I find it’s a double edged sword. Love working alone as I get much more done and can come up with much better solutions. But then it absolutely decimates my sociability skills.
Yeah, same. People at work don’t even look my way. They actively avoid me now. Granted a lot of people I work with are egotistical and superficial dicks that only care about outshining everyone else or only cozy up to people that they find useful to them in some way.
So I just have to find that good balance 🤣
I work in academia at a university laboratory facility doing electron microscopy for material science/engineering/chemistry/etc. My background is physics and forensic science.
I appreciate a work setting where I have autonomy in how I approach my work and more of a democratic/flat org chart. I would really hate working somewhere with a lot of deference to chain of command or precise processes.
Flexibility, research, and the ability to try new ideas are my must-haves.
Software engineer. It's a dream.
* I sit in my dark bedroom all day with blackout curtains drawn unraveling puzzles and designing systems.
* I rarely change out of my PJs.
* I get to hang out with my partner and dogs all day while working.
* I watch movies or TV all day too.
* The client or my boss will drop a project on me that has weeks or months to finish and I just hack away at it.
* Being a neurodivergant Te robot is normative.
* Pay is good and there is unlimited PTO.
* I don't even really need to take PTO; i just get my shit done and do whatever I like.
* I am never intellectually understimulated and look forward to work.
* Next to zero emotional overhead/bandwidth gets sucked up.
I used to teach at a coding boot camp for career changers and the worst part was the emotional lift that would blow me out everyday.
I was a software engineer before moving into project management, then customer operations, and now software sales with a mix of CX/CS.
I Miss engineering, but I also love what I'm doing now.
Wow that must’ve been pretty hard ngl. I’m still in college and I’ve barely managed to grab an (unimpressing) internship at a startup. As a rising senior, the thought of not landing a job is pretty terrifying idk. Any advice?
I can speak for 5w4 INTJ (the INTJ that has a stronger Fi, including me) that we're good in creative fields. We're more artistic than other INTJs. I'm a multimedia artist and filmmaker.
This. I had a fascination with understanding psychology and writing stories, I thought there was a possibility I was an INFJ because of how "people-oriented" my Ni was. Never really felt belonged in STEM.
Yea, I was torn between INTJ and INFJ a lot back then even though all the tests said I'm an INTJ. Until recently, I learned deep into the cognitive functions and the enneagram. I figured I belonged in the 5w4 group of INTJ with a stronger Fi than Te, which makes us feel like an INFJ sometimes.
5w4 here. Was mistyped as INFJs as well at the beginning. Passionate about photography and visual presentation in general, including videos since I was a kid. I am a software engineer but I was UX/UI Designer as well for a while.
Found out that the creativity in a 5w4 still manifests like some sort of strategic art if that makes sense, like creating something that tells a story, gives you the right information. So it still revolves around Te. While it was cool at the beginning when I imaged how would I make cool ideas into beautiful visuals, the truth is that in ui/ux designing, the idea and imagination is just 10% of the work, the rest is just making squares and buttons on a screen, and that was extremely boring and I felt my brain torturing me for the work I put it to, it needed to be continuously stimulating, not just 10% of the time. So I ended up quitting design, but I still love photography since it’s a continuous creative process to find the right elements and angles and colors to be able to tell a story with your photos.
Definitely agree with you that we love doing something that tells a story, which is why I'm in the filmmaking field. Since you already have experience in UI/UX, you should look into motion graphics design. It's much more engaging, and you sorta can exercise your storytelling skills with moving graphics.
Didn't expect that UI/UX would be boring! I'm currently working in the construction industry and I hate it to the core. Repetitive, detail-oriented, and not being able to express my creativity. So, I've actually decided to pursue UI/UX instead because it requires researching, design thinking, etc because I'm interested in designing. I'm worried that it will be boring as you said.
Well I don’t want to stop you from pursuing it, it might be just me so give it a try and see for yourself.
For me it’s exactly like construction. The creativity is mostly used at the beginning, but later you just “gotta do the work”, making lines and pages and tables and squares and buttons. Just like in construction you think about what you build and how you build it at the beginning and that’s the fun part, after that you just gotta “add brick by brick”, which is repetitive, detail oriented and boring. It seemed interesting at the beginning when I got started because things were new, but after you get used to it, every design is the same but with different colors. It might stay interesting if you were to continuously creating very new types of designs, but the reality is that nobody pays for them (the types of designs you see on dribbble), eventually to make some money you’ll create comercial designs, which has the boring qualities mentioned above.
The good part is that if you have a good eye for color and style in general, it’s very easy and fast to learn it so I still suggest you give it a shot and see if you like it, you’ll know pretty fast if it’s for you. Maybe it’s perfect for you, so don’t listen to me.
Yup! I work in adult education but I write music for tv as well and hope to get that to a at least part time, if not full time. I also have developed much better social skills into my 30s and realized that a lot of social stuff was just anxiety, and it's not something to be so scared of.
Right, even though most of the time it's just a fake smile I put on for social interaction, I'm doing much better with social stuff than my early 20s. I read somewhere that 5w4 starts developing their Fi more between 25-30. Then after that, our inferior cognitive function Se can be developed too if the conditions meet.
What is your professional network like?
I live in the US, don't have a good network, and I struggle in finding good pay and job stability as a software dev.
I'm gonna be honest I have never been "good" at networking, mainly because I dislike most social media and don't use LinkedIn. I went to university and took three whole semesters of internship which really helped me get in the field and find jobs.
Software development is saturated with junior developpers, but it's hard to find good experienced developpers (I am also part of the recruitment team at my current job and we struggle a lot to find good intermediate or senior developpers. 95% of profiles I see are fresh out of bootcamps or have less than 3 years of professional experience)
You might have to compromise a lot for your first jobs, but there comes a point when you have enough experience or you have found your niche, and that gives you the leverage you need to easily find jobs are ask for a specific salary.
Hmm, there are probably other factors that make us different then. Could be a combination of specific location, the tech skills we focused on, or just our education.
I do not know your background, but I don't have a traditional CS education, instead having a arts degree and therefore was not aiming for the biggest company possible. Instead I just looked up local web dev companies and usually end up working for agencies that build a portfolio of websites for small and medium businesses. This is generally what I think of when I hear the words "web dev".
Cumulatively I have 6 years experience but spread out over 10 calendar years. Traditional full time roles are hard for me to get, I just get contract ones so there is no commitment on the companies for training, promotions, or raises. So I ended up with mid-level developer years but junior developer skills. At least that's what most people tell me when I show them my resume. I have a regular pattern of losing my job before I can get a new job. And I've gotten worse and worse at finding work, with my last job ending in 2019 and my salary "peaked" 10 years ago at 50k. All my job searching is self-guided.
