Need Help Regarding Major Selection -- Long Post Alert

juillet
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 04:33:40 +0000

I do want to caution you (and others) about putting too much stock in MBTI types. MBTI personality types are created by preferences; they’re not essentialist personality types or some kind of innate state of being. There are only 16 personality types but obviously there are billions of people and many thousands (millions?) of jobs that those people can do. I’m an ENTJ, and university professor is on my profile too as a suggested career. First, that website says this:

The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an ENTJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed. *

I spent several years in academia and I think I can say pretty confidently that the career of university professor is not for me. I also would be a terrible entrepreneur.

My Holland Codes are always all messed up - I score about equally on Social and Enterprising as the first letter, and then about equally on Investigative and Conventional as the second. I’m probably an ESI with a strong C influence, though.

One additional note, though, re: philosophy professors: Philosophy is one of THE most messed-up academic fields right now. Most people who begin a PhD in philosophy will never become full-time, tenure-track professors of philosophy. You may want to do some Internet searching and reading to find out why.