INTP Careers - 4 Work Styles Of The Personality Type | Ep 490 | PersonalityHacker.com 

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This hits home, as a Creative INTP I find myself asking everyday what I want to do when I grow up.

Creative INTP: Chronic job hopper, always scheming ways to monetize hobbies. On the path to financial freedom while not compromising on my values/flexible lifestyle. Currently: math tutor / content creator / landlord

It was very hard growing up INTP hearing the phrase " you can be anything you put your mind to" early on I heard I can be EVERYTHING!!! After 30 years of drifting jobs, divorce, and continual frustration to be "EVERYTHING", I had to conclude that I had to narrow my scope and focus to something specific area I have a great interest in and dive in 100%.

100% INTP. I think I'm predominantly a Harmonizing subtype, but looking at my history I cycle through all the subtypes. In highschool, my interests were split between math, computer, and fine arts. I studied Computer Science in university, and developed a career in IT Support. Meanwhile, I trained in karate, earned my 4th degree black belt, and started my own dojo. I was successful as an instructor, but not as a business owner. I later got back to IT support and added consulting to my portfolio. Lately, I've been playing with resin casting as a hobby. I've told a few people in different conversations that I'm a great #2, but not a good #1. Well meaning people say I'm downplaying myself when I say that, but they don't get where I'm coming from. So it was very validating when you talked about INTP being ok with leading, but not wanting that role. Great podcast! Thank you!

ENTP here, just wanted to pop in and say ✨️I luv me sum INTP's✨️

I used to be a creative/dominant seeking INTP pilot for 10 years. But life circumstances pushed me into being a harmonizing/normalizing INTP working a behind the scenes job for an airline.

I'm a Creative INTP - and in fact have been an investigative Jounalist, and an Archeologist with my PhD in Archaeology and have worked in several of the other roles on your list for this subtype. I have turned my hobbies into my careers just as described - I'm a professional writer and writing was my hobby, so was archaeology and my specific interest is becoming my new career. Yeah, good stuff guys - this is pretty dead on.

I've been waiting for this one! I am a normalizing INTP, and unsurprisingly, I am a supply chain planning analyst. I didn't always love my job- those years of building expertise were hellish- but now I have enough expertise to make connections and fix broken systems and I love it. The positive feedback loop of making life better for people by making organizations run more efficiently is awesome.

INTP here, tattoo artist traveling the world ❤

I think I'm a harmonizing INTP. I first typed as an INFP in high school. My jobs have always been around people, sometimes to my chagrin. Currently looking for my next job after being furloughed.

Ok, this was fascinating! I am INTP and I identified a little bit with the creative type, but I float between all the different types based in the needs at the moment. I have been very disappointed, though, because you didn't mention Paramedic. I have been a paramedic for more than 2 decades, and use data, and matrices, and, often techniques you described in harmonizing. What most people miss is that you *can't* be empathetic, as a paramedic, you must be compassionate, but have to be separate and analytical when chaos is happening.

Where waa this when i was 17??????? Im now 52 and no better off than when i had my part time job at 17.

Although engineer seems like the right pick for an INTP, for a creative INTP it is very difficult, because technical spaces are filled with norms and standards & people who like that. Luckily I've found a place that was more of a playing field for inventors & I think it is very likely most of my collegues had the same wiring. Unfortunately I had to move, still not sure what to do for work exactly. I rather do some creative machining/wood working/psychology/gardening than engineering within norms and standards. Maybe the best short description of what drives me is ''someone who finds joy in finding the most creative and best solutions for unsolveable problems.''

This video is so enlightening. I feel like one of my struggles has been that I and the people around me have been trying to push me into the normalizing box my whole life when I fit the creative box better

Great Presentation! How fun, it fits moi. A 25 year career as a crisis MH consultant and evaluator. Have used and experienced all four work styles at various times in my career. Retired and blogging about helping folks learn how to change. Now primarily working in the "harmony" style.

So: I am an INTP, and had a quite harsh time to stabilize with this small thign called "job". Nowadays, I have created a new approach to my whole market enviroment, bringing intelligence and analysis to the field and helping companies to function better...

Mmmmmm....I'm just DRINKING this video and it feels like it's cold, fresh water in a desert. 🙌🙌Thank you so much for these insights!

I am a dominant INTP and I am fascinated by this. I spent a lot of time doubting my “intpeeness” because I tend to be more dominant and argumentative when I am certain about a topic. I didn’t match much the stereotype. I can take leadership whenever I notice it’s needed (because I can’t stand lack of coordination) even though I prefer not to. I recently graduated with a degree in stats with emphasis in decision sciences, and I have been dreaming with a career as an “advisor”. Have been applying for positions on policy analysis data science etc. it’s so cool to see how accurate this is and get some validation that I am on the right path utilizing my strengths. Thank you!!!