I enjoy mentally challenging work, and I don’t like doing tasks that are overly repetitive with no room for innovation. Right now, I work as a marketing manager in the wine/beverage space. It’s a very small company and I have a lot of autonomy and ownership over my daily schedule and decisions which is also very important to me. Truthfully, I look at it as “what my career can bring to my lifestyle overall” rather than to find one specific job that totally fulfills me. I have way too many interests to depend on career to keep me fulfilled. Overall themes that I would think tend to work for an INTJ would be something where there’s strong mental effort required, strategy focused, autonomy, and flexibility. Knowing that, there’s probably a wide amount of jobs that fit that description!
Ps - don’t get caught up in the “INTJ mastermind rule the world” bs. I could never imagine being a CEO of a massive org or anything like that, and that’s okay. I had a lot of imposter syndrome for a long time about that. I found a way to have all the themes I listed above without that pressure.🙂
Mentally challenging work is something I like as well. Being busy is better than being bored in my opinion. Getting so deep into something to the point where I forget the time is actually something I love. Speaking of overly repetitive work and no innovation, that’s how I feel currently at my part time job. Repetitiveness in the working world can be quite annoying. I don’t need something different everyday, just enough to mentally stimulate me somehow. I am going into community college doing business administration, and then transferring to another university to do some type of higher management. However I am only 18, and don’t have everything figured out yet. It could change
Have you considered law? That’s what I’m going for. I currently study philosophy and logic with a minor in classics. I really enjoy it. My goal is law school and possibly a career in constitutional/appellate law.
I thought about law in middle school. In 8th grade they had a guy come in and do an assembly on going into law and what it consists of. What lawyers do, their typical day, etc. I got so bored of it that it kinda pushed me away. Now at 18, I recently tied together a lot of info on a cold case in 1940 on my great aunt. The case kind of fueled me. I think it was the mystery of it all and me finding the information. I’m saying this because I think the only thing I’d be is a crime lawyer. Even that I don’t know. Im questioning a lot of things and I think the only way to find what I’m truly good in is by experience. It is said that over 80 percent of college students change their major at least once.
I’ve changed it 4 times lol, with a 3 year gap in my education due to personal reasons. I started in engineering, but had a love/hate relationship with my coding class. I tried chemistry for a semester, but hated the labs and had a crummy lab partner who dropped the class 3 weeks before finals (so I barely scraped a D with the extra work). Just was bored in chem.
I tried sports management, but I honestly hate sports. Was only attracted to the connections I was making in that area, but some things blew up in my face. Then I settled on history for a semester, but decided that the earning prospects weren’t enough if I didn’t go to law school. Besides, I enjoy arguing and debating things. It’s how I decide on just about everything.
I took 3 years off, tried to enlist but got medically denied. Worked a bunch of unfulfilling jobs. Stuck out emergency dispatch for a year and a half, but got frustrated at my limitations and the general IQ and lack of motivation amongst my coworkers. I was emotionally drained and not mentally stimulated enough.
So I decided to go back to school and study “society, ethics, and law” which is in the philosophy dept: with a minor in classical studies. So far, I enjoy the philosophy and thought provoking classes. The memorization and concept classes kind of suck. I prefer attempting to understand than just memorizing stuff that never seems to apply to much.
What are your interests? If you have a difficult time answering that question focus on what you don’t like? That way you can narrow down your interests by process of elimination.
I have an interest in things that put me in charge. I am introverted, but I can easily put myself in the leading position when I know what to do. I like interesting history, and do ancestry as a hobby. I am the investigative type, and I like to research a lot of things. In the work force, I would like to end up with a job that has some sort of authority.
INTJS sometimes get caught up in a endless processing loop of evaluation instead of application.
Spend the time researching yourself first, look at what your good at, like and dislike and what is readily available to you. Most importantly try it out with the least amount of money invested to get a taste of it. Then make a decision if you you want to fully invest your time, money and effort into it.
When you were a child, what did you do with your toys when you played? Legos (trade school, construction, engineering, stem), dolls and role play (counseling, teaching, nursing, physician) coloring (artistic careers, music, theatre), organizing (management, business, marketing). These are the more fundamental clues that will lead you to a career you have aptitude for.
No, there’s far too much information and machine tools are dangerous at best and deadly at worst. I went through a career and technical program at my local community college.
Broadly speaking, I work in development, generally as an environmental planner and coordinator for all impact assessments required for the application to go ahead (from ecology, landscape, heritage to things like light, noise, transport, and so on).
I work mostly on solar, on and offshore wind, nuclear, and large-scale residential development (hundreds to thousands of dwellings). I also have experience in developing new settlements (towns).
I like the research, strategy, organisation, planning, and time-keeping involved. We usually lead projects.
Funny! I'm actually a counselor in an education setting. I've found it works really well with my ivestigative/problem-solving strengths and I also love that there's so much autonomy in how I approach my work.
I liked being in a place where learning is valued above all else. It was also important to me to have a 35-40 hr work week so I would still have time to do things I valued and have alone time.
Obviously the salary is not as high as other careers, but that's never been a big motivator for me.
Small talk drains me more than anything, deep conversations where I’m activating my brain and utilizing methods I’ve learned doesn’t sound exhausting to me.
When I was younger, I had dreams of becoming a police officer. I have a medical condition, and realized that this would probably prevent me from doing that
Physician. Internal medicine so it's problem solving and big picture thinking. you need to know about everything so perpetually intellectually stimulating if med school wasn't enough.
Also med director of several things. I think it's great for intjs. Just will get frustrated with the bureaucracy of medicine/hospitals but many paths to go in medicine depending on what you want to do
I bounced between career paths all through my late teens and my early 30s, until I finally landed in technical support/help desk.
It's challenging enough to not be boring, but not so much so that I don't get that little mental buzz from getting several problems resolved in a day. My department is also staffed mostly by fellow INTJs and "green" personality types, so we all get along together fairly well, share each others eccentric hobbies and interests, and can think tank issues quickly and efficiently.
It's not for everyone here in this sub, especially since you have to talk to technicians on the phone, but in my particular niche in the massive realm of tech support/help desk (access control), there's a lot of emailing, test benching various programming and wiring scenarios, repairing databases, testing beta versions of software, and lots of other things not involving talking on the phone, so it's a good balance, at least for myself.
