'I'm only a mystery to myself|||Hugs from my daughter: can't get enough Hugs from my wife: loving and welcome if not in public (too suffocating; need to take in my surroundings) Hugs from random friends of friends: step back...|||Learn to day trade. Or deliver yachts for a living.|||Skiing Sailing Working out Photography Taking potshots at the natives from my balcony|||Sounds less ISTP and more JERK. Sorry I can't be more insightful, but I don't know of many IxTPs who bother playing games|||Married to an ENFJ.|||I haven't shot anyone with a sniper rifle. Ever.|||Benja — Seeing as you have saved 80% of your wages, and are looking for assets: Have you seen http://www.earlyretirementextreme.com?|||Was brought up in a household of feelers, and needed a better understanding of irrational behaviours. I found MBTI and pretty much everything fell into place.|||Benja — I don't have many complaints, for sure. But I have never been able to shake the Mal de Mer.|||Yacht skipper and trainee wooden boat builder/restorer. I prefer sailing boats to fixing them, but I get some sort of family life if I'm not at sea all the time. Finally, I am learning balance|||I was just thinking Jeremy Kyle I actually want to reach into the TV and rip that guys throat out|||Boats, kayaks, pool cues, cameras, bikes, the shipwright's tools and computers feature heavily, but properly manipulating the bodies endocrinological response to nutrition for the purposes of...|||Very similarly. I go to the gym 3 times a week, sail in the summer, ski in the winter, and hike all year round. It is pretty much the only thing that breaks the Ti-Ni cycle. As a kid I didn't know...|||Fair enough. You do seem quite extraverted on the WebblyNets; not that that means jot in real life.|||You sure you're not ESTP DJA!|||What's it now then?|||To get thin you have to eat fat|||Now there's a man I could shoot pool with.|||I got into it not so long ago (a couple of years maybe) while working out a career change. Then it lead me to understand why my family were all f***ing nuts (I was brought up in a household of Fs),...|||I put Dali because I really like most of his work, but I love Picasso's cubism and his early sketches (especially the buxom wenches he used to sketch on his schoolboy math books). He was a master...|||Wow x97 we're two totally different ISTPs: apparently I'm an irresponsible jerk who won't take life seriously at all. I pretty much focus all my life's energies on being able to ski, sail, hike, camp,...|||Pretty much the same here.|||chemistry undergrad music technology postgrad  doing neither now|||I have owned and run 2 small businesses and enjoyed it very much. One business employed other people on occasion and that is where it sucked horribly. Running a business is one thing, running people...|||Turn into an ISTJ for the day (unless the interview is to be a firefighter or something): prepare, dress appropriately, play the game|||I get on really well with the few ENTPs I know. In short bursts. The energy they have isn't a physical one, so I get exhausted by the continual going off on tangents. I can humour them for a while...|||People never can — we're both a couple of old mutts|||http://personalitycafe.com/members/abuwabu-albums-boats-skis-istps-picture4108-my-partner-crime.jpg  I'm not the yellow one|||To be the best human being I can possibly be|||Amen. (plus a few more characters)|||One more for the old boys... 37 (for a few more days anyway)|||I am constantly doing stuff on the boat with 2 feet of old rope that someone else feels the need to pay big bucks for in some chandlery. So many things, in fact, that I thought of changing my boat...|||Good God: I think Khys may just be me in female form|||Hahah. Emotions to me are just so raw. I have feelings, they are just too intense to handle, so they get beaten into the ground, a layer of concrete poured on top, and the walls go up. But it's  a...|||That way well have been yet another example of me needing to be told straight, rather than implying it from what you said. Ho Hum x97 so it goes...|||Hey Pinkrasputin,  It was just a knee-jerk reaction to some flash talk that irritated me for some unknown reason. I usually walk away rather than respond, but what is done is done.|||Seamaid,  Upkeep of a boat all depends on the state of it to begin with, your skills (whether you need to hire outside help), and the size (above 12m and the costs of parts becomes all out of...|||My hands: all other tools are just an extension|||Actually, on the surface, it makes no sense that an ENFJ-ISTP relationship should be conflicting:  ENFJ = Fe Ni Se Ti ISTP = Ti Se Ni Fe  Ok, they're back to front but it's not like I have to...|||^^^^ indeed|||Thanks Chinotto; but my point was about 'conflicting' relationships and dealing with them rather than to brag about a cool life. For the record, my life, like everybody else's, comes with a heap of...|||I am definitely *used* to her behaviour; just got no clue what the hell she is talking about sometimes.  Conflicting relationships sound like agro. There is none here x97*we just communicate...|||I think your approach is spot on Letsride: I wouldn't want gushing, or too many 'how are you?s' The answer isn't going to change too quickly. But people helping out (especially with filtering the...|||No you don't Problem is x97 you try to sell me anything (especially yourself) I'm goooooone|||Pretty much what Khys said...  I am also married to an ENFJ. She is loyal and knows what I need better than I do. But communication is hard: having to double-guess what the bloody hell she is...|||Hahahah x97 that's *exactly* what I was thinking.|||Me neither|||Indeed. Despite having all my passwords, I will not allow my wife to read over my shoulder x97 that is way too intrusive.|||I am the same way too x97 I am not going to chase you or snoop on you; manage your own life, and be loyal to the relationship; if you do wrong you better be able to hide it or you are on your own with...'