So with the career choices, I think it's more important to focus on something that's going
to be interesting in the long term.
You know, Dan, I just want to take a moment to talk about height privilege. I feel like
you know, as a vertically challenged person, oh, you can just be a little bit better.
I'm about I'm so sorry. I haven't even acknowledged my privilege. I'm Yes. Hi. I am. I am so it's.
Ring ring. Oh, is that the phone? You're an INFP. You're struggling with what career to
pick. Where to work? Well, Tara, do you get it? It's another INFP calling. Really? What
are the odds? Wow. Yeah, I'm actually just sitting here with Tara. She's an INFP. Gal.
We can totally give you some advice. Perfect. That's That's what we'll do this video. Awesome.
That was so convenient that they happen to call just as we were going to film a video.
This is great. All right. Well, why don't we share seven tips for inf peace around career
career advice? We could call it. I literally just said that twice. So we have it better
for SEO. That's okay. Authenticity here at Dreams Around The World. Alright, tip number
one. We were talking about this the other day? is pursuing something that is about quantity
over quality. No. The other way around quality over quantity. Yes. Why is that so important?
Because INFPs are idealists, we tend to really, really, really care about doing things,
right. And we have big dreams, big goals. And like, it's one of our greatest strengths
is our ideals. So we definitely want to have quality over quantity, we're just not good
at pumping things out. It makes us feel terrible. If we're just you know, writing SEO articles.
If you think about some of the most famous INFPs, they have not been famous for a
quantity of work they have done. They are famous for certain literary works, let's say
that are around like, I believe Lord of the Rings, Tolkien is an INFP would make sense
that
would add up. It makes sense right to use that desire to make something great, and channel
it into something. So finding a place you can work that values quantity, Tara brought
up SEO articles. So if you were a writer, like Tara is like I was and sort of am there
are many different types of writing you can do. Some is going to be great for an INFP
like writing books, whether your own or as a ghostwriter, or writing one article over
many weeks that will be published in a magazine and it really needs to be great, versus some
writing jobs that are like, hey, we need 30 articles a week, crank that out, that is going
to be a terrible job for you. It might be a good writing job for other people who maybe
aren't as creative and are really efficient and just want to crank out a lot of work.
So quality over quantity is the first tip here. For me, when I'm talking about career,
I always break it down into three categories, you have the actual day to day work, what
you are doing. So if you are a writer, it's writing. If you are a teacher, it might be
teaching, if you work in some kind of large corporation, I don't really know what people
do, I assume it's a lot of this on spreadsheets, I don't understand it. But you have the day
to day what you do, then you have the industry or the topic or the area. So maybe your work
in finance or construction or education. And then you have the environment where you work.
So is it a company that's all about results? Is it a company that's about egos, is it you
know, what is the workplace? What are your colleagues like? And more importantly, what
is your manager like? And it's important to consider all three of these things because
you could have a place where the environment is really great and you love your colleagues
and coworkers. And the topic is interesting to you. So you love the industry in general.
But your day to day work you absolutely hate. It's like some kind of let's say you're doing
accounting, that's not a great fit for you. You're gonna feel really burnout by that.
And that's actually one of the recipes to burnout if you want it, if you're keen to
burnout, you want an excuse to go travel for a year or something, what you do is you find
a workplace where the company values are aligned with yours, which is actually one of the important
things for INFPs. Number two here is to do work at a place aligned with your values.
So you find a place where your values are aligned, you love your colleagues, you have
a nice office where there's plants and ping pong tables and crap like that. But the actual
work goes against your strengths and is really draining. That's the recipe to burnout. Because
you don't want to let down your peers. So you're going to work hard. You'll tell yourself,
why can't I can't quit this job, because it's this great company, and we're doing important
work. But the actual thing you need to do every day is just super draining. And so that
is a terrible, terrible way to go. Number three, you brought this up earlier today,
which was what the the self identity?
Oh, yes, yeah. When you have work that maybe you don't even mind that much. But it doesn't
really align with who you consider yourself to be. And I think you have to be a little
careful about this one, especially if you're younger, and you're trying on identities.
But for example, I sometimes do a lot of website work because I know how to do it, I don't
mind it. But I find it hard to just go all in and throw myself into it and be really
passionate because I think of myself as more of a creative like I'm a writer, or even an
artist. But I I find it hard to align. I'm a web developer and an artist together. So
I never really go all in and get into web development. It doesn't fit into my passions
and who I consider myself to be as a person.
So you're not going to grow your, your brand and your network. And so you'll have limited
success. I'm not an INFP. I'm an ENFP if you're new to the channel, but I had this exact same
issue when I was a mortgage planner, right out of University, where I like the work,
I liked my colleagues and I was pretty good at it. But I just I had no pride, like when
I meet people, like I'm a mortgage planner, like I my ideal for myself was larger than
that, call it an ego call it whatever it is what it is. And so I never had a desire to
like market myself to my peers to go back to people from college and be like, if you
buy a house, I'm the guy to get you the best financing, right? I always knew I would be
doing something else for myself after. So I wouldn't really own it didn't align with
my self identity. And even as a copywriter, I had less so but some challenge with that
as well. Because I didn't see that as my end all in life. I think doing what I do now is
probably what I kind of figured. And so I love copywriting I still love I still do it.
I teach teach it. And I do it for myself, like not for clients, but I, I just could
never make it my identity. And so that business again, like being a mortgage planner could
have been, it was somewhat lucrative. It funded my living around the world for a while very
well. But it could have been much more lucrative. I could have been an incredible copywriter
and that, but it wasn't my identity. I never fully owned it, like you said, so I hadn't
thought of that for career advice until you brought it up. But it's so bang on when I
think back to it. Next up would be minimal conflict, I think, basically like a happy
workplace. Yeah. I think is probably a fair one. If you're an INFP, you don't really need
us to explain that one. You probably don't like arguing with people all day. So don't
work somewhere where you have to argue all day. Next would be flexibility.