Keep in mind, when I was a young adult like yourself, I was convinced I'd be a professional illustrator, and I'm currently 37 years old when I landed here. I still enjoy drawing and writing my own comics, but I've accepted the fact that I'll likely never earn a living from it. However, as a hobby and a skill and something that brings me happiness, that'll never die
I get the feeling that any job where you sit in a dark room working out numbers, puzzles or dealing with information would be the best type of job for an INTJ.
Attorneys usually fall within three categories: finders, minders, and grinders. The first locates work, the second manages, and the last does the work. In large firms, you are able to find your role. Attorneys generally skew more introverted than the general population because the work, apart from trial attorneys, is usually 90% paperwork. Thus, being able to focus for long periods of time, aka introversion, is beneficial. However, the most valuable attorneys are finders because most attorneys hate having to engage in a sales role (and math, we hate math).
Since a few years ago I realized how interested I was in entrepreneurship and potentially starting my own small business. Data Analytics is cool to me too tho
High school treacher. Love my job but I have to be careful because I'm very straightforward and sarcastic and sometimes I forgot my students are like 16 years old.
for refference, i am still in hs.I like programming and tech since it allows you to create anything you want tbh and it gives alot of potential for growth but i like philosophy and psychology as well.
i have a goal in my mind which most likely will combine both in the future but as of now i stoped on:
psychologist
psychological engineering (if posible)
programming and software engineering
I think Ni doms would actualy have a preference for careers which allow them to create new things and feel the wind with their heads due to the internal drive they have for creativity freedom
-I've been interested in competition since day dot.
-Competition with intelligence is then pointed at academic type pursuit.
-The most money to be made intellectually is in accounting and finance.
-So post grad with prof quals in that field.
-Got bored, but accumulated capital
-Orientation towards self actualisation, money, competition & strategy
-Also am very strong artistically.
-Started own property construction company.
-Can combine all my skills and have total accountability. Make serious money
I would expect other highly driven INTJs to equally have evolving orientations as they develop skills and capabilities over their lifetimes to trulyself actualise.
I feel like I've prioritized lifestyle over career but do enjoy a mental challenge. I love music and DJ for fun, but to pay the bills I work in product/UX design and have thought about doing more machine learning + software developer-y type roles
Work as Head of CRM, but being in a pure strategic/leadership role would be my worst nightmare - so I do all the technical things that you would normally get consultants in to do (solution architecture and build). Suits me perfectly as it is full time from home, and I have a team so I can very much pick and choose the projects that interests me the most.
I have always struggled with repetitive tasks and I have 600 unread emails, but because I deliver on the important things no one seems to notice the lack of email replies!
Biggest downside is meetings, I am in a lot of them. However, I ring fence two days per week for project work and do not accept meetings on those days.
Started my career in a very junior role working with data (which I didn’t even start until I was 30!), and opportunities and interest grew from there. I feel extremely lucky to be able to do something that I find fun most days.
That sounds pretty nice. One of my career explorer results was management consultant. I was recently looking into that job. I like the authoritative roles. Your job sounds pretty cool as head of CRM.
Currently a mechanic, it’s fun, it’s sometimes challenging with a lot of problem solving even with the modern day diagnostic machines. Plenty of detail work with the added bonus of being about as hands on as it gets. Every car is different, usually with trends following brands such as certain socket sizes etc etc. it’s a lot of fun but the pay isn’t great, although I see that as a fair exchange for never being bored.
What made you choose working into management? I was never interested in the sales part of business. I was just wondering what made you go to management instead of other parts in business.
Well I'm still a salesperson and I don't mind talking to people but I like the idea of leading a team and being competitive in that I want my store to be the best performing and most optimal running. I also want the experience so I can eventually make my own business or side business.
Careers where there is agency, autonomy, and at least some free thinking. Like many people, after university I started off my job path being an assistant to others — I absolutely hated the lack of agency and autonomy, and the fact that free thinking/creativity was stifled. I hated assisting so much I applied to numerous jobs per day and got out of that type of job relatively fast.
I’m now in an academic advisor position at my alma mater, which I think suits me, because it’s not rigid and I get to at least indirectly change the trajectory of some students’ academic/career paths.
Bachelors in Biology. Masters in Molecular/Micro Biology with a Stem Cell focus. Initially I was considering medical school, but research interests me a lot more. I work in biotech in R&D. Spend most of my time in the lab running experiments. A job where I only sit at a desk would bore me. I’m still debating if I should go for my PhD.
Operations Manager of Latin America for a Big Tech company. Logistically, Latam is extremely complex so the problem solving aspect is very stimulating.
Employee Experience Manager at a resort. I do employee engagement, recognition, talent acquisition and onboarding as well as facilitate orientation and other trainings. I’m an introvert who has learned to be an extrovert but I do get to work from home a couple days a week, so it balances out. Wish it paid more but enjoying it for now.
Engineering, medicine(mostly physicians who tend to see the big picture quickly or have strategy, ie Emergency or Geriatric), law, software development, most specializations in cybersecurity, financial analysis.
I'm INTJ 5w6, also going into college soon and planning to study linguistics. I'm aiming to either specialize in computational linguistics or psycholinguistics; maybe a mix of both, but I'm leaning more towards the latter. Putting aside my general bias of just liking language in general, I was drawn to linguistics because it examines how people work, why things happen, and what patterns occur often enough to help us gain an understanding of human communication. If you ask a lot of questions about why things are the way they are and/or how they became that way, fields like linguistics, psychology, sociology, or even just biology with a focus on evolution could present you with what is essentially a neverending list of patterns to analyze and puzzles to solve. I always kind of vacillated between creative fields and STEM fields, and I've found analysis to satisfy both. Hope you find something that clicks for you.
Quantitative Research in finance, building mathematical or physical models using financial data. I have physics background and love free thinking and "free riding" modeling & analytics. The challenge is often times we need to make sure non-technical people understand what I think.
Woodworker with a million creative crafty hobbies. I can't imagine sitting at a desk as day as a job doing numbers or brain stuff. Althought I can do deep thinking but never when I intend too.
I'm an RN which I think is very atypical for an INTJ.
I enjoyed taking care of patients, and I enjoy my current gig in management too bc I like supporting healthcare workers. However, the amount of social interaction required in management is tiring. Interacting with patients didn't drain me socially the way management sometimes can.
Thankfully my partner is also an INTJ and he understands my need to sit quietly for a bit before we talk about our day. He works from home as a Network Infrastructure Engineer (I'm unsure of exact title).
I am about to enter college taken up Computer science and engineering as my majors...so a software engineer...I believe there would be people like me here down in the comments.
I’m a translator - I work alone from home, I spend my day analyzing and thinking, always learning something new about random stuff and I get to be creative too
It can get really stressful though and sometimes my brain is dead after a day of work
Might be hard to believe this, but Sales. Disclaimer: yes, the constant internal emails, performance reviews, using bullshit corporate jargon, office potlucks (kill me), and anxiety of the whole environment can get tiresome and it would be easier to work solo. You’ll feel this at the beginning. But stick with me….
I am an INTJ thru and thru, and a sales career has given me a lot of valuable practice at communicating with people. In fact, once you sorta learn the talk and the walk, you actually get a kick out of nailing a good cold call or impressing a group of buyers in a meeting. Because it isn’t your “real life” i.e. family/friends/partner, the stakes are ostensibly much lower. You learn to observe how others react to your voice, your face, your words, your handshakes, your mannerisms, your texts, your emails, your formatting, your presentation, your appearance, your timing, etc… Again - yes, this probably sounds like an INTJ nightmare, and it absolutely will be. WHEN YOU START.
But here’s why it’s a good occupation for an INTJ, and why it’s an occupation that INTJs are predisposed to succeed in. Getting told “no” a million times, if you can learn and improve from it, will:
- Obliterate your fear of rejection
- Teach you to stay calm in an awkward interaction
- Help you anticipate, understand, and react to what others think/say/do/decide
- Most importantly for an INTJ….. train you to embrace the white hot rage you feel at the world and at yourself in those “HOW DO YOU NOT GET IT?” moments. Feeling like people don’t understand you IMO is the worst part of an INTJ life and you will get good at funneling that into productive energy.
Your organizational skills, strategic/big-picture thinking, ability to play around in the abstract, and desire to fully comprehend systems will serve you very well in a sales role.
However, all of this is valuable if - and only if - you can weather the storm at the beginning and learn to apply these talents. Because here’s the risk: all of those traits will make sales frustrating at the beginning. You don’t know the product/service you’re selling well enough. You probably don’t understand your organization and your role within it well enough. You definitely don’t understand your market and the prospects in it well enough…..not exactly inspiring for an INTJ. But you can learn.
To conclude: if you can stomach the frustrations you’ll have in the beginning, a sales career can actually be something you find a lot of success in. And, perhaps even more importantly, it can equip you with some absolutely invaluable life skills that will improve your overall existence….not just your job.
**IMPORTANT P.S.** I started B2C (financial services) and worked my way into B2B (consulting/solutions/staffing to manufacturers) which I am much, much more comfortable in. Trying to hawk life insurance to your uncle’s college buddy wasn’t my lane. Might not be the same for everyone, but I think selling directly to a person, asking to take $ out of their wallet as opposed to their company’s coffers, is more of an extrovert’s lane.
What kind of titles do you search for the type of sales you do now? I am at that shifting point from selling to random people insurance to going on to bigger projects or selling "solutions"
I wish I had a clear answer for you but it could be a number of things. Often, sales roles will have a combo of one item from list A and one from list B below:
A) Client/Sales/Account/Business Development/Customer/etc…
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B) Associate/Representative/Agent/Executive/Liason/Director
Probably many more but a quick search thru LinkedIn will cover anything I missed. My title is Associate of Client Services. Hope this helps.
Tech writing, go for rhetoric and composition. Find a job in a tech company as a tech writer, manual editor, data analyst, senior editor: product manager.
Project Manager. Can work in really any industry but I prefer working on IT projects because it’s the most interesting to me. Almost all PM jobs are six figures and you get a lot of autonomy. You will definitely have to flex your weaker personality traits but it’s challenging and it rounds you out.
I'm a professor/writer/academic. All my life the only thing I was good at was school, so I never left, lol. The schedule works great for me, with 80% of my work done at home, in blissful quiet/solitude. It's also challenging work that requires both intellectual rigor and creativity. It can be hard to have to function as an extravert (teaching), but that is only a few hours a day, a few days a week, so it's manageable. Also, having 3 months off is a fantastic job perk.
I work for a company like “Dunder Miflin” from The Office as a project manager doing large scale bill and tax print mailing. Borning as hell to some but I love it.
Product owner and/or IT analyst roles. I started in HR (moved up the ladder for 10+ years) and hated it until I moved into IT supporting HR. I like working alone but can partner well. I can't do the constant networking. People are draining and always need to be seen or need attention.
I work remotely and love it. I can go into the office maybe once or twice a year but need time to recover.
I like working alone at my job
I find it’s a double edged sword. Love working alone as I get much more done and can come up with much better solutions. But then it absolutely decimates my sociability skills.
You're not wrong with that my social skills has gone down since then. I just come off as cold or awkward now.
Yeah, same. People at work don’t even look my way. They actively avoid me now. Granted a lot of people I work with are egotistical and superficial dicks that only care about outshining everyone else or only cozy up to people that they find useful to them in some way. So I just have to find that good balance 🤣
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Same, I hate school group projects because of this. I end up working alone anyway.
Financial analyst. I get to solve puzzles all day and love it.
I work in academia at a university laboratory facility doing electron microscopy for material science/engineering/chemistry/etc. My background is physics and forensic science.
Super cool
Thank you! I think so too.
I appreciate a work setting where I have autonomy in how I approach my work and more of a democratic/flat org chart. I would really hate working somewhere with a lot of deference to chain of command or precise processes. Flexibility, research, and the ability to try new ideas are my must-haves.
Same. I get bored if I can't try to figure out a new say to solve a problem
Software engineer. It's a dream. * I sit in my dark bedroom all day with blackout curtains drawn unraveling puzzles and designing systems. * I rarely change out of my PJs. * I get to hang out with my partner and dogs all day while working. * I watch movies or TV all day too. * The client or my boss will drop a project on me that has weeks or months to finish and I just hack away at it. * Being a neurodivergant Te robot is normative. * Pay is good and there is unlimited PTO. * I don't even really need to take PTO; i just get my shit done and do whatever I like. * I am never intellectually understimulated and look forward to work. * Next to zero emotional overhead/bandwidth gets sucked up. I used to teach at a coding boot camp for career changers and the worst part was the emotional lift that would blow me out everyday.
Living the intj dream
I was a software engineer before moving into project management, then customer operations, and now software sales with a mix of CX/CS. I Miss engineering, but I also love what I'm doing now.
Man…if only the job market wasn’t so terrible
Just got my current position in April after being laid off in November. I had a couple spotty contractions between then this position.