You guys clearly showed me overall I am harmonizing. Wow I have been trying to figure this out off and on for 5 years. Which explains why as a pilot I had my most success as a flight instructor. More one to one people based. I may be a flight instructor again here in Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦.

INTP. Collision repair shop owner.

Great Video! I am an INTP, and I think just by listening to your description I am a mishmash of creative/ Harmonizing types. I have an associates in electronics. Trade type school is all I could muster because back then I knew I would be arguing with college professors all the time. I just wouldn't be able to write papers based on the lies that are sold in out education system. So after a brief stint in the Air Force and several minor jobs I ended up hiring on with AT&T. It was good pay. Not very inspiring but the money made good for my hobbies (computer programming and music). I worked for them for Twenty Three years. In the last seven years disaster struck on a personal level. In fact I will compress that to the last three years of that Twenty Three. My wife of Twenty Eight years died of cancer. A year later to within three weeks my Dad died of slip and fall. This all began by the way in February of 2020, that period when the world went surreal. A couple weeks after my Dad died my favorite aunt took the vax and was dead four days later. So then comes my company saying everyone has to take the vax or not stay there. I think I was at my wits end at that point. I think I had an underlying rage at the world. Everything in my life had turned into some kind of surreal nightmare. So I left AT&T along with leaving a half a million dollar pension on the table (because I needed two more years for that). So at (now) Fifty four I am starting all over and seeking something I can enjoy and make money at. I moved to the middle of nowhere in West Texas to get away from the city. And there are no jobs out here that pay anything much. It maybe wasn't a smart move on my part but I thought I could find or make something online. I just didn't realize how much I was messed up from losing my wife. Only this month (July 7th) I had some sort of breakthrough. I the space of 24 hours it was as if the weight of the world was lifted from my shoulders. It was incredible. I knew the weight was there but I couldn't find a way to process it. And then after all that time in the middle of the night I wake up and start sobbing. I just couldn't stop. for thirty minutes this went on. But it wasn't sadness. It was relief and gratitude. I could feel it was gone and I was/am so thankful. I still have the sadness when I think about the losses but it no longer encompasses my world. I wonder what the world would be like if everyone could have their burdens relieved like this. So I am very upbeat now (although a bit nervous with no income), and looking for what is next. Interestingly enough I have always been great at talking to people one on one. And it surprises me because they seem to be able to tell me very personal things without me knowing them hardly any time at all. That has happened so many times in my life I can't remember them all. So your video makes me think I should go after something in that vein. But I suppose that would be more college that I don't have. And money that I don't have now. Anyway you said to tell our stories. There is mine. If you need a INTP for anything that can be done online, I am available. Cheers.

You just nailed it when you said that we want to align ourselves with an organization that matches our values and allows us to use our minds for good but let someone else handle the details of execution!

This explains why ive been fired and or traumatised by people and the workplace for 3 decades. Have no faith in humanity.

I have mistyped myself as INFJ. Now I think I am a harmonizing INTP. I do look for the need to fill in a room, which no one yet knows is required. It's like solving a puzzle for me. It requires a certain comfort to be yourself though. And I am studying to be a life coach , having had a 20yr plus career in accounting and finance analyst/partner. I also love the people aspect in the partnership roles.

haha! creative INTP's like to poke the bear... spot on...

According to Gulenko here is the cognitive focus of each subtype: Dominant: Te, Fe, & some Se Creative: Ne, Se, & some Fe Normalizing: Ti, Fi, & some Si Harmonizing: Si, Ni & some Fi

so accurate, like someone peering through my soul

You two are the best teachers. Thanks for this.

Spot on. I'm a creative INTP and work as a Mineral Exploration Geologist. I find the gathering and interpreting data part of the job awesome, but the part relating to the company can be excruciating. I mean, you have to pretend to be part of a "big family" and attend lots of boring and unnecessary meetings and all. I prefer to be at the field with all my rocks. (Plus, I do wish that I could use all of my gaming and anime expertise at the job 😂). Sometimes, I think about being a (pt-eng) translator. Maybe I could translate scientific texts or something 🤔

Basically any job that is behind the scenes.

As a creative INTP with high openness (90th percentile) and going through a mid 30's career transition, this was absolutely fascinating and useful! As a side note the career I am transitioning into combines ethnography, futurism and user experience research. So not only fascinating and useful but also reaffirming. Thank you for taking the time to put this information together and present it. Liked and subscribed and looking forward to absorbing more content.

