For the INFJ personality type, there are four things that I think that you need in a job in order to feel fulfilled.
And look, this isn't—I'm not going to tell you career paths specifically that you need to go down,
because then I'd be telling everybody that they need to be, you know,
like a psychologist or a monk or a hypnotherapist. That's not what I'm all about.
I'm gonna say: what do you need to find even in your own job now?
Maybe you hate your job, but these are four things that you can find in your job
and you should be looking for in future jobs and future careers in order to find
ultimate fulfillment for your personality type.
So the first thing that an INFJ needs to be doing in a career in order to find fulfilment
is they need to be communicating.
They need to be in a position that requires some kind of transmission of information from them to others.
INFJs are cut out to be excellent communicators, and really, it's what they're really gonna want to do.
They're gonna want to tell everyone, "hey, here's what I know. Here's the way things are, man."
And that's because we have that pairing of introverted intuition (Ni) and extroverted feeling (Fe).
When you have introverted intuition (Ni), your whole life is around:
how can I boil down [to] everything I see in life into one pattern; one concept?
How can I take everything at my job and figure out: What's the one system?
What's the one pattern at work here? How can we optimize that?
And then with the extroverted feeling (Fe), that's basically:
How can I make everyone feel good? If you want to boil it down to stupid people language, that's what it is.
So, that Ni-Fe combo is all about: "I gotta tell everyone this thing that's gonna make their lives better.
All these patterns I've figured out, I gotta get it to them somehow."
So, communication: it's something that we just naturally want to do.
Now, maybe you're a mumble mouth. Maybe you feel like, "Frank, I'm not a public speaker."
That's okay. I'm not saying that an INFJ's gonna be naturally eloquent
You're not gonna be able to stand up and say the Gettysburg Address off the top of your head, but
what I'm saying is, you have the potential to be really great, and you have the desire.
You feel the responsibility to do this; you feel the responsibility to communicate, and that's the important thing
And I know that any INFJ who puts their mind to it is going to be able to become a very good communicator,
I say ironically as I trip over my words. That's kind of funny.
You can do it. You can be a great communicator and you'll find that, once you start doing that in your job,
you're gonna feel a lot more fulfilled because it's what you feel like it's what you're supposed to be doing.
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Secondly, this is an interesting one. I think that, for an INFJ to be fulfilled in their career, in their job,
they need to have some degree of independence.
They need to feel like they have some agency over what they're doing.
This one's a little interesting, though, because it isn't necessarily playing to their strengths.
Because extroverted feeling (Fe) is all about the group, the crowd, "hey, let's all get together on this,"
and really, honestly, I feel like an INFJ in total cruise control would rather be a follower rather than a leader,
but they are just... they've got so much going on for them that when they get into that leadership role
or an independent, "let me do my own thing" role, they really excel.
Having your introverted intuition (Ni) up top there, your dominant function,
it really does kind of just want to do its own thing. INFJs can be very controlling
and that's because of the introverted intuition (Ni). It's a very controlling kind of function.
Now, I'm sure all of you are saying, "I'm not controlling! Meow meow meow!"
But you are. I'm sorry to tell you.
For an INFJ to be under someone and not a leader, it might be a bit easier for them to fit in in that regard,
and it might be their natural place to go to be kind of unassuming, but they're gonna be grinding their gears
because they're like, "man, I just really want to take control of this... but I can't, because I'm not at the top."
So when an INFJ can find some kind of independence in their job, whether that's, you know, you're an employee somewhere
but you're given a project to do on your own, or if that means being a freelancer starting your own business,
once you can have some independence, then it feels like it's playing to your strength
because suddenly you have complete control over what you're doing.
So, it's weird, because you're playing to your strength of organizing and controlling,
but in order to do so, you need to develop your kind of weak spot, which is trusting in yourself
and not constantly looking around to other people to give you a thumbs up and say, "hey good job."
All right. So the third thing is a job where you are organizing something.
