[Terry]

I am an intp who is trying to figure out a direction in which to go career-wise.
I am math impaired which excludes me from many good intp careers. I graduated from art school four years ago and like working with my hands as well as executing my own ideas. I would like to study the history of the decorative arts but I think I need to give more consideration to making a living.
I am also worried about the idea of going into education. I love academia but I am actually idealistic about it and have watched too many idealistic educators in my family get frustrated. Also I may be too introverted.

 

[tangosthenes]

I am an intp who is trying to figure out a direction in which to go career-wise.
I am math impaired which excludes me from many good intp careers. I graduated from art school four years ago and like working with my hands as well as executing my own ideas. I would like to study the history of the decorative arts but I think I need to give more consideration to making a living.
I am also worried about the idea of going into education. I love academia but I am actually idealistic about it and have watched too many idealistic educators in my family get frustrated. Also I may be too introverted.

Graphic design? Digital illustration?

 

[Terry]

I know this isn't usually the case for intps but I have no special talent with computers.

 

[NT the DC]

I know this isn't usually the case for intps but I have no special talent with computers.

What do you like learning about?
What do you like to do for fun?

I hate math and aside from entertainment purposes I'm not too into computers either.

 

[Juan M]

In an art is veeeery important that you study what you reaallly really want.

Yeah its passion, if you have a passion and you see walls on your way, destroy them (too introverted gibbity gibbily, making a living, frustation, etc) if you have not passion, better go goobely doo and hurt people around until you find it.

 

[Terry]

I like learning about many things but especially crafts. I learn a craft, get to a point of competency, and get distracted by another craft. I want to know as many as possible especially of those involving string, as if, when I know them all there will be an overriding truth which unites them. I enjoy the process of learning a process, learning how a material behaves, and getting my hands accustomed to the action.
For fun I read classic fiction as well as non-fiction, often about natural science. I garden (in summer), cook and bake, watch movies, I love mold making and slip casting but lack the facilities, and the rest of what I do would be classified as art or fiber craft.

 

[Terry]

Perhaps it's because I am intp but I have always hated the word "passion" and the expectation that artists are full of it. I don't have passion about my art. I follow my fascination.

 

[Juan M]

Perhaps it's because I am intp but I have always hated the word "passion" and the expectation that artists are full of it. I don't have passion about my art. I follow my fascination.

Well, perhaps, i dont know a precise traduction for that word, but yeah its likeee "im not studying filmmaking for nothing more than the passion to send a message with a strong meaning in every channel off possible comunnication", its the motivation outside the "art-itself" but that can only reached throught that art, if you craft for the sake of crafting, youre a crafter.

 

[hela]

What did you major in when you went to art school the first time around?

Also academia and education are not always the same thing.

 

[tangosthenes]

Well if you're a crafter who likes to experiment, you should start your own business.
You probably wont make much money unless you're business-savvy but you should be able to survive and do what you love. Seems great to me.

 

[Terry]

I majored in ceramic sculpture.

 

[NT the DC]

I like learning about many things but especially crafts. I learn a craft, get to a point of competency, and get distracted by another craft. I want to know as many as possible especially of those involving string, as if, when I know them all there will be an overriding truth which unites them. I enjoy the process of learning a process, learning how a material behaves, and getting my hands accustomed to the action.
For fun I read classic fiction as well as non-fiction, often about natural science. I garden (in summer), cook and bake, watch movies, I love mold making and slip casting but lack the facilities, and the rest of what I do would be classified as art or fiber craft.

Hmm I think that learning about tons of different crafts seems like a entertaining career but I don't know how to make money out of it unfortunately lol.

 

[Tsaiireii]

Hmm I think that learning about tons of different crafts seems like a entertaining career but I don't know how to make money out of it unfortunately lol.

Product testing, I guess ?

 

[Dupree]

You could become a plaster caster and sell your work on ebay.