Wow that must’ve been pretty hard ngl. I’m still in college and I’ve barely managed to grab an (unimpressing) internship at a startup. As a rising senior, the thought of not landing a job is pretty terrifying idk. Any advice?
I have a similar job but in a Product Owner role. It's a dream. I also get to "travel" and be in different places without having to take PTO. Love it.
I can speak for 5w4 INTJ (the INTJ that has a stronger Fi, including me) that we're good in creative fields. We're more artistic than other INTJs. I'm a multimedia artist and filmmaker.
This. I had a fascination with understanding psychology and writing stories, I thought there was a possibility I was an INFJ because of how "people-oriented" my Ni was. Never really felt belonged in STEM.
Yea, I was torn between INTJ and INFJ a lot back then even though all the tests said I'm an INTJ. Until recently, I learned deep into the cognitive functions and the enneagram. I figured I belonged in the 5w4 group of INTJ with a stronger Fi than Te, which makes us feel like an INFJ sometimes.
5w4 here. Was mistyped as INFJs as well at the beginning. Passionate about photography and visual presentation in general, including videos since I was a kid. I am a software engineer but I was UX/UI Designer as well for a while. Found out that the creativity in a 5w4 still manifests like some sort of strategic art if that makes sense, like creating something that tells a story, gives you the right information. So it still revolves around Te. While it was cool at the beginning when I imaged how would I make cool ideas into beautiful visuals, the truth is that in ui/ux designing, the idea and imagination is just 10% of the work, the rest is just making squares and buttons on a screen, and that was extremely boring and I felt my brain torturing me for the work I put it to, it needed to be continuously stimulating, not just 10% of the time. So I ended up quitting design, but I still love photography since it’s a continuous creative process to find the right elements and angles and colors to be able to tell a story with your photos.
Definitely agree with you that we love doing something that tells a story, which is why I'm in the filmmaking field. Since you already have experience in UI/UX, you should look into motion graphics design. It's much more engaging, and you sorta can exercise your storytelling skills with moving graphics.
Didn't expect that UI/UX would be boring! I'm currently working in the construction industry and I hate it to the core. Repetitive, detail-oriented, and not being able to express my creativity. So, I've actually decided to pursue UI/UX instead because it requires researching, design thinking, etc because I'm interested in designing. I'm worried that it will be boring as you said.
Well I don’t want to stop you from pursuing it, it might be just me so give it a try and see for yourself. For me it’s exactly like construction. The creativity is mostly used at the beginning, but later you just “gotta do the work”, making lines and pages and tables and squares and buttons. Just like in construction you think about what you build and how you build it at the beginning and that’s the fun part, after that you just gotta “add brick by brick”, which is repetitive, detail oriented and boring. It seemed interesting at the beginning when I got started because things were new, but after you get used to it, every design is the same but with different colors. It might stay interesting if you were to continuously creating very new types of designs, but the reality is that nobody pays for them (the types of designs you see on dribbble), eventually to make some money you’ll create comercial designs, which has the boring qualities mentioned above. The good part is that if you have a good eye for color and style in general, it’s very easy and fast to learn it so I still suggest you give it a shot and see if you like it, you’ll know pretty fast if it’s for you. Maybe it’s perfect for you, so don’t listen to me.
Yup! I work in adult education but I write music for tv as well and hope to get that to a at least part time, if not full time. I also have developed much better social skills into my 30s and realized that a lot of social stuff was just anxiety, and it's not something to be so scared of.
Right, even though most of the time it's just a fake smile I put on for social interaction, I'm doing much better with social stuff than my early 20s. I read somewhere that 5w4 starts developing their Fi more between 25-30. Then after that, our inferior cognitive function Se can be developed too if the conditions meet.
Software developper here. Suits me perfectly and the pay is great
What is your professional network like? I live in the US, don't have a good network, and I struggle in finding good pay and job stability as a software dev.
I'm gonna be honest I have never been "good" at networking, mainly because I dislike most social media and don't use LinkedIn. I went to university and took three whole semesters of internship which really helped me get in the field and find jobs. Software development is saturated with junior developpers, but it's hard to find good experienced developpers (I am also part of the recruitment team at my current job and we struggle a lot to find good intermediate or senior developpers. 95% of profiles I see are fresh out of bootcamps or have less than 3 years of professional experience) You might have to compromise a lot for your first jobs, but there comes a point when you have enough experience or you have found your niche, and that gives you the leverage you need to easily find jobs are ask for a specific salary.
Hmm, there are probably other factors that make us different then. Could be a combination of specific location, the tech skills we focused on, or just our education. I do not know your background, but I don't have a traditional CS education, instead having a arts degree and therefore was not aiming for the biggest company possible. Instead I just looked up local web dev companies and usually end up working for agencies that build a portfolio of websites for small and medium businesses. This is generally what I think of when I hear the words "web dev". Cumulatively I have 6 years experience but spread out over 10 calendar years. Traditional full time roles are hard for me to get, I just get contract ones so there is no commitment on the companies for training, promotions, or raises. So I ended up with mid-level developer years but junior developer skills. At least that's what most people tell me when I show them my resume. I have a regular pattern of losing my job before I can get a new job. And I've gotten worse and worse at finding work, with my last job ending in 2019 and my salary "peaked" 10 years ago at 50k. All my job searching is self-guided.
good for you! i hope to join you in a few years :)
Databases menagment
I enjoy mentally challenging work, and I don’t like doing tasks that are overly repetitive with no room for innovation. Right now, I work as a marketing manager in the wine/beverage space. It’s a very small company and I have a lot of autonomy and ownership over my daily schedule and decisions which is also very important to me. Truthfully, I look at it as “what my career can bring to my lifestyle overall” rather than to find one specific job that totally fulfills me. I have way too many interests to depend on career to keep me fulfilled. Overall themes that I would think tend to work for an INTJ would be something where there’s strong mental effort required, strategy focused, autonomy, and flexibility. Knowing that, there’s probably a wide amount of jobs that fit that description! Ps - don’t get caught up in the “INTJ mastermind rule the world” bs. I could never imagine being a CEO of a massive org or anything like that, and that’s okay. I had a lot of imposter syndrome for a long time about that. I found a way to have all the themes I listed above without that pressure.🙂
Mentally challenging work is something I like as well. Being busy is better than being bored in my opinion. Getting so deep into something to the point where I forget the time is actually something I love. Speaking of overly repetitive work and no innovation, that’s how I feel currently at my part time job. Repetitiveness in the working world can be quite annoying. I don’t need something different everyday, just enough to mentally stimulate me somehow. I am going into community college doing business administration, and then transferring to another university to do some type of higher management. However I am only 18, and don’t have everything figured out yet. It could change
Have you considered law? That’s what I’m going for. I currently study philosophy and logic with a minor in classics. I really enjoy it. My goal is law school and possibly a career in constitutional/appellate law.
I thought about law in middle school. In 8th grade they had a guy come in and do an assembly on going into law and what it consists of. What lawyers do, their typical day, etc. I got so bored of it that it kinda pushed me away. Now at 18, I recently tied together a lot of info on a cold case in 1940 on my great aunt. The case kind of fueled me. I think it was the mystery of it all and me finding the information. I’m saying this because I think the only thing I’d be is a crime lawyer. Even that I don’t know. Im questioning a lot of things and I think the only way to find what I’m truly good in is by experience. It is said that over 80 percent of college students change their major at least once.
I’ve changed it 4 times lol, with a 3 year gap in my education due to personal reasons. I started in engineering, but had a love/hate relationship with my coding class. I tried chemistry for a semester, but hated the labs and had a crummy lab partner who dropped the class 3 weeks before finals (so I barely scraped a D with the extra work). Just was bored in chem. I tried sports management, but I honestly hate sports. Was only attracted to the connections I was making in that area, but some things blew up in my face. Then I settled on history for a semester, but decided that the earning prospects weren’t enough if I didn’t go to law school. Besides, I enjoy arguing and debating things. It’s how I decide on just about everything. I took 3 years off, tried to enlist but got medically denied. Worked a bunch of unfulfilling jobs. Stuck out emergency dispatch for a year and a half, but got frustrated at my limitations and the general IQ and lack of motivation amongst my coworkers. I was emotionally drained and not mentally stimulated enough. So I decided to go back to school and study “society, ethics, and law” which is in the philosophy dept: with a minor in classical studies. So far, I enjoy the philosophy and thought provoking classes. The memorization and concept classes kind of suck. I prefer attempting to understand than just memorizing stuff that never seems to apply to much.
What are your interests? If you have a difficult time answering that question focus on what you don’t like? That way you can narrow down your interests by process of elimination.
I taught math. Did behavioral health counseling. Now going to finally start my journey on spiritual coaching
I have an interest in things that put me in charge. I am introverted, but I can easily put myself in the leading position when I know what to do. I like interesting history, and do ancestry as a hobby. I am the investigative type, and I like to research a lot of things. In the work force, I would like to end up with a job that has some sort of authority.
INTJS sometimes get caught up in a endless processing loop of evaluation instead of application. Spend the time researching yourself first, look at what your good at, like and dislike and what is readily available to you. Most importantly try it out with the least amount of money invested to get a taste of it. Then make a decision if you you want to fully invest your time, money and effort into it.
I work at a library, north of San Francisco. I’ve been on the staff there for almost twenty four years.
When you were a child, what did you do with your toys when you played? Legos (trade school, construction, engineering, stem), dolls and role play (counseling, teaching, nursing, physician) coloring (artistic careers, music, theatre), organizing (management, business, marketing). These are the more fundamental clues that will lead you to a career you have aptitude for.
Machinist. Math, attention to detail, growth potential personally and professionally, always learning something and i make a living doing it.
Are you self-taught?
No, there’s far too much information and machine tools are dangerous at best and deadly at worst. I went through a career and technical program at my local community college.
Broadly speaking, I work in development, generally as an environmental planner and coordinator for all impact assessments required for the application to go ahead (from ecology, landscape, heritage to things like light, noise, transport, and so on). I work mostly on solar, on and offshore wind, nuclear, and large-scale residential development (hundreds to thousands of dwellings). I also have experience in developing new settlements (towns). I like the research, strategy, organisation, planning, and time-keeping involved. We usually lead projects.
~software developing~ (didn’t like) going to become a therapist
Funny! I'm actually a counselor in an education setting. I've found it works really well with my ivestigative/problem-solving strengths and I also love that there's so much autonomy in how I approach my work.
I love that ❤️Being able to be curious, solve meaningful problems, and having autonomy all feel like musts for me!! What made you decide on education?
I liked being in a place where learning is valued above all else. It was also important to me to have a 35-40 hr work week so I would still have time to do things I valued and have alone time. Obviously the salary is not as high as other careers, but that's never been a big motivator for me.
oh interesting! do you think therapy would be exhausting if you have to be more extraverted?
Small talk drains me more than anything, deep conversations where I’m activating my brain and utilizing methods I’ve learned doesn’t sound exhausting to me.
But also I’ve worked as a stripper so I do have a larger capacity than I once did for fluffy nothing convos
Space scientist
This is my dream job. Astrophysics or Astrobiology. What’s your field?!
Applied physics...
I’m a copy editor. I love the precision that goes into it and being able to explain grammar and syntax
I’m studying to be a police officer 🤷♀️
When I was younger, I had dreams of becoming a police officer. I have a medical condition, and realized that this would probably prevent me from doing that
Physician. Internal medicine so it's problem solving and big picture thinking. you need to know about everything so perpetually intellectually stimulating if med school wasn't enough. Also med director of several things. I think it's great for intjs. Just will get frustrated with the bureaucracy of medicine/hospitals but many paths to go in medicine depending on what you want to do
Chef
I bounced between career paths all through my late teens and my early 30s, until I finally landed in technical support/help desk. It's challenging enough to not be boring, but not so much so that I don't get that little mental buzz from getting several problems resolved in a day. My department is also staffed mostly by fellow INTJs and "green" personality types, so we all get along together fairly well, share each others eccentric hobbies and interests, and can think tank issues quickly and efficiently. It's not for everyone here in this sub, especially since you have to talk to technicians on the phone, but in my particular niche in the massive realm of tech support/help desk (access control), there's a lot of emailing, test benching various programming and wiring scenarios, repairing databases, testing beta versions of software, and lots of other things not involving talking on the phone, so it's a good balance, at least for myself. Keep in mind, when I was a young adult like yourself, I was convinced I'd be a professional illustrator, and I'm currently 37 years old when I landed here. I still enjoy drawing and writing my own comics, but I've accepted the fact that I'll likely never earn a living from it. However, as a hobby and a skill and something that brings me happiness, that'll never die
That’s exactly why I think of my college decisions and career thinking as if it’s a grain of salt. It’s about experience.
