I have mixed thoughts on my Jung typology test. The test placed me as an “INFP”, which seemed right by the description, but when I go into the possible career choices, it kind of gets me wrong. For instance, it says that I should pursue a career in literature and writing or a career in religious education. I don’t care for religion, I can respect it for its feel good feeling and its giving of security for the afterlife that it gives people but other than that, it is a thing that I despise. Then the literature portion, I hate writing/typing. Now don’t get me wrong when I was in public school I wrote story after story, but as far as pursuing it as a career, count me out. It also said that I would be good in graphics design and multimedia. Now this is an on the fence job for me, because I can think of so many things to create, but lack the artistic vision or skill to place them on paper. Now psychology would be the only one out of the list that somewhat would be a job that I possibly wouldn’t mind to do, just because I kind of do that already. Every time I turn around there is another person wanting to talk about their “feelings” or their “problems” and just start talking away as if I hit the stopwatch and said lets begin. It gets to the point that they start talking about their childhood and how terrible/good their parents were to them. For some reason their stories always move me, into the point of telling them something that they were looking for, or not looking for, but leaving them in a place of contentment.
Now aside from the job choices that the test says that I should take, I almost whole heartedly agree with the description of my character. The part where I feel that it falls short on me, or maybe, would be the part about possibly having an imaginary friend. Now I talk to myself almost as if I am or have another person inside that I argue with, but I wouldn’t think of it as an imaginary friend for, he has no name. I do however, “bring mundane objects to life”, see the face in the front of the car, give the toaster and stove personality, laugh at the fridge, etc. I also agree with the part where it says, “INFP’s have the ability to see good in almost anyone or anything”, I have a problem with this part of my character, not that the Jung test got it wrong, but about myself. I have a problem with keeping bad people around, and a problem with saying no. For instance, I have this friend who is into drugs deep, but I keep him around to try to help him, but It kind of drags me down in the process and he asks for money, and ill almost put myself into the hole, just to let him borrow. Now I’m not going to write a whole bunch about being an introvert, because that is definitely me. I don’t like to socialize with other people, and a lot of times I go great lengths to avoid it…….unless I’m drunk. I don’t like parties, if I want to get my drink on, I would much rather be the one who goes to the bar alone, rather than go to a massive party. If I do socialize, it’s usually the one on one approach, I hate crowds. Now the weird part about this is that I’m also in a band that goes and plays for crowds.
The typology that I’m placed in makes sense, it’s just weird looking back at myself like this. I usually go the day to day with the, no care, style. I think that seeing this and actually writing about my personality, or type, makes me think that I need to re-evaluate myself and maybe try and change. Like I stated in the previous paragraph, I tend to attract the wrong type of people as friends, because I see good in everything.
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