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Seraffa

Seraffa

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I have not had the typical career life of other people. Mine has been interrupted, it seems, thousands and thousands of times. It is the one "flower pot of life" I have not broken the terra-cotta of, as of yet. But it does make one ponder that, an older an INFJ is, the better off they are creating a private consulting business of some sort. Does this ring true for you?
 
Do I count as older? :) That's something I've been considering, Seraffa. I'm not generally happy working for other people and like to have control over my work and work environment. To be honest, I'm not sure what direction I'll go, but I'm at a point in my life where I could definitely benefit from taking a new path, and what you're suggesting is probably something that would suit me well, career wise.
 
Seraffa said:
I have not had the typical career life of other people. Mine has been interrupted, it seems, thousands and thousands of times. It is the one "flower pot of life" I have not broken the terra-cotta of, as of yet. But it does make one ponder that, an older an INFJ is, the better off they are creating a private consulting business of some sort. Does this ring true for you?
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I would guess you have been already consulting for free....
 
consulting in what field? If it's how to be socialble and the life of the party - then no.
 
zak said:
Do I count as older? . . . I'm not sure what direction I'll go, but I'm at a point in my life where I could definitely benefit from taking a new path, and what you're suggesting is probably something that would suit me well, career wise.
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I can see my self being very happy this way.
I'm still a little baby undergrad though
 
I don't think I count as older, but I recently thought about that area, and the more I consider it the more convinced I am.
 
Yes; i'm not saying this "yes" just to keep my thread visible; I am agreeing with everybody. I think the more I go over the INFJ strengths and weaknesses lists, the more I see how the world can collide with us, and run over us as if on train tracks if we don't choose a sensible way to go as far as how we present ourselves professionally in the world. I don't know about other INFJ's (it might be just my own birth chart), but as for myself the leadership skills I have are not readily recogniseable to most extroverts and to some, I am a threat because my leadership is not "their style" anyway and "would not fit in with their (organization, business, etc.)" and this is exactly why I haven't been able to put together a decent career now that half of my life is already over.

I do sound gloomy, now, because half of what people could list on resumes as far as skills that employers should take note of cannot be posted anyway, in this day and age of political correctness. "don't list this that or the other if it is related to race, religion, sex, creed, etc......" Makes me extremely angry now.
 
Neuropedia said:
I can see my self being very happy this way.
I'm still a little baby undergrad though
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consultants are just experts in whatever field they present :)
 
GaiaGraha said:
I don't think I count as older, but I recently thought about that area, and the more I consider it the more convinced I am.
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The internet said somewhere that the only people that would be getting ahead big time in this economy would be private consultants. I bet we could run rings around all the other MB types why try to style themselves as consultants and fall all over themselves failing at it :first: ..."for all the times we had to cram ourselves into their way of doing things..." :high5:
 
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