That is going to really play to your strengths.
I know, a lot of you are like, "man, I'm really artistic and free-flowing, and I don't, like, organize anything."
Sure you don't, sure you don't.
Look, organizing doesn't mean that your room is gonna be spotless;
it doesn't mean that your closet is gonna be color coded; but what it means is,
when you get focused in on something, you are going to be organizing the heck out of it.
That's just what introverted intuition (Ni) does. It wants to find a pattern.
And you're gonna... you probably have found this already at your job,
that if you can do something where, all of a sudden, you're creating a system,
you're systematizing something based on some kind of abstract pattern,
it feels amazing because you're in the zone.
And, especially for an INFJ, the organizing is more on [an] abstract level.
So, if you look at some of the stereotypical INFJ careers, like for instance, a counsellor or a psychologist,
what are they doing? They're listening to someone else. They're taking in all this information about them
and then organizing them along abstract lines to figure out how to help the person.
or if you think about another stereotypical job for an INFJ, like, say, a... spiritual guru, how about that?
That is just all this abstract stuff, and...
You're trying to explain the universe by giving these one-liners, basically,
to over-simplify what a spiritual guru does.
You're like, "this is the way the universe works. It's all about this one thing."
Try to find that in the job you're in. How can I organize what's going on? How can I create better systems?
How can I see, "oh, this is everything that's going on in the office or in this classroom
and this is all of a sudden how I can tie everything together into one harmonious pattern?"
And then the big thing, the biggie that you need in a career as an INFJ, is
you need to feel like you're helping people.
Because if you don't feel like you're helping people,
it's really gonna feel totally pointless. "Why am I even alive?" You know what I mean?
Now, a lot of people need that. There are a lot of people who need to feel like they're helping people in their job
or else it's pointless, but especially for an INFJ because, with that extraverted feeling (Fe),
that's wanting to take care of others; that's wanting to give everyone some kind of happiness;
to raise everyone's vibration, if you will.
And we're not just satisfied to do it in a physical way like, "oh, here's a cookie,"
but we want to do it in this abstract way, like, "I want to solve something deeper about you.
I want to get into your very soul and somehow make things better."
That's the big challenge. This is why it can be hard for an INFJ to find career satisfaction
because how many jobs are there really where you can do that, you know?
If your job is to bag groceries, to get to that level of helping people out is... it feels impossible.
So that's why a lot of you and the careers you're in are gonna have to really
take it upon yourselves and find that independence within your job to help others in that deeper,
more abstract sense that we really desire. You've got to figure it out.
So, it could be as simple as, if you are bagging groceries,
you're gonna see all kinds of people come through, come past you, and...
So you'll be really good at reading them, figuring out kind of what's going on with them,
and then trying to get in there just for a moment and somehow make these people's lives better;
and somehow feel like you're propelling them on to something greater
even though the actual job you're doing is just... this.
You can take it upon yourself to go an extra step and really change people's lives
in the short amount of time you have with them.
And sometimes, it can be hard, because maybe you have a job where you don't interact with other people.
Maybe you sit in an office all day with a computer and that's it.
That's gonna be rough, man, but you can think in a way like, "how is this helping people?" and maybe...
Maybe, if you get stuck in that kind of job...
Maybe... maybe you need to get out of it. I generally don't want to tell people, "get out of your job,"
but this is where an INFJ is really gonna wither if there's no human interaction.
I know a lot of you are like, "I'm an introvert. I like being alone."
Yeah, we like being alone. But if, after... if you've been working at a job for, like, a year,
and it suddenly hits you: "I'm not helping anybody by doing this,"
you are going to really have an existential crisis.
Even if you like "being alone," it's not gonna work out in the long run.
So, find a way in your job to feel like you are helping other people on a deep level.
If you really feel like you can't, you need to look for another way to find that fulfillment.
Whether it's another job or volunteering on the side, to starting your own business, something.
So there's my four things that every INFJ needs in their career in order to be fulfilled.
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