Do you know what you are? Myers-Briggs

[Daylon]

Did an online personality test - turns out I'm an ENTP on the Myers-Briggs test. I was a bit shocked when I read this about "career choices". My photography business motto is "everything but weddings" - wow, I guess there's something to this personality stuff after all! This describes me to a 'T'.... - daylon

Interesting points about me:

1) love gadgets
2) got an advertising degree
3) non-conformist
4) aforementioned aversion to shoot weddings..




Now let's contrast this profession with one that is appealing to ENTPs: photographer. What is it about this job that makes it a good match for ENTPs?

Well, many photographers are self-employed, which has inherent appeal to ENTPs. If you're the boss, you don't have to do lots of things you're forced to do as an employee, such as go to long, boring meetings. Photography is a combination of art and science. There are few rules. Many ENTPs are non-conformists who chafe at rules and structure. Sure, there are laws of physics one must adhere to for properly exposed pictures, but the photographer has tremendous freedom in composing the picture. So the creative, improvising, rule-breaking part has free reign in many kinds of photography. Many ENTPs like technology and gadgets. Photography is full of both. Photography can provide variety and excitement, depending on the field. Wedding photography is probably lower on that scale, while advertising likely has a lot more. Many ENTPs enjoy interacting a great deal with people from all walks of life. Being independent and competent is often a goal for ENTPs. Innovation is quite appealing to them. Unlike our ISFJ friends, ENTPs generally dislike details and prefer to leave them to someone else. Instead, they tend to be more action-oriented and focused on the outside world of ideas. Starting new projects energizes them, and they are quite comfortable with complexity.

[thelegend1472]

Link?

[raevyncent]

Probably an EIFP, though I haven't been officially diagnosed

Edit: found a free test, I'm ENFP

Your Type is
ENFP
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
67 50 75 44


ENFP type description by D.Keirsey
ENFP type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss
ENFP Career Choices Jung Career Indicator™




Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
distinctively expressed extravert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

distinctively expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed perceiving personality

[mjdmike]

Interesting Stuff, and an accurate description for me.

I'm an INTJ - Introverted 78%, Intuitive 12%, Thinking 78%, Judging 12%. Supposedly rare, only 1% of the population...basically meaning that I'm strange. I have to agree.

I'm like Katie Couric and Hannibal Lecter...

Famous INTJs:

Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
Susan B. Anthony
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
William J. Bennett, "drug czar"
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
Phil Donahue
Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues)
Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
Peter Jennings
Charles Everett Koop
Ivan Lendl
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Joan Lunden
Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
Martina Navratilova
Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
Lance Armstrong
Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
Katie Couric

U.S. Presidents:

Chester A. Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson

Fictional:

Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth books)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)

[deanna]

I recall doing an inservice on this at school a few years back. According to the online test I am a INTJ, sounds similar to what I recall from school.

[kenw]

we did this when it was all the rage at work back in the 90s. Turns out I (like most) can be different things depending on the circumstances. I forget what my particular results were (there were several), but most people with normal behavioral patterns will be more "borderline" rather than extremely oriented.

By training and profession, I am an Engineer and can easily slip into the highly organized (mentally at least), just-the-facts-m'am etc mode; but I can just as easily adjust when not at work to the more creative (my family is all artists), big-picture, leave the details to the subordinates attitude. I blend the extremes by favoring jobs that while technical in nature, are more creative in finding solutions, working with people and being a mediator/negotator rather than a finite detail expert.

You will find that most people are this way, to varying degrees. As a favorite boss once said not many people ride the fence as well as I....i think it was a compliment.

[Mike G]

Your Type is
ISTP
Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
33 12 50 33

Famous ISTPs:

(I have to give Joe Butt credit for most of the following)

U.S. Presidents:
Zachary Taylor

Charles Bronson
Tom Cruise
James Dean
Clint Eastwood
Burt Reynolds
Keith Richards
Charlie Yeager
Frank Zappa
Fictional:

Hedda Gabler in Ibsen's play of the same name
John Miller in the movie American Grafitti
Archibald "Harry" Tuttle in the movie Brazil

The Portrait of the Crafter Artisan (iStP)

The Crafter Artisans are not only concrete in speech and utilitarian in getting things done, they are also directive and attentive in their social roles. Though directive like their Promoter counterparts, their directiveness is leavened by a good deal of attentiveness and seclusiveness. They do not approach strangers readily, but once in contact do not hesitate to tell them what to do. And they can be quite forceful in this, such that others tend to do their bidding.

Like the other Artisans, Crafters live a life of artful action, but their particular nature is most easily seen in their mastery of tools of any and all kinds, from microscopic drill to supersonic jet, from potter's wheel to grand piano, from a camera to a clarinet. Sometimes Crafters will use their body as a tool. A tool is any implement that extends or varies our human powers -- vehicles, musical instruments, cutting devices, and weapons are just four of the many categories of the tools that surround us. Most of us use tools in some capacity, of course, but Crafters (only ten per cent of the general population) are the true virtuosos of tool work, with a natural ability to command tools, to bend them to their wishes, and to become adept at all the crafts requiring tool skills. Even from an early age Crafters are drawn to tools as to a magnet; tools fall into their hands demanding use, and they must manipulate them. Indeed, if a given tool, whether scalpel or earthmover, is operated with a precision that defies belief, that operator is likely an Crafter.

[Big Dog]

How do fictional characters or long dead people take the test? (Hannibal/Hannibal Lector)

[Daylon]

Famous ENTP's - (I'm in good company!)

Alexander the Great
Marilyn Vos Savant
Thomas Edison
George Carlin
Q (from Star Trek)
Wyle E. Coyote

heheh..

[Tapper]

ENTP - the Field Martial Rational.

I have to admit, there was some truth in the description. Your membership cards are in the mail.

[darktiger]

I am a ESTJ, wow a few presidents. I just want to be a Senator...

Famous ESTJs
Real ESTJ People

* Andrew Jackson - American President
* Bette Davis - actress
* Carrie Nation - advocate
* Elliot Ness - prohibition agent
* George W. Bush - American President
* Grover Cleveland - American President
* James Monroe - American President
* John D. Rockefeller - industrialist, philanthropist
* Lyndon B. Johnson - American President
* Pat Summit - basketball coach
* Rev. Billy Graham - evangelist, writer
* Robert A. Taft - Governor of Ohio
* Sam Walton - founder of Wal-Mart
* William Henry Harrison - American President


Fictional ESTJs (Characters)
* Lucy van Pelt - Peanuts (Charlie Brown)
* Mrs. Harbottle - All Creatures Great and Small
* Mrs. Rachel Lynde - Anne of Green Gables
* Princess Leia Organa - Star Wars
* The Mayor - The Music Man
* Tony Soprano - The Sopranos

[OversighT]

Another ESTJ here. Guess my current primary career is a good fit for my personality: senior manager of a 10 person web development team.


T.

[stargal01]

another ESTJ here, too.

[Dobick]

ENTP -- 11, 75, 12, 56

and I think if there were another 100 questions or so, the extroverted would have dropped down to 0. I don't think of myself as extroverted at all.

[ttusa]

I'm an INFJ- okay I've said enough...