'Thanks for the responses.   I like your idea Belle, and you did call me out a bit, which I appreciate;-). You are correct in that running around saying I hate my job certainly does not help the...|||So here it is, I am 44 years old and I still don't know what the heck I want to do with my life, or the rest of it at this point;-)  So I will just put it out there -  have any of you found ways of...|||Well obviously we can be friends with anyone, as one poster said, and many intimate relationships start out as friendships. But, to the question, yes you can be friends with a a member of the...|||This has always been an issue for me, I am 44, so I think it is probably pretty common.  Obviously everyone is different but procrastination I believe is mostly about fear of not doing something...|||Depends on what you are looking for but I like most things written by Larry McMurtry, my all time favorite book is Lonesome Dove.  If you like horror, The Stand, by Stephen King, is excellent.|||Lots of Queens of the Stone Age. I discovered them about a year ago after I started taking guitar lessons...|||Well the kind of conflict I try to avoid, and hate, is conflict in intimate relationships whether that be with a friend or a partner. I have no problem with conflict when it comes to non-personal...|||Honestly, I don't really agree with the blanket statement that INFPs should not go to college. First, let's just keep it real, while there are certain professions that don't require a college degree...|||I am now married, and I have been in many relationships over the years and it seems that no matter how right a relationship may have seem that I was always kind of looking. I don't know if this was...|||Sarcasm seems to be a thing with us INFPs. I have done it for so long and I forget that I have to be careful around people who don't know me very well because they will think I am being serious.|||I have one really good friend with whom I can literally go back and forth having a conversation about the most inappropriate thing in a completely dead pan serious way. We have freaked people out so...|||Just like you. What I find strange is how my extroverted friends seem to find me so amusing. Sometimes I just get on a roll....|||I think it's awesome you get into characters at work. I am in sales and I literally have to act my way through my job every day just to survive.    I actually don't have much stage fright, I do...|||I have always had a dry sense of humor, actually very sarcastic, and surprisingly, people often consider me pretty funny. I have been told by a couple of people that I should do stand-up but I think...|||Well I don't really get the winter blues anymore because I live in Southern California, which is actually sunny most of the time. And when I was growing up in the Midwest I did not really get...|||I have heard this my whole life and one of the things my friends value about me is that I listen.   What I have always found, however, is that until people take the time to get to know they...|||For me, I always did poor at math in high school, and most of college, partly becuase I just found it boring and really did not feel it was necessary for what I was trying to do at the time.  I think...|||Interesting question and I am not sure I can put myself in a bubble.  In general I have always been more of an urban person, I wanted to live in NYC years ago but ended up living in LA. I tend to...|||Well I think any type can work for a relationship, my wife is an INFJ, but if I were single again I would probably be looking for an ENFJ woman.  I have never had a romantic relationship with an...|||I agree 100% with sammyboy265 and I truly laughed out loud because this, in my opinion is the biggest issues that most INFPs face.   The reality is that there all types of areas we excel in but...|||I am not sure about all of the specifics about personality type but I do know I did not discover I was an INFP until reading Do What You Are, like you, when I was in my late twenties many years ago....|||You know, at first I really liked Skype and Facetime, but now I try to avoid using them not because I have some aversion to seeing people but because they just seem to take a lot of work and there...|||I was raised in a non-religious household although my mom was brought up Methodist and my dad was a Southern Baptist.   When I was about 12, because I had been convinced by some kid at camp that...|||I would agree with this and I would say that every job, no matter how much you love it, is going to have a painful tedious part. I like to act but I spent two twelve hour days recently on the set of...|||Hey Usherer.  Studying law was a decision I made right out of college when I had no idea I was an INFP and I had some vague goal of being a crusader for justice:happy:. I did okay in law school but...|||I am sure I am an INFP. I have tested ENFP a couple of times but for the most part INFP seems to have been consistent.   Occassionally I can be extremely extroverted and many people consider me...|||Theatre psychotherapy sounds interesting usherer and your goals sound really admirable. I think that as INFPs we really excel at jobs involving counseling and helping people to become their best. I...|||Well, I completely understand where you are coming from and I will give my two cents, which you can take with a grain of salt. I have spent years working in Corporate America and in sales, which I...|||I have kept a journal off and on since was around 12 years old, I am 42 now. I used to just journal on more of a random basis until about ten years ago when I read this book called The Artist Way,...|||For me, as an INFP, I  find ENJs most attractive, which is evidently the ideal partner type for an INFP. ENFJ woman just bring me to my knees;-)|||Lately I have been listening to this great jazz musician Robert Glasper and, strangely enough, Queen.  When I was kid my mom bought me the Queen album with Another One Bites the Dust but I was...|||I am going to leave this alone because I think everything is probably cool and I guess it really does not matter. One of the things I tend to forget, as the first poster mentioned, is that Facebook...|||Yeah, I probably should just let it go and not bring it up. She never really struck me as a big FB person and I know she has kind of an interesting past. Perhaps she needed to get off for other...|||Okay, here is my random situation/question. I recently friended someone I am in a creative writing class with because we are working on a project together and I  think she is pretty cool. After she...|||Thanks for thought and I would like to quit but it is a tough situation. One of the factors I did not mention is that I relocated my family for the job and although we like where would live, and...|||About three years ago I returned to a company I had previously worked for for over ten years but I came back in a sales role, after having spent years doing Account Management.  I have always known...|||I just came up with a 9 when I did the test, it looks like 4 is the most common. I think I may take the test again because I wonder if my answers may be related more to my current state of mind and...|||Interesting responses....Thanks! Maybe I am not 100% INFP or I am more idealistic than most:happy:|||Okay, so every four years, when the big election comes around, I start hearing the ghost of my youth, and my conscience, telling me that I should do something and get involved.  Now although I...|||Well, when I was a teenager, way back in the '80s, I had no idea what my personality type was so clearly you are ahead of the game;-) With that said, however, I have to say that my teenage years...|||I am 41 and this is my perspective. I am still going through the feelings you mention and I am about to be in a career head on crash, as DWK, mentioned in his post.  I think my problem as an...|||First let me just say that this is a great post!  I wouldn't say that we aren't built for work I just think that we have a hard time tolerating any job that we don't  feel serves a purpose and...|||Thank you for this awesome reply. I work in direct sales, which I hate, but the one thing  I can honestly say is that to be successful long term you do need to provide value to customers.  The...|||Outside of winning the lottery, being born into wealth, or having a rich relative die, I am wondering if an INFP can ever become financially well off by their own hand.   It just seems to me that...|||All these replies have been extremely helpful and give me some things to think about.   I will share a couple of things about myself. First, I currently work in  the completely anti-INFP world of...|||Thanks for the response and it sounds like many of the aspects you find rewarding are what would appeal to me as well. I never thought about being an ESL teacher but that sounds like another avenue I...|||Okay, well my quest to find a career that truly fit's me continues. It occurred to me lately , after being told by my mother for the past fifteen years that I should be a teacher, that she might...|||I live in a beach community about an hour north of LA and I like the following things:  1. The weather is awesome, it's always in the 60s and 70s. 2. It's easy  to get everywhere. 3. Cost of...|||I have to agree with others that believe being an INFP is a great thing. The issues I have had  have come more from me fighting my  type and pursuing careers, and relationships, which are just...|||Thanks for posting this link! I think since we generally only hear about people after they are successful we forget how many times they have failed and how much failure it takes to achieve success.'