Taking the Road Less Traveled: Unconventional Career Advice for INFPs
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- In this video, Samantha Mackay, Lead Trainer at Truity, discusses the principles that INFPs need to apply to find a fulfilling career - without sacrificing their values.
INFP’s need a career that is in alignment with who they are and their personal values. The best career for an INFP also needs to allow them space, freedom and support to bring their vision for a better world to life. Because of this need, INFPs are rarely attracted to traditional career paths and seldom find value in conventional career advice.
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As an INFP, I always have lots of ideas, but I find it incredibly difficult to finish what I start. I have always had millions of hobbies which have never lasted too long. I thing that's the main reason why it's so hard for us to find jobs that suit us...
This is the Fi - Si loop...
So true so true..
I’m here because I’m lost. I’m so sick of being unhappy and unsatisfied in my jobs. I don’t know what to do, but I know I can’t keep going job to job anymore. I need to find my ‘it’ whatever ‘it’ might be.
I just don't get it when I look at other people and they seem to be able to at least tolerate it.
People tell me to just get used to it but the only way someone could possibly say that is if they weren't experiencing as great a degree of pain as I am when working.
Same boat. Feel guilty about it too because I should just 'suck it up', stop complaining and do my job. I'm a great employee but my interest and commitment fizzles out all too quickly. Sprinkled with depression, makes it hard to navigate emotional vs logical priorities
I feel the same😢
Hey, I relate so well to this. Just curious, have you found something that interests you?
You must go deeper into your hobbies and interests. If you can get satisfaction from your outside work activities it will increase your life satisfaction and make your job less of a bother. And if you don't like your job you can always change it to something that might not be perfect but a better alternative to sustain your life. But by going further into your true interests and developing skills around those along with some creativity you can potentially find ways to make money with those but more over lead a more fulfilled life with personal significance. If you stop learning and developing yourself you will ultimately be miserable and continue to be stuck and not take the appropriate actions to create a better life for Yourself. Having a lot of money is great but I would rather have a lot of genuine happiness than a job I hate with money. Just my thoughts on the matter, I know you can figure something out if you think about it some and start to take action
anything relatet to art and helping people, animals or the environment and fighting for justice💚 here are some of my ideas:
actor, psychologist/therapist, musician (teacher), artist, writer, designer, editor, journalist, photographer, kindergarten teacher, theater pedagogue, nurse, social worker, motivational speaker, librarian, lawyer, vet, scientist, nutritionist
I remember one time I quit intensive care nursing to write a childrens book for a month. I’ve been a nurse for 10 years now but that leap of faith was the best thing I ever did in my career life.
Now I’m in another gruelling healthcare job and I struggle to let my partner see the reasoning behind me wanting to let go and chill out. I need that chill space to write new stories, play violin or teach myself chemistry. I’m 33
Sometimes we just need a little space and change, I hear you
I thought nurse is kind of what fits INFP. Or is there some kind of nurses that work? Or not work?
@@0MZetO Nursing can be admirational but its very taxing and not fulfilling creatively. I am not here to be admirational but i do have a morgage to pay
as an infp i'm going to watch this everyday for motivation as i try to get my career started
I was thinking the same thing!
been working since i was 11 and i feel like i need this more than ever.
Me too! Thank you for the suggestion lol - I must do the same. 💞
I always had these feelings of introversion but a desperate need for connection, feeling stuck and complacent in analytical jobs I didn’t feel valued in. I thought my day dreaming of being a creative director/ consultant and using my skills to help others was just me being spacey and idealistic. Then I take the mbti and I realize there’s a community of ppl who feel the same way and face the same conundrum of trying to find where they would fit in the world. I’m so happy to feel validated and that others on similar paths trying to find their own path of self fulfillment and fulfilling others. I wish you all a safe travel on your journey into becoming the you you want to be
I'm an INFP and I've always wanted to help others, and make a career out of Counseling, but truthfully, I don't want to go through the arduous process. I prefer a more artistic, creative, and spontaneous journey. I think the possibility of that happening to me makes me excited to live, and breathe, and honestly wake up in the morning. Perhaps, the traditional path is not for me. INFP's are told that we have a rich inner world, and for me that couldn't be more true. But at the same time, I'm afraid... carving out my own path feels daunting and filled with risks. Our society offers so many paths... pre-carved paths, but is that really an adventure? I suppose what I want is adventure. Hmmm... 😌✨
As an INFP I taught and loved it. I was unconventional and sometimes felt like a round peg in a square hole when dealing with the "SYSTEM" BUT my students had a blast and learned a lot. Parents were happy too.
