taratemima | Notes for a job search (Reply)

Good fucking God.

The Keirsey temperment site is on the "ADD iz a hoax, Ritalin iz eval!!!!11" kick.

Some people with ADD do not do well with Ritalin. That doesn't mean it is just a Feeling/Perceptive axis or some SP traits gone fucking awry. Gah! Why are people so void of critical thinking?

Do they realize that there are adults who had to deal with being thought as bad? Have they talked to people who actually were able to pay attention and get the important parts of their projects done? Do they seem like drones to you?

OMG DRUGS R BAD!1!!1 Let's never take aspirin or anethestic or anything ever again. Brain shut down now. Balance, everyone. If the problem can be solved by non-drug means, great. If not, research, take note of effects, etc.

Things that are especially true for me are bolded.

Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.
Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in (could I really?). The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.
Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Healers are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public.

INFP
information-graphics
...designer
college professor
researcher
legal mediator
social worker
holistic health
...practitioner
occupational therapist
diversity manager
human resource
...development specialist
employment development
...specialist
minister/priest/rabbi
missionary
psychologist
writer: poet/novelist
journalist
editor/art director
organizational development
...specialist

I decided to take some INTP, because I have been fascinated in some way by these careers. Also, for some time, I was an XNXP. However, ENFP careers don't seem to interest me.

strategic planning
staff development
lawyer
writer
architect
software designer
financial analyst
college professor
photographer
logician
artist
systems analyst
neurologist
physicist
psychologist
research/development specialist
computer programmer
data base manager
chemist
biologist
investigator

Adaptive traits:

sincere
learns quickly
intelligent
imaginative
modest
trustworthy
creative
gentle
sense of humor
presistent
independent
good-natured
discreet