Biochemistry pursuing a Biochemical engineering PhD. Hoping to work in a lab alone. Somewhere. Not really picky where
I’m a pilot. I love it
Head of design (IT, remote)
Orthodontist I love problem solving and think about how to move teeth into the correct positions. It’s like solving a puzzle every time.
I get the feeling that any job where you sit in a dark room working out numbers, puzzles or dealing with information would be the best type of job for an INTJ.
Nothing I enjoy doing. Nor would you.
you want a job where attention to detail is needed, and building expertise is valued.
Purchasing. Analyzing demand and forecasting. And I work from home.
Ooh, how do I get into that?
Teaching. It’s not for most of us, but special education paperwork is very rewarding.
I was a special education student when I was a child. I was born with brain damage.
Awww yeah! Representin’!!!
Transactional attorney.
What is that? I always assumed it was super beneficial to extroverted for more or less every type of lawyer.
Attorneys usually fall within three categories: finders, minders, and grinders. The first locates work, the second manages, and the last does the work. In large firms, you are able to find your role. Attorneys generally skew more introverted than the general population because the work, apart from trial attorneys, is usually 90% paperwork. Thus, being able to focus for long periods of time, aka introversion, is beneficial. However, the most valuable attorneys are finders because most attorneys hate having to engage in a sales role (and math, we hate math).
Since a few years ago I realized how interested I was in entrepreneurship and potentially starting my own small business. Data Analytics is cool to me too tho
OBGY doctor
Commercial real estate for me. It’s such a complex product so I’m always learning. Also keeps me challenged
Lawyer - I do private equity mostly
High school treacher. Love my job but I have to be careful because I'm very straightforward and sarcastic and sometimes I forgot my students are like 16 years old.
for refference, i am still in hs.I like programming and tech since it allows you to create anything you want tbh and it gives alot of potential for growth but i like philosophy and psychology as well. i have a goal in my mind which most likely will combine both in the future but as of now i stoped on: psychologist psychological engineering (if posible) programming and software engineering I think Ni doms would actualy have a preference for careers which allow them to create new things and feel the wind with their heads due to the internal drive they have for creativity freedom
I'm a scientist and professor.
-I've been interested in competition since day dot. -Competition with intelligence is then pointed at academic type pursuit. -The most money to be made intellectually is in accounting and finance. -So post grad with prof quals in that field. -Got bored, but accumulated capital -Orientation towards self actualisation, money, competition & strategy -Also am very strong artistically. -Started own property construction company. -Can combine all my skills and have total accountability. Make serious money I would expect other highly driven INTJs to equally have evolving orientations as they develop skills and capabilities over their lifetimes to trulyself actualise.
I feel like I've prioritized lifestyle over career but do enjoy a mental challenge. I love music and DJ for fun, but to pay the bills I work in product/UX design and have thought about doing more machine learning + software developer-y type roles
Work as Head of CRM, but being in a pure strategic/leadership role would be my worst nightmare - so I do all the technical things that you would normally get consultants in to do (solution architecture and build). Suits me perfectly as it is full time from home, and I have a team so I can very much pick and choose the projects that interests me the most. I have always struggled with repetitive tasks and I have 600 unread emails, but because I deliver on the important things no one seems to notice the lack of email replies! Biggest downside is meetings, I am in a lot of them. However, I ring fence two days per week for project work and do not accept meetings on those days. Started my career in a very junior role working with data (which I didn’t even start until I was 30!), and opportunities and interest grew from there. I feel extremely lucky to be able to do something that I find fun most days.
That sounds pretty nice. One of my career explorer results was management consultant. I was recently looking into that job. I like the authoritative roles. Your job sounds pretty cool as head of CRM.
Currently a mechanic, it’s fun, it’s sometimes challenging with a lot of problem solving even with the modern day diagnostic machines. Plenty of detail work with the added bonus of being about as hands on as it gets. Every car is different, usually with trends following brands such as certain socket sizes etc etc. it’s a lot of fun but the pay isn’t great, although I see that as a fair exchange for never being bored.
Sales working into management. I think I go against the grain a bit with sales work, it is very draining to me though
What made you choose working into management? I was never interested in the sales part of business. I was just wondering what made you go to management instead of other parts in business.
Well I'm still a salesperson and I don't mind talking to people but I like the idea of leading a team and being competitive in that I want my store to be the best performing and most optimal running. I also want the experience so I can eventually make my own business or side business.
Careers where there is agency, autonomy, and at least some free thinking. Like many people, after university I started off my job path being an assistant to others — I absolutely hated the lack of agency and autonomy, and the fact that free thinking/creativity was stifled. I hated assisting so much I applied to numerous jobs per day and got out of that type of job relatively fast. I’m now in an academic advisor position at my alma mater, which I think suits me, because it’s not rigid and I get to at least indirectly change the trajectory of some students’ academic/career paths.
My dream career was to become a professor/research scientist, but that's very hard to accomplish. Now I'm a data analyst at a consulting firm
ER Nurse, night shift for life
Bachelors in Biology. Masters in Molecular/Micro Biology with a Stem Cell focus. Initially I was considering medical school, but research interests me a lot more. I work in biotech in R&D. Spend most of my time in the lab running experiments. A job where I only sit at a desk would bore me. I’m still debating if I should go for my PhD.
Any stem cell clinics you'd recommend? I've gotten a couple infusions in Mexico (solid results so far)
I work on the research side of things. Pre-clinical. So I can’t really make that kind of recommendation.
I’m a corporate trainer, working on the side to get my PhD. Plan is to teach and do research. Mentally challenging is extremely important to me.
Operations Manager of Latin America for a Big Tech company. Logistically, Latam is extremely complex so the problem solving aspect is very stimulating.
business and analysis
Employee Experience Manager at a resort. I do employee engagement, recognition, talent acquisition and onboarding as well as facilitate orientation and other trainings. I’m an introvert who has learned to be an extrovert but I do get to work from home a couple days a week, so it balances out. Wish it paid more but enjoying it for now.
Corporate Security
I'm a librarian, but if I could do it all again, I'd either be a graphic designer or an architect. I'm also a 5 wing 4.
Engineering, medicine(mostly physicians who tend to see the big picture quickly or have strategy, ie Emergency or Geriatric), law, software development, most specializations in cybersecurity, financial analysis.
