INFJ favoured careers

So I read this on Simone’s blog and had a go, out of the fascination with myself. I don’t think the person who put this site together likes INFJs. I read the general description and was so disgusted with it I decided most of it doesn’t apply to me. :) But in all honesty, I don’t think I am anxious, cautious (I have even been called “reckless” in the past, but perhaps there are limits to my sphere of recklessness) easily frightened (except I absolutely don’t do horror films), easily offended or low on energy (I want to take this person on a wildlife trapping trip!) and no one has ever let me know if I am “moody” – I hate “moody” (have they just gone F = moody/sensitive? – that to me is emotional immaturity, not a "type"). And I am not so sure I am prone to crying – except maybe about those sad things I am attracted to, which is kind of true. This sounds like a fear-ridden nerve case to me. Other websites/books are much kinder to us poor misunderstood INFJs. (I mean seriously, I get about two positive things and fifty negative things at this one (all of the introverts get beaten up it seems) - I'm sticking with the page that says Jesus was an INFJ.) I don’t know what “sabotages self” means exactly, but maybe that’s been my problem my whole life.

But what I do like is my favoured careers. I think I got misled originally on the “environmentalist”* option. I loved nature/wildlife and thought I was going to save the world's endangered species from the edge of extinction. And I loved working for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, but then as I went on and got a job as “Environmental Planning Project Officer” in the strategic planning department at a local council, I couldn’t stand it. And I have wondered how I came to wind around to where I am now, but I think I am heading in the right direction (except I currently work on legal products, which are slowly killing me):

psychotherapist, artist, art curator, bookstore owner, freelance writer, poet, teacher (art, drama, english), library assistant, professor of english, painter, novelist, book editor, copywriter, philosopher, environmentalist, bookseller, museum curator, opera singer, magazine editor, archivist, music therapist, screenwriter, film director, creative director, librarian, social services worker, art historian, sign language interpreter, photo journalist, makeup artist, photo journalist, homemaker

Curiously this other nicer site (which also says we are "often seen as the most poetical of all the types" - obviously that's just my thing) says of INFJs: "Sometimes they feel a strong calling toward the religious life as clergy, nun, or director of religious education."

* I used to call myself a conservationist, not a preservationist. And I think there's a good biblical case for not pushing whole species off the face of the planet, which has happened at an enormous rate particularly in the last 200 years in Australia. I once wrote an article on "God, Us and the Pig-footed Bandicoot", which perhaps I shall dig up.