, go figure). The point, is that if yeu don't have freedom to do things yeur way, it's going to piss yeu off to no end, and yeu're just going to do it yeur way in the end anyways, because let's be truthful with ourselves here... we don't handle rules well. Especially restrictive ones. We get more and more annoyed at being restricted in our options until eventually it just snaps and we don't care anymore and do it our way anyways. Tell an artist they're only allowed to paint with the colour grey, they'll find all sorts of ways to use multiple greys to make sketches and nighttime scenes, get annoyed at them for that and restrict it more and more until they're not allowed to do anything but show a blank canvas and are not allowed to use any material at all to affect it, and they'll start clawing at it with their nails to leave imprints. Restrict them from touching it and they'll stop caring and go back to just drawing as they please. Yeu can only restrict people in general so far, but ENTP's, being especially creative and disliking restrictions, are more susceptable than most to this.

- Less order. I know my desk is a mess, I know where stuff is on my desk, it's carefully organized in my own 'organized chaos' mess of things, but to a casual observer it's a nightmare. They'll have to live with that. If I try to be organized, I loose things, and will end up wasting far more time and effort on trying to make things look tidy, and most of the time will cut corners, shoving papers into a drawer or whotever. Give me paperwork to do, and I'll take every opportunity to expand my answers... I don't like neat, tidy 'orderly' yes/no questions... the questions can be listed in such a way that the individual questions, or those as a whole, can lack severe amounts of highly important information. I had an optional survey I did once that was all yes/no questions, and by the end of it I was just in awe at how poorly it was set up... my answers ended up making me sound like a pedophile by the end because of how it was organized, with no margin for explaination or clarification. Order is inherantly bad in that it requires limiting things down to a very specific set of possibilities, there's no possible way to maintain order in 500 open ended questions, yeu need to break it down into careful restrictions. This can be used to good effect sometimes, but mostly those're in cases of suggestive selling and witch hunts a la "do yeu like carrots, or prefer to BURN THE AMERICAN FLAG AND EAT BABIES!?" okei... uhm... I like raw carrots but not cooked ones, ZOMG HERETIC! But yeah, having things be less restrictive and rigidly ordered gives far more capability for an ENTP to carry forth their bizzare ideas... generally they're very good ideas, but difficult to explain, and the individual themself is far more interested in working on the solution than in trying to explain themselves every step of the way. Quick (alright semi quick) personal example; I do math weirdly in my head... ask me whot 11x27 is and I won't be doing it normally at all... instead of writing it out 11x7 + 11x20, it's going to be more like 10x30 (300) +1x30 (30) for 330, then remove 11x3 (33), which's rounded to 330-30, for 300, then -3, so yes the answer is 297, and I can do that in my head faster than someone can write it out traditionally. The problem is, if I write down anything at all, the only thing yeu'll see on my paper is 300, 33, 297, because those're the only numbers I need, the first two just being placeholders so that I can remember where I was. This drives math teachers insane because they have absolutely no clue whot the thought process is, or where those numbers came from, and if I write the whole thing out I'll run out of time because there's many extra steps taken compared to most people, so when I was in high school, I was told on my tests to "show my work" endlessly... problem is, if I showed my work, because of the lengthy procedures, I would run out of time and not finish the test. If I didn't show it, the teacher would get pissy and just mark everything wrong for not showing how I got the answer. It's loose-loose, despite it being more accurate, and faster than the traditional method. This type of problem solving is fairly common to ENTP's I've since realized, though maybe not in that exact way. The general problem though is that ENTP's will usually do things in a very effecient, but roundabout method which's difficult to comprehend, and they hate having to explain themselves while they're busy doing it; ask them AFTER and sure they'd just LOVE to go into detail and show yeu the thought process behind it step by step, as they like showing off and teaching people, but they HATE having to stop in the middle of something they're working on to explain it. I know that I, at least, get more than a little irate when interrupted with questions, since my mind just didn't get properly developed in terms of speech... I can multitask a dozen things at a time easy... but not speaking. It takes all my concentration to try to form sentances due to the mind wandering aimlessly constantly, and the mind comming up with new concepts far faster than the lips can keep up with the speech part of it. As such, this usually turns into just drifting off, loosing my place, and having no clue whot I was talking about mere seconds before very frequently. Or if trying to do anything else at all, having to stop it entirely to answer a simple question as I can't work on the speaking and doing part simultaniously. But while that's a personal example, the concept is true to many other ENTP's... being forced to stop one task temporarily to concentrate on another will often lead to irritation due to often pouring all attention and focus on a single topic. We're very prone to not finishing whot we start, and the largest reason that I've personally seen, is due to interruptions. Anything from being forced to write a status report, to the neccessity to sleep or eat, all detract from a deep level of intense thought. Once yeu've lost that state of epiphany, it's probably gone for good. As such, orderly 'must do everything in an organized method' is a very very very bad thing, as it immediately restricts our strongest aspects of our nature, primarily the ability to work on the fly, and come up with grotesquely creative concepts. Forcing rigid order upon us strangles the biggest advantages we have, which just makes us feel like crap that we're not living up to our potential, and not allowed to do our best work. Unfortunately, we're so rare that most people aren't used to having to deal with this, and those that do, rarely ever learn the problem as we ourselves rarely understand it fully. This generally means that we're dumped into traditional methods of organization and expected to excel, and instead flop about helplessly in the confined little space. Give us the room we need to work, and break away the arbitrary restrictions, and genious can emerge, but add too many chains and the only creativity yeu're going to see is how deftly we manage to break the chains and twist logic against our captor. But then all our energy is focused on breaking free of the rules that bind us that we can't spend that energy on actually DOING the stuff we're supposed to be doing. This defeats the whole purpose... so yeah, make absolutely sure that WHOTEVER job yeu get, that yeu stay AWAY from anything that is heavily restrictive on intense order... status reports, managers that expect things to be done in an exacting procedure, anything of the sort has to be avoided at all costs. Especially if those things are NEEDED. If yeu try to work at something that requires following specific rules TO THE LETTER or else it becomes highly dangerous... well... keep an ENTP way the hell away from that or there's going to be problems, especially if they get bored.