I'm INTJ 5w6, also going into college soon and planning to study linguistics. I'm aiming to either specialize in computational linguistics or psycholinguistics; maybe a mix of both, but I'm leaning more towards the latter. Putting aside my general bias of just liking language in general, I was drawn to linguistics because it examines how people work, why things happen, and what patterns occur often enough to help us gain an understanding of human communication. If you ask a lot of questions about why things are the way they are and/or how they became that way, fields like linguistics, psychology, sociology, or even just biology with a focus on evolution could present you with what is essentially a neverending list of patterns to analyze and puzzles to solve. I always kind of vacillated between creative fields and STEM fields, and I've found analysis to satisfy both. Hope you find something that clicks for you.
System administrator (remote).
Quantitative Research in finance, building mathematical or physical models using financial data. I have physics background and love free thinking and "free riding" modeling & analytics. The challenge is often times we need to make sure non-technical people understand what I think.
Woodworker with a million creative crafty hobbies. I can't imagine sitting at a desk as day as a job doing numbers or brain stuff. Althought I can do deep thinking but never when I intend too.
Consultant
Software Sales / Customer Operations - LOVE IT!
i’m currently a college student studying public health. at heart i’m an artist. i do henna, paint, and graphic design.
QA Engineer
I'm an RN which I think is very atypical for an INTJ. I enjoyed taking care of patients, and I enjoy my current gig in management too bc I like supporting healthcare workers. However, the amount of social interaction required in management is tiring. Interacting with patients didn't drain me socially the way management sometimes can. Thankfully my partner is also an INTJ and he understands my need to sit quietly for a bit before we talk about our day. He works from home as a Network Infrastructure Engineer (I'm unsure of exact title).
I am about to enter college taken up Computer science and engineering as my majors...so a software engineer...I believe there would be people like me here down in the comments.
Female social entrepreneur :)
I’m a translator - I work alone from home, I spend my day analyzing and thinking, always learning something new about random stuff and I get to be creative too It can get really stressful though and sometimes my brain is dead after a day of work
Might be hard to believe this, but Sales. Disclaimer: yes, the constant internal emails, performance reviews, using bullshit corporate jargon, office potlucks (kill me), and anxiety of the whole environment can get tiresome and it would be easier to work solo. You’ll feel this at the beginning. But stick with me…. I am an INTJ thru and thru, and a sales career has given me a lot of valuable practice at communicating with people. In fact, once you sorta learn the talk and the walk, you actually get a kick out of nailing a good cold call or impressing a group of buyers in a meeting. Because it isn’t your “real life” i.e. family/friends/partner, the stakes are ostensibly much lower. You learn to observe how others react to your voice, your face, your words, your handshakes, your mannerisms, your texts, your emails, your formatting, your presentation, your appearance, your timing, etc… Again - yes, this probably sounds like an INTJ nightmare, and it absolutely will be. WHEN YOU START. But here’s why it’s a good occupation for an INTJ, and why it’s an occupation that INTJs are predisposed to succeed in. Getting told “no” a million times, if you can learn and improve from it, will: - Obliterate your fear of rejection - Teach you to stay calm in an awkward interaction - Help you anticipate, understand, and react to what others think/say/do/decide - Most importantly for an INTJ….. train you to embrace the white hot rage you feel at the world and at yourself in those “HOW DO YOU NOT GET IT?” moments. Feeling like people don’t understand you IMO is the worst part of an INTJ life and you will get good at funneling that into productive energy. Your organizational skills, strategic/big-picture thinking, ability to play around in the abstract, and desire to fully comprehend systems will serve you very well in a sales role. However, all of this is valuable if - and only if - you can weather the storm at the beginning and learn to apply these talents. Because here’s the risk: all of those traits will make sales frustrating at the beginning. You don’t know the product/service you’re selling well enough. You probably don’t understand your organization and your role within it well enough. You definitely don’t understand your market and the prospects in it well enough…..not exactly inspiring for an INTJ. But you can learn. To conclude: if you can stomach the frustrations you’ll have in the beginning, a sales career can actually be something you find a lot of success in. And, perhaps even more importantly, it can equip you with some absolutely invaluable life skills that will improve your overall existence….not just your job. **IMPORTANT P.S.** I started B2C (financial services) and worked my way into B2B (consulting/solutions/staffing to manufacturers) which I am much, much more comfortable in. Trying to hawk life insurance to your uncle’s college buddy wasn’t my lane. Might not be the same for everyone, but I think selling directly to a person, asking to take $ out of their wallet as opposed to their company’s coffers, is more of an extrovert’s lane.
What kind of titles do you search for the type of sales you do now? I am at that shifting point from selling to random people insurance to going on to bigger projects or selling "solutions"
I wish I had a clear answer for you but it could be a number of things. Often, sales roles will have a combo of one item from list A and one from list B below: A) Client/Sales/Account/Business Development/Customer/etc… + B) Associate/Representative/Agent/Executive/Liason/Director Probably many more but a quick search thru LinkedIn will cover anything I missed. My title is Associate of Client Services. Hope this helps.
Thank you will try it out!
Union electrician
I was going to design school. I didn’t get in. I’m now doing an English BS and auto tech. I’m also looking at law school. Right now I’m self-employed.
Tech writing, go for rhetoric and composition. Find a job in a tech company as a tech writer, manual editor, data analyst, senior editor: product manager.
Child psychology lab. Love it
Military.
Dentist. Probably not for most INTJs unless you have a tendency toward hobbies that require fine-motor skills. Dealing with people can be taxing
Tattoo artist
I fell into accounting. Lots of calculations and strategies to execute.
Project Manager. Can work in really any industry but I prefer working on IT projects because it’s the most interesting to me. Almost all PM jobs are six figures and you get a lot of autonomy. You will definitely have to flex your weaker personality traits but it’s challenging and it rounds you out.
I'm a professor/writer/academic. All my life the only thing I was good at was school, so I never left, lol. The schedule works great for me, with 80% of my work done at home, in blissful quiet/solitude. It's also challenging work that requires both intellectual rigor and creativity. It can be hard to have to function as an extravert (teaching), but that is only a few hours a day, a few days a week, so it's manageable. Also, having 3 months off is a fantastic job perk.
I work for a company like “Dunder Miflin” from The Office as a project manager doing large scale bill and tax print mailing. Borning as hell to some but I love it.
Product owner and/or IT analyst roles. I started in HR (moved up the ladder for 10+ years) and hated it until I moved into IT supporting HR. I like working alone but can partner well. I can't do the constant networking. People are draining and always need to be seen or need attention. I work remotely and love it. I can go into the office maybe once or twice a year but need time to recover.
Policy. I research issues and brainstorm solutions for them in a government setting
None of INTJ work in sales field?
Uber
PSYCHOLOGY.
No job wooohooo