AWESOME EPISODE

Woah, when she started reading off the list of creative INTP careers I was like ok these are actually interesting 🤔

Thx for years of amazing content. You mention potential links to brain chemistry. I’d be interested if things like ADD and/or medication like Adderall showed a correlation with these subtypes. I’m an ADD INTP, and when I’m on a stimulant medication, I’m very much a dominant intp. But when I’m not on a stimulant med, very much a creative intp. . Fascinating stuff. Thanks again for years of great mental crack!

This was really interesting. I could identify with aspects of all 4 sub-types, but the Dominant and Harmonizing subtypes have been more aspects of myself that I've developed over time to more effectively handle decision making and working with other people effectively more than areas I've naturally gravitated towards. Interestingly, I could relate to the Creative and Normalizing subtypes pretty equally, which seems contradictory, but it really depends on the nature of the work and my relation to it. Depending on the subject area I find that my interest can be more on the creative side or the normalizing side.

I can relate to the creative and the harmonizing subtypes but lean more towards the creative. It's been very difficult to stick with one job and make it interesting enough. I tend to think so much about the end result that I don't get anything done and then it tends to bore the hell out of me 😅. I am drawn to creating artwork and selling it as well as doing tarot readings. I'm trying to be consistent with making money from these outlets because they interest me the most, yet there's still that explorer within me that just wants to dabble in random things/topics which can leave me extremely debilitated and unmotivated in the end. Great video/podcast! Thanks for this it's helped me understand a bit more in depth about my type/subtype. 💜

Carl Jung was a harmonizing INTP.

INTP Creative for sure.

I did the test for the 3rd time some days ago, and on the 2nd time I actually got INFJ because I was on a period of my life of helping some friends out with their problems update: I actually understand now that I'm indeed INFJ. The reason I identified myself with INTP so deeply is because my social life was very unhealthy, and I was stuck in a Ni-Ti loop (so I was using more Ti than I should)

At Last but not least. Thank you.

As an intp i love cnc machining

Good stuff

I would like an Ilintp list of careers that don't require Insane amounts of education .. Not all of us have or had the privilege of being able to be in school all day , Nor were raised that environment where education was looked upon

Interestingly I've been considering RU-vid as a platform, and will be looking at platform options because I am transitioning I to an 'archaeological' type career.

I’m a creative INTP and my college majors are in Anthropology and Archaeology

As INTP Political/Military Strategist is good 👍

A travel writer would be great for an Intp who is creative however I think that career is predominantly Isfp haha combine that wit data science n u have a great path for an Intp n then Later a Intp venture into Infrastructure and then become a Enterprise Architect now u have a Intp who is wholesome

I got INFJ the first time I took the test. The 2nd and 3rd go I got INTP. I am a Harmonizer. I have recently applied to start an Occupational Therapy Assistant program. I also read books on Special Education and Autism. My youngest child is on the Spectrum and I would like to homeschool him by the time he gets to middle school. I am currently in Sales. It is not motivating for me and has been a job I've had to stay in out of necessity for my family. My 2 sons have two different fathers. Both are analytical thinkers and have interest in tech. One of them is in cybersecurity. I've had people at my job tell me I should be a trainer since I find ways to pass on resources to others and help them when they run into issues with their orders.

Great presentation! I could very well be a harmonizing intp. I am, however, unsure how much can be inferred from the preferred hormone; I'm blessed with a very masculine body type. Does this preclude an estrogene preference? Or is it unrelated to stereotypical male/female body morfologies?

Harmony

I always wanted to be an engineer as a kid. CAD fascinated me. I have a job as an Automation Design Engineer. It's like adult Legos with higher stakes. I think I'm a dominant type but I also identify with many of the creative characteristics. It's funny watching your video because I'm a team leader under the manager haha. I get myself in trouble sometimes with my harsh truths. I'm working on it.

INTP here, university IELTS speaking teacher ~

I am a creative INTP, this has given me a lot of perspective because I’ve been struggling with my work life. ( I do administration work and it’s boring and unfulfilling) I’m in my mid 20s and know I have a whole life ahead but anyways, any tips on jobs / careers from others who were once in my shoes is greatly appreciated!!

I'm also an INTP. I acknowledge that I have all 4 styles.

I am an INTP. Harmonizer seems to be my subtype. On the Big 5 I score highest on Agreeableness and very low on Openness. I wonder if there is a connection. High Openness indicates creativity. I wonder if Creative subtypes are high Openness on the Big 5? Just noting there might be a connection.