...Is it just me or are each of these getting progressively more ranty with each point added? Huh... I think Imma stop here before I dig myself into a hole XD

Anyways, those're mostly my opinions, take and leave as yeu will ^.^
 

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Haha, I signed up for this forum just to post to this specific topic as well!

I've had an extremely difficult time until this point finding work that interested me. Every time I am in a situation where someone is my boss, or someone has direct control over me, or where someone is constantly asking me for updates to what I'm doing, or really, when ANYONE tells me what to do -- I go absolutely fucking crazy! So much so that in every job I've, I look for every loophole, and every "unethical" chance I get to fuck over the company I work for or get away with doing what I want.

Until working as a substitute teacher, and as a political canvassser, I was unable to find work that I enjoyed. I did everything, from barista to shipping and receiving. I worked as a driver for a pimp. That was a cool job: I got to do whatever I wanted, I could smoke weed all day, I got free drugs, and I made a percentage of the girls' wage after every pickup, so I was making more money than I knew what to do with. I couldn't take, though, the extreme manipulation and "control," that all the other people had over these girls, though. That's the only reason I left that job.

My ultimate goal is this:

I would like to, after college, to travel and produce music. I'd like to stay 6 months at a time in different countries learning the language, music and women of the country. I also love teaching, so my degree in English will help with with English teaching jobs as I am on my travels. Additionally, I'd like to have a self promotional blog for my music that nets me some money every month, so that way I can chill out in some cool, low-income countries with a cool party scene. Argentina, perhaps?