Yes, yes. So I've definitely had many jobs that I took purely for making money and failing.
Like I needed to hold down a day job to be respectable. And they were all nine to five.
And I found like sometimes my moods or energy would fluctuate. And I would feel so guilty,
which I think is common for INFPs because I was like, oh gosh, I'm sitting here for
like a whole hour and I'm doing nothing. So I think being able to have the flexibility
to work when our energy is high. Sometimes that might even mean not working certain days
in the week, or just getting everything done in a couple of days, instead of like, every
single day, I'm going to work from nine to five. And then stop is very important.
Definitely. And this is, I mean, if you're an ENFP watching this to or if you're an ENFP,
or INFP, or trying to figure that out, you can check out my video on figuring out what
type you are. But it's very true as well. I have no reason to not be productive. I have
my own business. I obviously benefit when I do things. Like there's no reason to cheat
myself, like, Dan, I didn't work today. And so I'm always trying to kind of be at my best.
And there's fluctuations and mental energy and times you focus there's, and there are
these natural rhythms like Yes. And so I was talking, Louis here is on camera behind you,
you can't see him, but he's and I was talking to him, I will find a way to fit it, fit it
in. And I was talking to him about this, about, you know, different times of energy, right,
and how for me, I'll run out of it. So if we spend a lot of time in the day, chatting
on stuff, like we were trying to figure out lighting settings and color settings for the
camera. And then that was cool. But then I was too burnt out to think of videos and do
the filming, because I used all this energy there. So that kind of ties in with the flexibility.
Like if you're certain work, especially creative work, if you're low energy, like mid afternoon
is for me, or early afternoon, it's like there's no point writing, it will do more damage than
good, because the editing on it will be awful. And so having a work place that's going to
be more like results oriented or flexible on your hours is going to be I think really
important for that. At the same time, though, that brings us to to number six here, which
is some kind of structure is probably really valuable for you. Which may seem like contradictory,
but I don't think it is. What do you think about structure?
Yeah, so I've definitely I've worked for a number of startups and like new companies
that were kind of trying to figure themselves out. And I was supposed to get work done.
But I had managers who are kind of like, well, you know, just do whatever. And it was way
too broad. So sometimes I would get overwhelmed around like, Okay, what do I work on. And
I think this is the thing INFPs tend to do. Like if you give us options, we can easily
get frozen with an overabundance of choice. So especially once you figure out like what
works for you, if you're working for yourself. Or if you're working for a company, like you
have a manager who is going to tell you exactly what they want in what they want it, it can
be very, very helpful for INFP. So just have that clear. It's like of course, you need
some room for creativity and whatnot in flexibility. But you also need some kind of structure so
that you're working towards something. And I think just being able to deliver that can
give you a little boost. It's like I did something I know what I'm supposed to be working on.
And I did it. And yay, for me. That's good. Yeah,
one of my Free Freelancer members, Adam, who the d&d player I mentioned, he is a great
way with words. And he were talking about something very similar to this. And he described
it as, it's like framing your painting. So the structure is creating the frame for you
to paint in. And you can be a lot more creative. If you have some kind of structure. And it's
the same not to go down a rabbit hole on it. But like a lot of creative processes are that
way. Right? You have a frame. Tara is a novelist. Is that okay? Can we call you a novelist?
And so you have that with stories, right? There's basic structures that you work within,
because if you have no structure, you go crazy. And if you do employ INFPs or ENFPs, for
that matter, and you're wondering, I think we appreciate that kind of structure and accountability
to a certain level. Like if we see the logic in it, it's helpful. Having things like in
my team right now we're in the process of putting in more structure so things like not
like weekly reports, but sort of a weekly meeting where you go over with What you did
what you'll do the next week, otherwise you feel kind of lost. Like, it's, I think better
to have a little more structure than the not enough. Number seven, our last one here is
having the ability to do creative work and to go deep to really sink your teeth into
something. Creativity. INFPs. I've never heard that before you guys want to be creative.
That's the thing.
Apparently, it is surprised me to but Yeah, like if you can find a way to be creative.
If you're stuck at a job even in there usually is something I worked in an administrative
position. And I actually just started taking up making manuals for the company and like
adding these cute little asides and stuff, mostly because I was so bored. But I also
had a great S type manager who was just like, here's what you need to do. But also, I'm
going to kind of leave you to your own devices outside of that. So yeah, like INFPs need
some way to be creative. It's sometimes it's very obvious, like you're an artist or you're
a full time author or whatever it is. Other times, you can usually find some way I find
no matter what job I'm doing to be creative within your career.
And and even the concept of going deep. In that can mean a couple things. It can mean
deep work, you know, you work on things for hours at a time. But even let's say you are
doing something in HR, which INFPs do from time to time. And there's a difference between
managing 500 employees and being sort of okay, I five minutes a person versus i I'm there
to support 20 people, and you have these deep relationships with less people, but much deeper,
much more significant. I think that's really important. So those were our seven tips for
INFPs are career advice to help you find a place to work at. Yes, there are plenty
of career lists, I'm sure you've already found them if you're looking for INFP career advice,
but the thing that's gonna matter more than the profession, is what we talked about here.
And the environment, the company values, who you're working with specifically who your
manager is and how you will be spending your time day to day is all going to be much more
important than the job title for whether or not you're going to be satisfied with the
work. My name is Dan, this was Tara. The channel is Dreams Around The World. I publish new
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