Hi. What age did you teach?
Unfortunately the only things we can do are either artistic which don't pay enough to live......OR require a degree.
The struggle is real! I think you and I both need to challenge our assumptions about what is possible. I often play the safe game which has no heart or passion to it. That’s not gonna accomplish anything exceptional, especially when we live in the world of infinite possibilities. I believe you can create a kick ass career in art if you give 💯 % of yourself, 💓+soul-same goes for a business. The question I have next is -are we ever 💯 % committed? I love learning…it has an optional nature that leads me to believe it’s my free will rather than a requirement. Also a side note I have noticed lately it’s very likely I will be in love with potentially anything new for 24-48hrs and then never get back to it…take my advice don’t make any significant purchases of anything over $250 between the I just discovered “It” phase thru day 3😑oh my I have just wasted so much money because wanting “it” is captivating.
Seattle Jones-absolutely!
@@seattlejones2908 art is very subjective. Doesn't matter what your skill level is. Its all on how marketable you are, which is hard to do. I mean if raw talent paid the bills.....well, anything on the radio would be pretty much homeless people at this point. Zero talent, zero originality.
I'm just saying for me. Which I've been working on myself a lot. I'm consistently testing as an INFJ now. So there is still hope I can actually accomplish shit now.
Still, the absolute most important aspect for a career for me (over creativity) is autonomy. Being able to have a great work life balance is critical. Unfortunately at least in the PNW its expected you work 45-60hrs a week almost anywhere you go.
I'm an INFP studying structural engineering and I really love it!
Therefore it's been really discouraging sometimes to always hear that the best career paths for INFPs are art, literature, psychology....etc
Even though I do find those fields interesting and I find myself reading and learning about them often.. I don't really want to make a career out of them..
So it's been really confusing for me especially since I took so many tests and watched so many videos and INFP is the only type that completly resonates with me.... except the career choices that is xD
It's hard because it sometimes makes me doubt whether I can make it in the engineering field even though I love it and I'm doing really well so far...
I feel the same way. I also want to be an engineer, but I feel like I’m just not made to do it and that other people fit more into those fields than me.
@@toad4112 We are creaters. I believe that in engineering you create stuff. So engineering is a valid career choice (especially if you enjoy it) :D
Yo if this ain’t the most infp thing I’ve ever read xD. More power to you I hope you and all of us infps make it.
Hey Anne, I'm an INFP, and I made it as an Electrical Engineer and worked for 2 and a half years at a firm. I am now looking for a different career because I never enjoyed engineering, but my point is, yes, it is possible for INFPs. Since you're different from me in the sense that you actually enjoy what you're studying, you may thrive in this field. The only thing I wonder is how you'll utilize your degree. I don't think you'd enjoy doing constant projects over the same thing. I think you'd enjoy the research area of it better. It may not be the case, and you know yourself better than anyone, so go wherever you desire. I wish you luck
Just make sure to try an internship whilst you're still at uni :) just to check
Someday i just wanna quit everything and move to a small town and start a new life keep my profile low and do a simple living.
I wanted to be a food delivery guy and serve people at restaurants.(without being judged)
And sometimes I wanna jump into politics and bring a change into society!!
It's either a simple life or powerful.
There's no in between !!
Do you get it ?
Finding your path can be tricky, sometimes it does feel like we are torn between extreme dreams, but somewhere in the middle is your path. It can be hard to see but it will emerge for you.
I'm watching this with a tear in my eye. I'm working a job where I'm getting way above what an average person here is getting but just a few days ago I wrote an email my boss requested to be dropped to lower position. I don't like what I'm doing and yet I don't clearly know what I want to do.....and I'm 31 years old!!!
You'll get there 🧡
Dude!!its exactly what i did a month ago, i was planning quiting my job, though i am 2nd person in charge right under the owner at the moment and my job is pretty good, i just feel like this isnt where i belong.. I feel something is missing, and yet i dont understand what it is.. Be strong man!!
I feel you bruh!
heyyy... I can'totally understand how it feels! you must feel so helpless! I wish for you to gain clarity.. but know that the universe has it's own timing and just becuase you're not there, dosen't mean you'll never get there... you have your pace, and I respect it! embrace this time :) easier said than done, but sending you loads of abundance!
