I'm an ENFJ... but I'm an ACCOUNTING Major?

AND I QUOTE:

"This longing for the perfect carries over into the careers of ENFJ's, who experience some degree of restlessness whatever their jobs. And, as with ENFP's, ENFJ's have a wide range of occupations which offer success. Being verbally adept, ENFJ's contribute to an unusual level dealing with people, particularly face to face; the media, the ministry, and stage and screen are populated successful ENFJ's. They make superior therapists, charismatic teachers, excellent executives, personalized salespersons. Areas that would not permit utilization of the intereactional talents of the ENFJ's, for example, accounting, should be avoided, otherwise, almost any people to people occupation where personal, sustained contact is involved capitalizes on the personality of the ENFJ."

I'm currently an accounting major and I love my major but I've been having a weird 'gut' feeling about it. Accountants are typically very technical, to themselves and not really into interacting with people. Of course, in this day and age things are changing and accountants need great managing skills to succeed way beyond the norm. I've met lots of accountants, auditors, tax accountants who are not like your typical 'stay in the background and crunch numbers types'.

Even though the field is changing, I still feel like I'm missing something in my major. I absolutely love people. I want to help people and make a difference in this world. The thought of being stuck behind a cubicle preparing tax statements for a corporation or in a room with an audit team checking through invoices made me go nuts!! I've been searching through these personality tests and careers to see how can I still follow my dream of using my talents in accounting to help people and finally concluded that I should look into becoming a Financial Advisor or Director of some sort of Financial Literacy Program. I want to help people plan and figure out how they can save money, manage their finances and maybe even do their taxes here and there. I wouldn't mind being a CPA where I can work on statements and taxes but I also want to advise. I even found some jobs with the Department of Treasury that were centered around spreading financial literacy and I was like - ding ding ding!! Score!! My accounting college focuses more on preparing students to work for large accounting firms so I had to dig deep for this kind of information.

If there is another ENFJ out there who's interested in a field that doesn't typically fit with their personality type - continue to do research. There is a career path out there for you. You can mix-and-match your talents with your career goals and make it work for you. It might involve you completely changing your major or it might involve you taking a path that's different from your colleagues (like me!). Most of my friends are going into Public Accounting - which is great... but not really what I want to do.

Another note - I am heavily involved in my church. I LOVE ministry. I LOVE performing and acting and music. I am a singer, guitarist, clarinet player and actress. You can imagine how aggravated I was when I had to slow down on my involvement in my choir when my accounting classes became to difficult to handle lol. I also love leading people. Most accountants prefer being behind the scenes. People like me who become accountants move on past their staff accountant levels to pick up roles as Controllers of companies etc etc. I don't mind working in the corporate world too much, but I would prefer to use my talents with a ministry or non-profit organization. It could even be a for-profit company as long as they have a mission of some sort to help individuals. Heck, I wouldn't even mind starting up my own thing! I have an entrepreneurial spirit too.

It's a long post... but I hope it's of use to someone out there... just wanted to share! roud: