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In this episode of the Personality Hacker podcast, Joel and Antonia explore the 4 work styles that influence INFJ careers.
Discover more about subtypes in Dr. Dario Nardi’s “The 64 Subtypes in Depth”
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In this podcast you’ll find:
- Why are Joel and Antonia discussing careers for each of the personality types?
- What are some popular career choices for INFJs?
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Introducing the INFJ subtypes by Dr. Dario Nardi.
- How to approach the concept of the four subtypes.
- Check out our previous podcast episode where Dario introduces the four subtypes of each personality type.
- The energy and flavor of the four subtypes.
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The four INFJ subtypes:
- Dominant subtype – how does this affect these INFJs’ communication skills?
- Creative subtype – how does this bohemian flavor of INFJ show up to the world?
- Normalizing subtype – how this subtype finds meaning in their work.
- Harmonizing subtype – why the strengths of these esoteric INFJs doesn’t lie in their communication skills.
- Which INFJ subtypes work well together?
- The benefits of being aware of your INFJ subtype – and what this means for your future growth.
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I loved this podcast, I took a 9-5 job over 8 years ago at first I was counting down the days to take a day off now I have some days saved up. Its beautiful to understand that im growing into another subtype. I have a question when you are more than one subtype as mentioned in the podcast what does that look like? Is it a one day Im leaning towards creative and bills forget to get paid and the next day its harmonizing and being drawn to more dominant types and having a hard time advocating for yourself?
I listened to this episode of your personality hacker podcast because I knew I am an INFJ but wasn’t so sure about my subtype. Now that I’ve listened to the entire episode I feel I have a bit of each. I am only 24 but I’ve seen myself in each of these. While in high school I was always so quiet, almost mute. I got perfect A’s and achieved much academically but I struggled with making friends. I was so focused on my studies, I thought if I joined an extracurricular activity I would miss out crucial information from my courses and would fail them. I graduated high school as Valedictorian but later regretted not joining minarets (parade dance performers) throughout my 4 years. I also regretted focusing more on my studies and not making an effort to make friends. It was almost like everyone had someone and I didn’t. I decided not to make the same mistake when in college, and I felt I tried but I still struggled with making friends because I did not enjoy the things they enjoyed. I liked my space and quiet and still do. I began working as a care taker and mentored children, and for 2 years I enjoyed it. It became draining because my coworkers did not make the job easy. I was always planning activities for the kids and tutoring/teaching them while stopping them from killing themselves and I felt I was the only adult present. Every one else on their phones. So I left and began working as a technical support specialist at a call center and it was okay; it kept me occupied but it was plenty of work and speaking to people over the phone gave me anxiety and drained me. I didn’t like people to yell at me for something I didn’t do or getting them the help they wanted. I took he job because it pays well. I left technical support to do appointments setting and its even worse that technical support. Its not fulfilling. I am bored almost all the time. I leave voicemails everyday and come back to the same routine everyday. I am calling it quits and now trying to venture into what I feel is my natural gift. I like to feel or do hands-on/practical things. I like to be out in the field, interacting more with people who are next to or in front of me. This does not mean a crowd, because crowds make me want to crawl back in my shell. Because of this, I no longer want to work a 9-5 job or work for anyone. I’d rather have my own business and work my own hours while investing in my creativity which I believe is hair dressing and styling or fashion designing.
I’ve been 3 of these INFJ subtypes – school through college, I appeared Normalizing – did well in school, endless endurance but I think it’s because I love to learn new things. I am the perpetual learner so I was able to throw myself into almost anything. Inwardly I’ve always felt that I’m a philosopher/shaman/sage – I started into meditation at the age of 15 and Eastern philosophies became a big part of my life for a long time. My dad’s idea was that I become a CPA so I normalized my way through that but it only took four years at it to decide I hated it. I’m great at math but it’s the environment and the people I dislike. I like helping/advising clients, did very well at that and got rave reviews from clients but most of the actual work was number crunching drudgery, and other accountant types were stiflingly boring. So I left that and went into computer programming. I liked the precision of it, the language aspect, loved working with users helping them get the systems they wanted. Left it after a few years when I hit the management level because I didn’t want to manage other programmers. Most of the programmers I met had very little in the way of social skills so once again, my coworkers were not a fit. I also love music and was involved in singing, and there was no time for that in either profession. So when my husband and I decided to start a family, I took over being the accountant/tech person for his business. That let me set (limit) my own hours, work at my own pace, have time for family and other pursuits I care about – writing, music, philosophy/shaman kinds of things. As a senior citizen now, I’m more the creative now, though I’ve become aware only in the last couple of years that I do indeed tend to be vulnerable to other people’s energies so I’ve had to do a lot of work on boundaries and recognizing my own needs. I feel that I chameleoned my way through most of my life just to get by (people pleasing) and I’m not interested in putting myself in situations where I don’t feel I can be authentic anymore. I’m still hugely involved in music and also doing some writing. The one type I don’t seem to have done is the Dominant. I’m comfortable singing in front of people and I took training when I was in the workforce to be able to get up and speak, but I’m not generally looking for an audience otherwise. I’m happy to write for an audience I can’t see so I’ve just recently started a blog. So I think I’m a creative INFJ now… we’ll see…
This was really exciting to listen to, because it completely matches with my experience as an INFJ-mistyping-as-ENFJ.
I started out “normalizing” : I was a quiet, introverted teenager (typically wearing “normal clothes” to blend in but with one very quirky accessory), doing really well in school…
…then I turned to “dominant” : I attended business school and got to practice public speaking and taking leadership roles. I distinctively remember “learning how to extravert” by watching how my friends did it. As a result, many people see me as an extraverted, outspoken person even though my experience of life is definitely INFJ – being called weird is the one constant throughout all these years !
After graduating I tried A LOT of different jobs, often feeling just enough off-mark to move on and try something else – financial counseling for entrepreneurs, being a camp counselor with young kids, career counseling for teenagers, working as a salesperson, working as a farm worker… and most recently growing herbs on a farm to make tea & balms for therapeutic uses.
Now I’m 32 years old and would like to transition to a more creative/harmonizing type of work, involving creating my own brand of esoteric herbal tea..! I want to be my own boss and I feel that this is what I can bring to the world – but I’m afraid of self-sabotaging, which is why I’m listening to this podcast and just signed up for one of your development programs.
One difficulty for me as I navigate the world of personality-career advice is that the careers mentioned for INFJs never have an outdoors component – so I have to hang on to my gut feeling that “outdoorsy farm work” is also a part of my personality, somehow, and find relatable advice in “indoorsy” careers. As I see it, medicinal herbs is definitely the most “INFJ” crop there is : you need to gather tons of information on the herb’s different uses to counsel them to your clients… who often need a good listening ear ! I’m mentioning this difficulty in case the feedback is useful, or if there is content that I’ve missed on this topic – in all cases I love the content created here, thank you !
Antonia your mind is incredible (:
Thank you