'Thanks for the responses. I like your idea Belle, and you did call me out a bit, which I appreciate;-). You are correct in that running around saying I hate my job certainly does not help the...
So here it is, I am 44 years old and I still don't know what the heck I want to do with my life, or the rest of it at this point;-) So I will just put it out there - have any of you found ways of...
Well obviously we can be friends with anyone, as one poster said, and many intimate relationships start out as friendships. But, to the question, yes you can be friends with a a member of the...
This has always been an issue for me, I am 44, so I think it is probably pretty common. Obviously everyone is different but procrastination I believe is mostly about fear of not doing something...
Depends on what you are looking for but I like most things written by Larry McMurtry, my all time favorite book is Lonesome Dove. If you like horror, The Stand, by Stephen King, is excellent.
Lots of Queens of the Stone Age. I discovered them about a year ago after I started taking guitar lessons...
Well the kind of conflict I try to avoid, and hate, is conflict in intimate relationships whether that be with a friend or a partner. I have no problem with conflict when it comes to non-personal...
Honestly, I don't really agree with the blanket statement that INFPs should not go to college. First, let's just keep it real, while there are certain professions that don't require a college degree...
I am now married, and I have been in many relationships over the years and it seems that no matter how right a relationship may have seem that I was always kind of looking. I don't know if this was...
Sarcasm seems to be a thing with us INFPs. I have done it for so long and I forget that I have to be careful around people who don't know me very well because they will think I am being serious.
I have one really good friend with whom I can literally go back and forth having a conversation about the most inappropriate thing in a completely dead pan serious way. We have freaked people out so...
Just like you. What I find strange is how my extroverted friends seem to find me so amusing. Sometimes I just get on a roll....
I think it's awesome you get into characters at work. I am in sales and I literally have to act my way through my job every day just to survive. I actually don't have much stage fright, I do...
I have always had a dry sense of humor, actually very sarcastic, and surprisingly, people often consider me pretty funny. I have been told by a couple of people that I should do stand-up but I think...
Well I don't really get the winter blues anymore because I live in Southern California, which is actually sunny most of the time. And when I was growing up in the Midwest I did not really get...
I have heard this my whole life and one of the things my friends value about me is that I listen. What I have always found, however, is that until people take the time to get to know they...
For me, I always did poor at math in high school, and most of college, partly becuase I just found it boring and really did not feel it was necessary for what I was trying to do at the time. I think...
Interesting question and I am not sure I can put myself in a bubble. In general I have always been more of an urban person, I wanted to live in NYC years ago but ended up living in LA. I tend to...
Well I think any type can work for a relationship, my wife is an INFJ, but if I were single again I would probably be looking for an ENFJ woman. I have never had a romantic relationship with an...
I agree 100% with sammyboy265 and I truly laughed out loud because this, in my opinion is the biggest issues that most INFPs face. The reality is that there all types of areas we excel in but...
I am not sure about all of the specifics about personality type but I do know I did not discover I was an INFP until reading Do What You Are, like you, when I was in my late twenties many years ago....
You know, at first I really liked Skype and Facetime, but now I try to avoid using them not because I have some aversion to seeing people but because they just seem to take a lot of work and there...
I was raised in a non-religious household although my mom was brought up Methodist and my dad was a Southern Baptist. When I was about 12, because I had been convinced by some kid at camp that...
I would agree with this and I would say that every job, no matter how much you love it, is going to have a painful tedious part. I like to act but I spent two twelve hour days recently on the set of...
Hey Usherer. Studying law was a decision I made right out of college when I had no idea I was an INFP and I had some vague goal of being a crusader for justice:happy:. I did okay in law school but...
I am sure I am an INFP. I have tested ENFP a couple of times but for the most part INFP seems to have been consistent. Occassionally I can be extremely extroverted and many people consider me...
Theatre psychotherapy sounds interesting usherer and your goals sound really admirable. I think that as INFPs we really excel at jobs involving counseling and helping people to become their best. I...
Well, I completely understand where you are coming from and I will give my two cents, which you can take with a grain of salt. I have spent years working in Corporate America and in sales, which I...
I have kept a journal off and on since was around 12 years old, I am 42 now. I used to just journal on more of a random basis until about ten years ago when I read this book called The Artist Way,...
For me, as an INFP, I find ENJs most attractive, which is evidently the ideal partner type for an INFP. ENFJ woman just bring me to my knees;-)
Lately I have been listening to this great jazz musician Robert Glasper and, strangely enough, Queen. When I was kid my mom bought me the Queen album with Another One Bites the Dust but I was...
I am going to leave this alone because I think everything is probably cool and I guess it really does not matter. One of the things I tend to forget, as the first poster mentioned, is that Facebook...
Yeah, I probably should just let it go and not bring it up. She never really struck me as a big FB person and I know she has kind of an interesting past. Perhaps she needed to get off for other...
Okay, here is my random situation/question. I recently friended someone I am in a creative writing class with because we are working on a project together and I think she is pretty cool. After she...
Thanks for thought and I would like to quit but it is a tough situation. One of the factors I did not mention is that I relocated my family for the job and although we like where would live, and...
About three years ago I returned to a company I had previously worked for for over ten years but I came back in a sales role, after having spent years doing Account Management. I have always known...
I just came up with a 9 when I did the test, it looks like 4 is the most common. I think I may take the test again because I wonder if my answers may be related more to my current state of mind and...
Interesting responses....Thanks! Maybe I am not 100% INFP or I am more idealistic than most:happy:
Okay, so every four years, when the big election comes around, I start hearing the ghost of my youth, and my conscience, telling me that I should do something and get involved. Now although I...
Well, when I was a teenager, way back in the '80s, I had no idea what my personality type was so clearly you are ahead of the game;-) With that said, however, I have to say that my teenage years...
I am 41 and this is my perspective. I am still going through the feelings you mention and I am about to be in a career head on crash, as DWK, mentioned in his post. I think my problem as an...
First let me just say that this is a great post! I wouldn't say that we aren't built for work I just think that we have a hard time tolerating any job that we don't feel serves a purpose and...
Thank you for this awesome reply. I work in direct sales, which I hate, but the one thing I can honestly say is that to be successful long term you do need to provide value to customers. The...
Outside of winning the lottery, being born into wealth, or having a rich relative die, I am wondering if an INFP can ever become financially well off by their own hand. It just seems to me that...
All these replies have been extremely helpful and give me some things to think about. I will share a couple of things about myself. First, I currently work in the completely anti-INFP world of...
Thanks for the response and it sounds like many of the aspects you find rewarding are what would appeal to me as well. I never thought about being an ESL teacher but that sounds like another avenue I...
Okay, well my quest to find a career that truly fit's me continues. It occurred to me lately , after being told by my mother for the past fifteen years that I should be a teacher, that she might...
I live in a beach community about an hour north of LA and I like the following things: 1. The weather is awesome, it's always in the 60s and 70s. 2. It's easy to get everywhere. 3. Cost of...
I have to agree with others that believe being an INFP is a great thing. The issues I have had have come more from me fighting my type and pursuing careers, and relationships, which are just...
Thanks for posting this link! I think since we generally only hear about people after they are successful we forget how many times they have failed and how much failure it takes to achieve success.'
