Hello mr. or mrs. ENFP or perhaps concerned friend or family member of an
ENFP what is the ideal career for you or if you're just going into college what
is the right major for an ENFP to take so I have some good news and I've some bad
news the good news is there is a very high chance you're gonna have more than
one or maybe more than a dozen careers or so in your life because that is just
the way of the ENFP the bad news is is it might take you a couple or a dozen
careers or majors to get to that point where you find the perfect career for
you or there may not even be a perfect one career but it might be about life
phases and different times of your life and what the right role is for you at
different points I'm going to cover all that in this video so let's start off by
looking at some of the needs an ENFP has some of the things that we need to have
in order for our life to be satisfying and the first and probably most
important for an ENFP is the need for variety
now this can come in different forms that can come in things being different
all the time but it can also come in like the need for being challenged the
need for things to be different challenging like we feel a bit of
excitement with our work right rather than just doing the same thing every day
all the time there's some people that are really good at separating their
career and their life so they'll have their job and they want to go to the
same job every day do the same work and as long as it's kind of stable and they
can count on it they're happy and in their personal time they might be rock
climbers they might be racecar drivers they might do all kinds of fun stuff but
their career they're happy with it being really boring that doesn't work so well
for us enfps our career needs to give us some excitement and some variety so
that's the first thing you want to look at when you're deciding what to do is
there gonna be able to be variety in this career because what you don't want
to do and what a lot of unit P's do is we get a variety by changing careers all
the time or changing relationships or whatever else so rather than getting the
variety by changing jobs all the time it doesn't necessarily do good things for
your resume is can you get that variety within one
career if you can get it from one place then you can be very satisfied for 10 or
20 years and not have to go for this job to this job to this job because you're
getting all that need met in the one job and that will give you the variety and
that's a lot healthier way to do it than having to change jobs in order to get
variety another need a lot of enfps have and all humans have on some level just
to be clear it's not just an ENFP thing but we have a need to get recognition or
to feel special or unique we want to feel like hey I did a good job or get
yeah just recognition feeling like we're doing something we don't like the
thought of being a clog in the machine just another number so if you can work
that into your career where you're gonna be getting recognition maybe you've got
awards for good performance or maybe it's just a job with a cool title like
you're the ambassador or something like that it's gonna make you feel special
which is gonna be a just a good feeling it's gonna keep you enjoying that career
more and more now you don't want to become some ego driven maniac where your
entire life is based on getting this recognition right but knowing that hey I
need a little recognition I need to feel special a bit it's probably gonna help
out when I started working for myself after a couple years and a business
failure I ended up getting asked and joined this other startup as a
co-founder and one of the things that I loved so much in it was getting
recognition from the other people the CEO would say oh yeah and that was great
like you know this work is really awesome or whatever it is and I realize
like that feels nice I haven't had that in a couple years because when you're
the boss you don't always get that from other people on that note I'm not gonna
talk about working for yourself an entrepreneurship too much in this video
there is a link I'm gonna link up here one of these sides to another video I've
done specifically on whether or not ENFP should work for themselves so if you're
interested in that which is often a great route for unities then check out
that other video the next important part for an ENFP is interaction hey turns out
we like people I know right crazy so if you like people interacting with people
is probably going to be quite satisfying for me this was something I struggled
with as a freelance right I generally really enjoyed that work but
working on my own for most if not all the day really drained on me so as an
ENFP we like to be around people and we like to interact with people not always
we we don't mind being independent we don't mind you know spending time to
recharge we have a little bit of that introverted sort of side but in general
we should be working with people and we excel in a kind of people environment
where we can use our people skills our empathy in that to do not only just to
have that but also if that's part of the job we're gonna excel because we're
gonna use these skills it said that enfps have the strongest ability to go
in and like read a room to get a sense of the energy in a room or like oh that
person feels weird that person's an asshole that kind of thing we have a
really strong sense their sense of intuition so if you can use that in your
work it's gonna be really fulfilling for you you're gonna do really good at it
which you know generally when we do good at things we like them and it creates
this great cycle of good feelings right so you want to look for a career where
there's gonna be variety there's gonna be challenges you're gonna have a chance
to interact with people what don't you want I'm guessing a lot of rules of
bureaucracy I don't know if you're like me but I do not like rules and red tape
and do this because I said so kind of stuff and so being in a really big