How I have it set up right now is fucking sweet:

I work for a political firm, and I have absolutely no supervision, and I have a van that the company pays for. I am able to get my work done in 1 hour, and while I'm supposed to be, "working," I'm going to college. When my classes end, I go to substitute teach a class in a high school, which nets me $50 for just showing up. I also sell weed. I make around $800-1500 a week, which is about 5-7 times more than any other college student I know.

I would like to, after college, to travel and produce music. I, like a lot of people, would love nothing more than to run around meeting people, getting drunk, dancing, singing, playing instruments, having sex, getting high, and doing crazy shit. This "recklessness" is what defines me as a person. The fact I have to create these crazy ass systems to get money just so I can bang a drum all day and get drunk frustrates me a lot.

I also love teaching, so my degree in English will help with with English teaching jobs as I am on my travels. Additionally, I'd like to have a self promotional blog for my music that nets me some money every month, so that way I can chill out in some cool, low-income countries with a cool party scene. Argentina, perhaps? This website would also fulfill some minor "fame" points for me if I could get it working correctly.


All of these combined make me so full of joy and confidence in myself! Reasons:

-I have absolutely no supervision. No one ever tells me what to do, and if they do, I don't listen, and do it my way, and amrewarded because I work for a political firm that wants results and doesn't care how they come about.

-I can take vacations whenever I want. WHENEVER. I am never required to work for the school district, I am able to take a break from politics with so much as a word, and no one is going to miss me if I can't sell them weed, they can find it elsewhere.

-I get to dress in a style that makes me confident. Something about wearing ties and polos and dress pants and dress shoes. It transfers over all of my jobs, too. I look regal for politics, professor - ly for school, and I don't look like a drug dealer. I play music and shit, too, so with a quick little twist my clothes are rock star like and ironic.

-I have safefalls. If I ever get caught for being a joker at the political firm, (I haven't for 2 and a half years) I'll just go to full time substitute teaching. That's still a $500/wk job where I do nothing, at least if I teach a high school class. I like teaching high school classes because I can just do my homework during work or network during work. (If I am teaching younger kids, I actually do my job...I feel like I need to make an impact on them.) The substitute system here works in a way where I pick which school, and which class I want to teach every day, so I'm never stuck in the same place. If something ever happened with teaching, like I somehow got fired from every school in the district, I can just fall back on selling weed.

-On the days I don't have college, I basically get paid to joyride in a completely paid-for minivan, where I generally just smoke blunts, record music, and pick up girls.

-I meet and interact with tons of different people every day. The combination of going out into public for politics, speaking my mind in school, seeing how young kids interact in high school, and the power and connections that come from selling weed all culminate into a feeling that is so satisfying. But it's not enough!

-The most important thing about this is that I also have time for myself. I can foster a meaningful relationship, I can play music, I can play video games if I want. The best part about how I have things set up is that I have time to go out at night with money in my pocket, making all the "work" (hahahah!) worthwhile.
 

Tamske

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Recognize your recurring interests, do something with them.

I was interested in physics, so I studied physics, not worrying about what I would do with it to earn money.
Afterwards, it seemed I was smart enough to start graduate. So I did, being curious about string theory. During my graduate years, I felt quite bad about them - lacking deadlines, getting isolated, doing a lot of work without results... The only thing I liked were my hours as teaching assistant. Conclusion: I got a teacher's degree. I'm now a quite happy physics/maths teacher and I try to become a professional writer...
 

Bowie

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Someone above said something about ENTPs loving to create, and for me, this is extremely true. I'm about to graduate from my University with a Studio Art degree. Good thing I don't care too much about money :D I honestly wish I could stay in school forever, and I'm going to try to stick it out as long as I can. I plan to go back and get my second bachelors in Photography, and after that, I'm determined to do whatever it takes to make a living off of that. I'm also close to a Philosophy minor, so I would like to finish that off as well.

For awhile I considered being a Philosophy Major and doing law, but once I got into the law portion of things, I'd get bored stiff. I'd love to be a Chem major, but I don't really want to make a career out of it. So Art and Photography it is :D
 
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