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[ISTP] ISTP Career Interest

sLiPpY

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Found a list of careers I felt more vibed as to giving variety and clarity to career considerations. For fun, thought the next post would be on one's I'd already done, what I thought of them.

Examples of careers often chosen by your type as a career personality profile fit include:

•Farmer
•Military Officer or Enlistee
•Electrical Engineer
•Electrical Technician
•Coal Miner
•Transportatikon Operator
•Dental Hygienist
•Construction, Warehouse, Groundskeeper
•Mechanic
•Legal Secretary
•Cleaning Service Worker
•Surveyor
•Corrections Officer
•Carpenter
•Construction Worker
•Steelworker
•Cook
•Small Business Manager
•Physician: Pathology
•Mechanical Engineer
•Craft Worker
•Computer Programmer
•Law Enforcement
•Lawyer
•Engineering
•Optometrist
•City Works Technician
•Media Specialist
•Dental Assistant
•Federal Manager
•Machine Worker
•Regional Utilities Manager
•Commputer Professional
•Physical therapist
•Fire Dept. Manager
•Engineering: All Categories
•Social Services Administration
•Lawyer or Judge
•Public Manager
•Accountatnt
•Govt. Manager
•Typist
•Guard
•Respiratory Therapist
•Computer Operations & Systems
•School Bus Driver
•Storekeeper
•Corporate Manager
•Adult Education Teacher
•Coaching

Your type is found much less often in and attracted less by work characterized as requiring a great deal of nurturing work, relationship-oriented work and/or work that requires attention to more highly theoretical, abstract and symbolic material such as:

•Pollice Detective
•Director of Religious Education
•Student Personnel Administration (college)
•Journalist
•Education Consultant
•Aeronauticall Engineer
•Clerical Supervisor
•Biology Scientist
•Actor
•Research Assistant
•Nursing & Public Health
•Dentist
•Receptionist
•Pre-School Teacher
•Fine Artist
•Architect
•Psychodrama Therapist (pshychology)
•Crisis Counselor
•Occupational Therapist
•Religious Order Lay Member

ISTP Personality Mechanical, Realistic, Independent
 

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•Farmer - When I was a kid, loved collecting eggs, feeding the pigs, driving the tractor.
•Military Officer or Enlistee - almost but backed out when the only school they would guarantee me is Nuclear Engineering. Pay would have been awesome post service, but yuck!
•Electrical Technician - I can rough wire a house and troubleshooting any electrical problem.
•Transportation Operator - Bush Gardens Tampa, loved it.
•Construction, Warehouse, Groundskeeper - Temp jobs when younger and enjoyed.
•Mechanic - Only on my own or a friends vehicle
•Cook - Weekend gig as a cook for a juvenile home. Got canned after kids complained that the food wasn't as good during the week.
•Computer Programmer - coding back in the day sucked, no likey.
•Lawyer - very knowlegable on probate legal issues, wouldn't want to be one though.
•Computer Professional - current occupation and for many years, want a change now.
•Typist - did a stint of production data/entry, wasn't bad...could mentally disengage.
•Computer Operations & Systems - current profession
•Storekeeper - worked in a drug store. Enjoyed it a lot.
•Corporate Manager - sucked into entry management type positions, hated it each time.
•Coaching - enjoyed coaching sports here and there.
 

Kingfisher

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that seems like a good list. i like the gist of it.
here are a couple others that seem like ISTP type jobs to me:
  • equipment operator (operating backhoes, excavators, cranes, etc.)
  • fishing ship
  • sawmill jobs
  • forest service, or park ranger

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sLiPpY

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Nice additions Kingfisher, I used to wonder what it'd be like to be a longshoreman, or work on a fishing ship...or an oil rig. Or a tug boat, etc.
 

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What the hell is a "Religious Order Lay Member?" :shock:
 

sLiPpY

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That one kind of made me wonder too? Like maybe it'd be more interesting to be on the frontline vs. behind the desk?
 

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That one kind of made me wonder too? Like maybe it'd be more interesting to be on the frontline vs. behind the desk?

They have accountant on that list. Accounting is really unacceptable to me.
 

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Yeh, me too...excepting maybe Forensic Accounting
 

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Yeh, me too...excepting maybe Forensic Accounting

I think I'm more okay with auditors and fraud examiners myself, which is really more detective than accounting.....

The site listed them for ISTJs though. I say it's biased! :steam:
 

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I was expecting for comics draftsman, stuntman, porn star, martial master, streap-tease girls trainer, superball champion, god of the cinema, or rock star sex-symbol but there's not. I'm very disapointed!:steam:
 

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The ISTP I know is currently doing a course in culinary arts, but she's bored of it. She's signing up to a course in Spanish language.