company that's gonna have a lot of rules that's gonna have a lot of structure and
I don't mean rules like hey don't murder your coworkers that's usually a good one
it's always a good one I would say but I mean rules that are like unnecessary red
tape and some manager a thousand miles away from you is setting a rule for how
you should do your job that you know better than them of how that job should
be done because you're in the field let's say right and so that's gonna
really bug you as well nf piece tend not to like to give orders or to get orders
it's a weird thing where you have some people who never want to have a boss and
they want to be the boss they like telling me what to do you have people
who like getting orders and like how always having a boss we sort of fall in
this gray area where we can be really good leaders we can inspire people we
can kind of come up with plans but we don't like to tell people specifically
what to do that the concept of control to someone else we don't like and being
controlled we definitely do not like and so thinking about that in terms of how
you set things up so that doesn't mean you can't be a manager or a boss but it
means that your management style is probably gonna be more like
inspirational where and coming up with systems and empowering your employees to
kind of do their own thing within your framework rather than saying all right
you do this you do that and like giving orders which the good news is that waive
management giving orders and micromanaging is really not the best way
and that's been shown more and more over the last few decades so the approach of
just kind of giving people freedom autonomy and then some guidance tends to
be a better way to manage anyhow and that's more the ENFP is natural style
now you might have noticed that at this point I haven't talked about specific
skill sets in terms of hard skills like get into engineering become a scientist
become a mathematician the reason for that is there's gonna be a great variety
of interest and what you enjoy so I've spoken to enfps who are great engineers
because they have a mathematical mind and they're actually really good at that
kind of logic similarly oh were you were you asking about my shirt this one oh
well this wonderful shirt was actually designed by an ENFP fashion designer my
wonderful girlfriend Gabby Milford I'm gonna link to that
Gabby Milford comm if you'd like to support a fellow ENFP fashion designer
which also illustrates my point is that if you happen to love drawing or art or
design then you could also be an ENFP designer you could get involved with
film you could do all kinds of things so your passions are not dictated by your
personality type right your passions are gonna be more just I don't know where
they come from to be honest I'm not even gonna try to guess but you're gonna have
your passions you might love cars you might love fashion jewelry travel
whatever that is that's your passion and what you want to do is you want to find
a career that can have the passion involved but also mix in more this
working style I talked about so lots of challenges lots of variety not a lot of
stupid rules and if you can combine these two things you're gonna find a
really good environment for you the last thing I'm gonna
engine is in terms of working style you nephews tend to be more project based
rather than consistent type working in another video where I talk about how to
design your life around your personality type I go into this in more detail but
essentially some of us are more project-based where we're good at like
really challenging one-off projects do it sprint work super hard then kind of
take a break and other people are good at consistent work like doing the same
thing every day every week and knowing that and how you're wired is really
important and how you either kind of choose your career but also within your
career or within your business if you're working for yourself how you actually
set up your work and plan your work and all that kind of stuff it makes a big
difference so check out that other video too and you'll get a lot more tips on
designing your life around well your personality type if you came here
looking for a list of 50 professions you can do as an ENFP I'm sorry to
disappoint but I think what I've shared here is a lot more valuable in terms of
how to actually pick the right thing for you the truth is an ENFP is capable of
doing a lot of jobs just about anything we're a bit of a jack-of-all-trades we
learn things quite quickly we tend to be relatively smart we like to learn you
can do a lot so if you have a passion like you love science you love biology
then you could do that if you love fashion like vanam by gabbu milford
support my girlfriend by the shirt if that is you then you can do that you
could do whatever it is that you're sort of passionate and good about what I want
to give you here is then the the conditions to make that work well right
so you could end up at a company where let's say you love animation you could
end up working for a great animation studio where the work they do is exactly
what you want to do but it turns out the work environment is very bureaucratic
you don't have a lot of interaction with other people it's not very challenging
and then it ends up being a really unsatisfying career even though you're
working in your passion the way that the company is set up that you're working at
won't meet your needs so think of your what you're passionate about or more
importantly I think what you're good at and then find a company that has these
kinds of working conditions and that combination is going to be really good
for you and you're going to excel if you are interested in working for
yourself check out my other video there'll be a link at the end screen
here for should enfps work for themselves and the other video I
mentioned on designing your life around your personality type otherwise do
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