I've always felt that INFPs focused too much on finding the perfect job without considering that the perfect job may only last a few years or even a few months.
An INFP in the Facebook forum said, " For a while I had my dream job teaching art, but budget cuts took that away."
About a week ago on ExperienceProject , a 50+ year old woman wrote how she loved her job as a nurse at one time. But she got laid off and doesn't want to go back to nursing because she had been growing disillusioned with the entire industry for years.
I've never met an INFP who's had their dream job last. Things change. They change. And the perfect job when they began it, was no longer the perfect job a few years down the line.
INFPs have an old-school 50's mentality that way where we're focused on life-long employment instead of life-long employability.
We struggle over the perfect degree that will lead to a perfect job without realizing that the perfect job doesn't stay perfect forever. We get bored. The industry changes. We think that perfect will last, but perfect is subjective and therefore subject to change.
I've had 2 perfect jobs all of which lasted until roughly 2-4 years. I temped in my early 20's. It was awesome. No commitment. Most assignments lasted 2 weeks then I moved to my next one so I never got bored. And if I had enough money saved, I could refuse assignments, not work and coast until the money ran out. I loved the freedom. My other perfect job was a lead designer for a start up. They paid everyone stupid money to work there (which is probably why they ran out of money). It was laid back and the people were fun.
Those jobs were everything I wanted at the time. But then I changed or they changed and they weren't perfect anymore.
So what about you? There's got to be one INFP out there who's had their perfect job for at least 10 years and still loves it.
Do you have the perfect job for you? Or did you have one at one time? If you had a perfect job that turned bad, what changed?
An INFP in the Facebook forum said, " For a while I had my dream job teaching art, but budget cuts took that away."
About a week ago on ExperienceProject , a 50+ year old woman wrote how she loved her job as a nurse at one time. But she got laid off and doesn't want to go back to nursing because she had been growing disillusioned with the entire industry for years.
I've never met an INFP who's had their dream job last. Things change. They change. And the perfect job when they began it, was no longer the perfect job a few years down the line.
INFPs have an old-school 50's mentality that way where we're focused on life-long employment instead of life-long employability.
We struggle over the perfect degree that will lead to a perfect job without realizing that the perfect job doesn't stay perfect forever. We get bored. The industry changes. We think that perfect will last, but perfect is subjective and therefore subject to change.
I've had 2 perfect jobs all of which lasted until roughly 2-4 years. I temped in my early 20's. It was awesome. No commitment. Most assignments lasted 2 weeks then I moved to my next one so I never got bored. And if I had enough money saved, I could refuse assignments, not work and coast until the money ran out. I loved the freedom. My other perfect job was a lead designer for a start up. They paid everyone stupid money to work there (which is probably why they ran out of money). It was laid back and the people were fun.
Those jobs were everything I wanted at the time. But then I changed or they changed and they weren't perfect anymore.
So what about you? There's got to be one INFP out there who's had their perfect job for at least 10 years and still loves it.
Do you have the perfect job for you? Or did you have one at one time? If you had a perfect job that turned bad, what changed?