Are you me?
Great advise. The only problem is at least here in BC, Canada every job I’m interested in wants 2-5 years of experience so trying new things to see what works is incredibly difficult. Volunteer opportunities in different fields can also be limited. So it’s basically begging an organization to let you shadow them which can feel awkward. I know it’s really the only option though. But I wish we lived in a world that made it easier to gain experience and explore options.
Shadowing is awkward. And getting those first few years of experience feels daunting. But you do have value to offer right now, so instead of feeling like you are begging, reframe it into something that makes you feel empowered and energised.
I’m currently trying the CZcams comments career. It’s a very competitive field.. but I think I have something significant to offer at the bottom of a 2540 comment scroll.
Yes! So good
You're my spirit animal
@@rebecca8647 Hahahaha am gonna use this comment someday or in next 5mins
write a story about it and maybe you'll rise to the top of the comments section😁
Thank you for this video. I've been trying to figure out what i want in life and it's been so so so heart wrenching because people don't realize that as an infp, i NEED to feel good about work. I'm finally trying to do something i want to do and not what my parents envisioned me to do.
Releasing all the expectations from others, and sometimes even those we place on ourselves, can be very challenging and definitely takes deliberate effort to release. Keep trying different things, something will feel right for you 🧡
I wish I had seen this video 30 years ago. Now at age 52, with lots of financial necessities… It’s hard to chop and change and try something new!
But….it can be done!!!!!!
its never too late!
It’s not a voice that says it’s too big it’s bills that need to get paid now. They won’t wait! Great video things I needed to hear!
Thanks so much, I really needed this right now!!
It's the only career guidence video with which i can connect so well
So refreshing & liberating to hear.
I took notes, thank you!
Very useful, thank you!
Thank you so much for this.
This was so helpful! Thanks so much
Ohh wow, the best video I came across as a lost INFP (and I searched a loooot) :D Thank you, amazing tips!
This really helps a lot! Thank you for making this!
A really genuine video! Thanks a lot! 💖
Thanks for this insightful video and advice Samantha!! Very timely, as many others have also noted 👍🏻❤️ Couldn’t agree more with the point made around the need for variety, trial and error and constant, gradual adjustment to eventually tailor a career that ticks the majority boxes. Emphasis being on ‘gradual’ and ‘most’. There’s no such thing as the perfect career/vocation.
Thank you so much for this guys
This is a great video. Letting go and going with the flow can be looked down upon by our society but that's kind of how we INFP's operate so we have to find a way that we can incorporate this practice in our lives. I was blessed to have worked for a mentor friend and would work for his company for about a year and then find something that caught my interest and would go off to try that job for a bit and go back to work for my mentor friend and he was always willing and even wanted me to come back so I always had a safe place to land after my many exploring episodes.
I wanted to be a businessman to help people but was having doubts because of my personality types but I'm suree now, I will take the path less travelled.
Fabulous!
same. I’m introverted and don’t like to talk to others
Infps prefer to working alone for most parts therefore career paths that give them visual results and client/ customer satisfaction cud b. ideal too... software, data analytics, etc etc anything that gives them their space cud be an ideal choice as well.
I've been a technical recruiter for over 10 years. To me it has been a good path. Ofc, sometimes I can't stand the corporate life and I cry a lot, but I've been able to manage it
Working in corporate definitely requires compromises. But if its works for you then that is all that matters!
Thank you for your compassion.
It was a very sound advice especially the last one.
Thank you 🙏🏻
being INFP in the philippines IS HELL. i don't know what kind of job i want
I wish i was in some western country. India as well not made for INFPs
Is there a club for people INFP
Online, I feel lost and need to communicate and share with someone like us
Bless you
My issue is, I have my passions and I can make them into a job(writing/creating) but I’m also an idealist and for some reason my ideal job would have an unrealistic amount of significance. I need it to actually matter. Im having trouble finding the significance in fiction writing and it would be hard to see the fruits of my labor(the impact it’s having on others).
When I was a missionary for two years, my mind was at peace because I believed that my life was full of significance, I was helping people on a day to day basis, but on the flip side, I didn’t feel passionate in the way that I was doing it.