She also looked into criminal-esque courses, like criminal justice. The accounting module put her off, though. Then she considered the armed forces, but passed on it.

I don't think she's career-minded? The courses are probably a way to pass the time constructively whilst widening her options in terms of job-seeking.
 

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Anything consitant would get boring. I need constant change. Thats what I like about technician or mechanic. Its always new projects, new problems. I would love to get into custom car stereo or custom engine builds as those fields are always pushing the bar in what can be done in a field I enjoy(music and fast).

Computer programming(which I do) keeps me thinking, but I lack the physical portion that I desire where custom stereo and custom engine builds provide the push knowledge wise and the physical, hands on portion that I enjoy. It has to be custom though as I like to push the bar higher and higher in what I can accomplish. The job portion as opposed to owning my own business would be because I dont want to focus on defining some goal, but on the actual hands on work and knowledge to complete a goal. I dont want to manage, I want to work.
 

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They have accountant on that list. Accounting is really unacceptable to me.

:laugh:

Farmer: I still fantasize about moving out West and being a ranch hand somewhere.

Military: I think I could have done this if it wasn't for the following orders thing. My ISTP friend was in the Marines.
 

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Anything consitant would get boring. I need constant change. Thats what I like about technician or mechanic. Its always new projects, new problems. I would love to get into custom car stereo or custom engine builds as those fields are always pushing the bar in what can be done in a field I enjoy(music and fast).

Mechanical work isn't as new and exciting as you'd think. Sure there are the odd problems you'll get that require a bit of ingenuity, but for the most part... after your 50th time changing the oil on something, or doing a routine valve adjustment, or replacing a serpentine belt.. you get the picture.

Also it doesn't help that you are under the gun to work quickly and efficiently, you'll only get paid how many hours it's supposed to take to fix something, so if you spend 3 hours doing an oil change that only books at 30 minutes you're getting paid for 30 minutes of work.
 

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Mechanical work isn't as new and exciting as you'd think. Sure there are the odd problems you'll get that require a bit of ingenuity, but for the most part... after your 50th time changing the oil on something, or doing a routine valve adjustment, or replacing a serpentine belt.. you get the picture.

Also it doesn't help that you are under the gun to work quickly and efficiently, you'll only get paid how many hours it's supposed to take to fix something, so if you spend 3 hours doing an oil change that only books at 30 minutes you're getting paid for 30 minutes of work.

I worked at discount tire when I was 20. It was fun until management got all strict and said no throwing the tools, spinning tools, jumping over tires to pop them up, you can no longer race each other changing tires. I did get all the high end cars though and the ones where people wanted to squeeze a wider tire then the wheel was designed for. Did this on alot of mustangs and camaros. One other guy tried it and turned partially into the joker. Bar split the corner of his mouth open.

But, yes by the time you have done everything it requires no thought. Your talking to a person who just for the hell of it imported an engine from Japan, did an engine swap, rewired and installed megasquirt and programmed it without any professional help. Unfortunatley I got busy and while the car runs I never got around to rewelding the exhaust so I have not been able to fully road tune it using the wide band oxygen sensor. I like custom as yes repetitive just turns into following tried and true methods and gets well repetitive.
 

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My ISTP husband's first love is farming. Grew up as a pig farmer's son and one day will buy the family farm. He went to agricultural college and realized that farming would not pay the bills so he went with his second love -fixing things- and got his Truck and Coach Mechanic Licence plus his Auto Licence (you need a licence to work as such in Canada).

He loves working on big trucks (construction etc) but now works on medium trucks (henio) due to back problems. He too loves to work with his hands and does not look forward to a service managers (desk) job in the industry.

The job usually is not routine. When things come in (whether booked or not) most of the time the driver does not know what's wrong or there are more problems than what is obvious. Sometimes he has to do a service call, where a truck has broken down on the road (or won't start), diagnose and fix it on the spot if he can. If he can't fix it or it is too dangerous to work on it, he'll call the tow truck.

He also works on refeer units (the machine that keeps the inside of a truck cool/cold for transporting food).
 

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Doesn't the federal government support farming?

:yim_rolling_on_the_

No. Not the family farms. Every political party promises to support farmers. :rolli:

There are income tax write offs associated with having a family farm and there are government loans. If you want, you can buy crop insurance but usually that is a waste of money and an expense that farmers can't afford.

I'm not too sure but farming might be one of those grey areas regarding a power struggle btwn provincial and federal. The land that you farm would fall under provincial power but if you grew crops for international export, then that would fall under federal power.

IMO, farming is extremely political and a tax nightmare.

And would you believe, that every trade can write off their tools on their income taxes except for mechanics. :steam:
 
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