I can relate to the Harmonizing subtype of an INTP I wanted to become a Clinical Psychologist since I was a teenager I took Psychology through correspondent got my certificate I couldn't continue any further for financial reasons love the advise right on the nail for Harmonizing subtype of an INTP

Idk I see a lot of crossover for myself as an INTP who’s more action oriented because of the Marine Corps, I feel so burnt out and procrastinating. But I’m a Machinist and I like making and figuring out how the parts work together. It lets me make the things to see if my theory carried out into reality. I can do most stuff really good so I have a hard time specializing into something but I think I finally chose my core hobby / money maker . I can do CnC programming it I just enjoy the first off process to see if I can fix what is supposedly impossible. Machining on a lathe or mill is fun sometimes I feel like I might be istp but INTP always resonates far stronger.

O mine! I just found out that I tend to be a dominant INTP!

@44:20 She goes to say, “They’ve got that diamond shaped patterning.” But first, she says, “They’ve got that dank.” I wonder if that was a Freudian slip 🤣 Yes, we’ve got that dank 😎

For anyone not sure about mistyping, the official MBTI tells you the mindset you’re supposed to have when you take the test. Basically if you have 2 options that both sound good, if everything was fine in your life which would you choose? You can search on their site or on google for the exact words they use, but a lot of people don’t know this is the big difference between the tests. I took the test maybe 8 times once I typed as INTJ and another time as ESTP. These were after significant changes in my life which made me view the test differently. I took the official one last and I was back to my regular INTP.

Well holy shit. I am an INTP….. my entire life just…. 😅wow

Going into film studies

Finally

I find myself in the normalizing INTP camp, so I would add to the list at 39:20 the software architect. Yes, the architect was mentioned, and computer programmer also. Details, I guess, but yeah, interesting podcast.

Were they going to link to some Nardi materials for further reading? Espec explaining more what it means to be have Analytical Ne? Even better, how "Ne-a" compares and contrasts to Ni?

Are women INTPs statistically grouped more often in the harmonizing and/or creative subtypes vs the dominant & normalizing subtypes?

Would a person who uses "holistic introverted thinking (Ti)" as a main function and "analytical introverted intuition (Ni)" as an auxiliary function, be a creative INTP? Other options?

However, you have to keep in mind that I am a balanced INTP, and social one; alongside with living in Brazil, and work in something only Brazil has on this scale: recreation.

Ok, i appreciate the effort to distinguish between Harmonizing INTP and INFJ towards the end, but the distinction between a Harmonizing INTP and a Creative INFJ is REALLY hard for me to see... can anyone help me out with this?

I think Im a Notmalizing ISTP with an Passion in Health

You guys are wrong about 1 point. According to Gulenko Dominants actually mate best with Normalizers. And Creatives mate best with harmonizers in romantic relationships. I condensed Gulenko's view of intertype relationships between the DCNH types directly from his book "64 types" here: I. Symmetric-attractive (complementary duality): D-N & C-H - Have a harmonizing or soothing nature, similar to duality between core types. - Initially difficult, but partners increasingly begin to appreciate the advantages of each opposing role. - Become stronger in tough living conditions. - Provide physical compatibility (life, everyday communication, and intimate relationships). 2. Symmetric repulsive: Identical subtypes -Creative competition initially causes a mutual elevation, but eventually growing differences and mutual disappointment begins. -Serious testing of each other’s strengths begins that undercuts the relationship - Useful for shoulder-to-shoulder effort, training, innovation within a given field, mentoring children, personal development, improving awareness. 3. Asymmetric attractive (Beneficiary): D nudges C that nudges N that nudges H that nudges D to drive group dynamics. - Most suitable for social activity, intensive work, and overall expansion. 4. Asymmetric repulsive (Supervision): D audits H that audits N that impedes and corrects C that overrides D. - One-sided braking to correct errors. - Create psychological stability - Balance dreams and reality. - Best suited for friendship and education

What about business?

Normalizing INTP: ATTORNEY

INTP dominant. Entrepreneurship and freelancing.

16:40

Lord have mercy on the harmonizing INTP, sounds like a hell of a lot of abuse and abandonment to get to that point. Wanting to be an introvert but needing to connect with people to feel fulfilled. Just another giant obstacle in my life 🙄

Uh oh. I think me and my partner are both INTP. But i am a creative and she is a normal

I think Elon Musk is a rare dominant INTP. Which is why he is so hard to type. Because us INTPs are so rarely dominant.

This is why people don’t trust celebs any more

Sounds like Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party (dominant)

INTPs: Elon musk- dominant subtype Jordan Peterson- normalizing subtype

I’m a creative intp slowly turning to a dominant intp because I’m studying to become a marketing strategist but to be honest I might just become an entrepreneur and start selling courses. I think I like teaching things I’m confident in.