I once said to someone that despite my love for it YA fiction was frivolous, and she set me straight, that all fiction, all writing has significance. All fiction serves a purpose - it helps people in all different ways - to heal, to escape, to imagine, to dream, to hope, to grow, to gain new perspectives. Maybe it's about figuring out what is significant to you. What do you want to write about in your heart of hearts? That you have been hesitant to let out? What kind of writing would fulfil you, no matter how hard to write? And, maybe get some external information about why fiction matters to people. Try attending a writers festival and asking people about their favourite book and how it changed their lives.
@@TruityLabs that’s awesome! Thank you, that really helps alot 😊
INFPs are the hippies of MBTI 😄
INFP with PTSD is just hardmode for no reason.
thanks
@ 1:30 I felt that!
Wow perfect thank you! I quit my job two months ago. Wasn't for me on many levels! I never want to work for anyone but me ever after that! I do part time work with my wife as a sound healer. It's very well received! I'm considering restarting a part time gig I did on the side. I was doing storytelling therapy/sound therapy. The few clients I had always came back and I felt real good about that work but I'm now about to take the dive more full-time and it's abit yikes! I'm hesitate wondering if as an INFP curious is therapy type work is a good call in the long range? Are INFPs known to get burnt out being empaths? Any thoughts out there? I'm also thinking of getting my writing out (people respond well to it as well)! I'm trying to get clear how to market myself with all these skills to offer! Thanks again, the video is great advise!
Thanks for this, as an INFP it has me thinking about my experience to date-which unknown to me at the time was full of INFP reasoning. Unfortunately much influenced also by long term health condition. So, the two things have often given me a choiceless choice. The understanding of ourselves and our decision making is vital. Process not results-all that. Everything else will come from a solid ground
that comes from being true to ourselves.
@@rachelclare8795 Well written! Ya totally!
I am an INFP.
I started my career in a NGO i was satisfied with my Job but not with the Pay.
Since Photography is my hobby I started to do Comission works. (As secondary income)
But later I started to dislike doing Photography for money.
So I quit my JoB and stopped doing Photography (just commission works) and thought I'll take a break and figure out what i actually need !!
And COVID Happened!!!
2yrs went in a Blink !!
And today I am a Wedding Photographer i do it full time !!
I make enough for a living!!
But I am still not happy taking money for my work but i don't have a choice.
Money isn't bringing me job satisfaction or peace.
I miss something and don't know what it is !!
And my relationship is a different planet 😂
What if you forget about the money pretend you're doing it just to help your clients and because you enjoy it?
What if we want to have career in IT/Marketing.
I’m sorry this seems unhelpful and unrealistic. I hope one day I’ll be in a place financially to not be limited by reality, but that day very well may never come. What is the advice for people who are very literally stuck in their circumstance? Those who have no foundation to build upon? How do you build the foundation and not hate your life in the meantime?
maybe entry level gov job... you'd have stability financially and not to demanding work environment but still have the potential to move up.
You explained my life I have experience but the careers I would be happy with, I would have had a totally different life to be able to even go to college. I still did well for myself in life but I recently quit a job (I had to)! I’m lost in a single mom. But I will have faith things will turn around
ok off-topic. She is so cute 🐰🐰🥰
iam an infp with generalized anxiety disorder.how to get back to life
46. and i want to die.
Jesus loves you
You alive ?
Every one of us is just tap dancing on the surface of this world, pretending to know what we're doing. So long as there is life, there is hope, no matter how insignificant it may be at times. These words may seem ignorant or even hollow to you, but my intentions when typing them down are genuine nonetheless. 46 is still fairly young. Hell, if you ask me, oftentimes 'being old' has a lot to do with one's mindset more so than their physical age (I'm 20 years old and I already feel like my life is reaching its end)! All we can do is try, it's what we humans are best at. Our past mistakes can help us be more cautious in the present, and make better calls in the future. I don't know where you are now or if you'll ever come across this reply, but I hope you're still out there somewhere, breathing, battling, existing...
Take care.
@@mitsuhaha5574 Thank you, I appreciate your response... you're insightful.
What is Samantha's type?
ENTP
samantha what is your mbti type?
Samantha's type is ENTP
I can't afford to be an infp
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I keep moving around and becoming increasingly more unhappy finding out there is absolutely no career path that will see me sticking around long enough to make enough to get into my dream which is owning my own little farm where i farm for me and my neighbors only and work a whatever job that i tolerate for like 30 hours a week
Also doesn’t help that i hate my culture and therefore am hopeless in finding a mate. Doing anything outside of a small friend circle is torture especially by hour 4. and i’m not going to attract a mate constantly looking and being uncomfortable.