Hey Dan here and in this video I want to share with you three career options that
many ENFPs assume they would suck at or are turned off by but in reality can be
the cream of the crop for ENFPs and careers where ENFPs can find a ton of
success. if this is your first time on the channel my name is Dan this is
dreams around the world and my mission is to help you become the best version
of yourself. So the first career that many ENFPs are
really turned off by but ENFPs can be really good at is sales and promotion.
Come on we all know this is true you've had the moments where you've been trying
to get your friend to go with you to a party or you've got into a cause I mean
there's not an ENFP in the world who hasn't been vegan or keto or bulletproof
or whatever thing at some point in their life, we tend to be a little crazy that
way and when we are promoting something we really care about
we are extremely good at it. I think we all know that is true right now why most
ENFPs are turned off by sales and promotion is our perception of what
sales needs to be. We think sales is about being really pushy, forceful and we
think that if something is good you don't need to sell it right so therefore
sales is just about selling things people don't need which anyone who knows
about psychology or marketing that we know that's not true that you need to
influence and promote if you want to have people do anything, if you want
people to exercise more and be happier like governments have programs where
they basically promote exercise or promote health and like they need to
market it and promote it because people need that in order to change in anything
and as an ENFP you have the gift of the gab and the ability to influence and to
sell and to promote when and this is very important when you believe in the
cause so when you are aligned with something you really like to do now if
like me you had a sales job in the past I did door-to-door sales and Furley two
weeks telemarketing for my university to get donations I did not enjoy that right
but I did not really care about the cause and so often as an ENFP you'll get
a job as a teenager maybe having to sell something and you don't
like it why because you're selling something that you don't really like and
you don't care about it your boss isn't very good like you're learning sales
from someone two years older who doesn't really know what they're doing and then
you get turned off of it for your whole life like nope don't want to do sales
try that is terrible never again right well that's why you're turned off
because you had a terrible experience with it. Trust me, when you get aligned
with the right organization or product or whatever it is for you you can do
really well in sales and promotions and actually really enjoy it. The second
career path ENFPs can flourish in is entrepreneurship and some of you
ENFPs know this where they're like yeah I want to work for myself I could
never have a boss that's perfect but sometimes we look at certain types
of entrepreneurs like imagine the guy who owns 12 McDonald's or someone who's
built a massive corporation like GE or Microsoft and I would argue that ENFPs
tend not to be Empire builders we're not going to be someone who builds a
traditional like mining company or steel Empire or financial powerhouse, those
aren't the kind of entrepreneurs ENFPs are but with the right sort of business
an ENFP can be an exceptionally good entrepreneur and in most cases not all I
think that is more of a lifestyle business and what I mean by lifestyle
business is a business that will maybe max out it's somewhere between 1 or 9
and 12 employees somewhere in there that's focused on a cause, that's fun
that's not too rigid, versus say a performance business where you're
looking at 20 30 50 people or building more of an empire right 500 a thousand
people I'm sure there are many ENFP business founders who started a company
and loved it during the first year or two and then got investments and then
grew and then had to have an HR department in the legal department it
was like nope I'm done this is not for me so ENFPs great entrepreneurs in
the early stage and in more lifestyle based companies at least that's my
theory. On it the third career that ENFPs can do really well in but maybe
don't think about as much as they should is writing. ENFPs can be awesome
writers if you look up famous ENFPs there are a ton of great novelist
journalist we are good at communication and we can be really
passionate about something and pour that into our writing to share that message
now within the writing field there are many things you can do in fact I think
four years ago I created a course on an introduction to being a freelance writer
and I went through all the different options and there's dozens of ways you
can earn money writing a few that I think are extra appealing for ENFPs
is maybe being a freelance journalist although I say that hesitantly because
journalism is in a very bad state these days and I probably would not want to be
involved with it but like an investigative journalist traditionally
any and if you would love you have adventure you can uncover injustice you
can share a message could be really cool be very careful about where you work
these days second thing is being a copywriter this is what I did when I was
a freelance writer and traveling the world I was doing copywriting which
means doing marketing writing for companies I would often work with
coaches and small businesses and basically help them identify like who
they are what they're passionate about what their message is and then convey
that to their audience and I really loved that because I was connecting with
people and then helping people that I believed in promote themselves so that
worked really well and the third option of course is to write articles to write
books that more of a traditional writer that we think of it's a different
business model than working with clients but it's something that can work really
well and of course you can mix these I have written books I write articles all
the time and I have written for my own copywriting and marketing and I've
written for a dozens of companies as a copywriter so often as a writer you will
mix all these there are some people who are primarily authors or primarily
journalists or that sort of thing but you can definitely mix all these
together that is the beauty of writing once you learn how to write you can of
course write in many many different ways and I'd be crazy to not mention that if
you do want to become a freelance writer I highly suggest signing up for a free
training I have called the life design approach I tell many stories about
building my own writing career about traveling well being a freelance
copywriter and how I just got started including writing books you can sign up
for that at dreams around-the-world slash free training I'll put a link
below in the comments and description as well and yeah you'll enjoy it
tell some pretty hilarious stories and share a lot of insights into how I got
started so in the comments below answer me this the three career options I
covered sales and promotion, entrepreneurship and writing - did your
view of them change after this video? How did you think of them before and how do
you think of them now let me know below in the comments and as always I publish
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