Hi,
I like computer science, social work, and teaching as majors.
I took personality tests with a guidance counselor and got an mbti type of isfp which leans medical/socialwork/teaching/art
I cant do medical I make too many mistakes and dont want the pressure, i dont want art at all
I got a raisec holland code of social with conventional and investigative
Teaching is primarily social and secondarily some sources say investigative and conventional and some say artistic,
social work is primarily social and some sources say secondarily investigative but some say secondarily artistic and programming is conventional with investigative
Looking over some descriptions of magazines and tv shows the different holland types I like social very strongly over the others and based on a description of values I prefer social pretty strongly
I really want to learn about how people think but like the money and math/sci of programming, so i thought I’d do teaching
however, I’m not a fan of public speaking and think teachers do the same thing year after year
Also, I have schizophrenia and am not sure anyone will hire me as a teacher
looking at the types it might be the conventionalness holding me to teaching/programming but idk
any of the tests could be wrong and idk what to do
I do have an interest in reading self help books on the side, its the only thing similar to a job i do for fun
also when i was in middle school and imagined my dream job it was to build a system to predict and fully map out the functions behind human behavior
Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you!!!
So here’s something: the MBTI is not a valid or reliable psychological test. It was developed by two people who had little to no experience in psychometric testing, and it doesn’t have any predictive ability in interests or job types. The idea that people can be divided into 16 personality types is overly simplistic, and the spectra it uses don’t make sense (for example, thinking and feeling are not opposites; they’re orthogonal). I am an ENTJ, according to MBTI; the job I do isn’t on or closely related to any of the recommended ENTJ jobs, but I love my job and it suits me very well.
My suggestion? Don’t worry so much about the personality types. Taking those tests can help illuminate to you how you think about things and what you like to do, but most of them aren’t actually that rigorously tested, and even the few that are are not strongly linked to careers or fields.
The real question is what do you like to do? What are your interests? What kind of tasks do you see yourself doing at work every day? What kind of environment - a classroom, an office, outside?
If you’re not even in college yet, you’ve got plenty of time to decide on a career.
Most psych tests are like horoscopes, they’re based on not a whole lot, and you could find that most of the personality types apply like 40-60% to you. Don’t read into them too far.