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splitter

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*Here was a long text*

Let's keep it simple, I don't want to stress you <:

My problem is: everything gets boring, learning facts is boring, if I know the trick behind it it is boring, it was fun? well now it is boring, mathematics? pure overkill.

What am I looking for? I'm looking for a job that has a sense/meaning (out of my sight) and gives me money.
If that's not possible, then a job which gives me money and makes me maybe a BIT happy.

My skills and talents?
I have none, sad but true, let's keep it real.

What do I like?
Cosmic laws, perception, unconsciousness, music, nature, spirituality, IT(but just for fun), I imagined to be an actor (forget that, just a thought), yeah.. well.. and now I have to know what to do.
I hate people who are lazy and my power level goes over 9000 if somebody tries to be in my way just to disturb me.
I have do admit that I'm not an easy case ;)
I'm a 20 year old guy with no plan what to do, I have to point out that I'm not that fascinated by money, I just want to live.

(Now the text is long again... lol, but better structured)
I'm not sure if I'm really an "INTP", but from what I saw.. I'm pretty close.
So, do you have an idea what I could work on?
Maybe a good one?

with many greetings :)
 

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I think everyone is looking for a job like that. One that means something to us, is relevant to our interests, pays reasonably, makes us happy and requires little skill? Those are few and far between.

You must have some skills. What are you good at? Otherwise it's kind of hard to know what to suggest.
 

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I find the clue is to find something enjoyable about one's work. If there are poor selections, I mean. I wasn't too fond of my current job either, but I created challenged for myself. I constantly tried to find new way of doing things, experimenting, making my work more efficient and trying to do as much as I could. It made a plain job more bearable. I got promoted for doing an excellent job as well.
 

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I think everyone is looking for a job like that. One that means something to us, is relevant to our interests, pays reasonably, makes us happy and requires little skill? Those are few and far between.
Some people don't give a shit, they are just doing things that are unnecessary, get their money and are hoping for the weekend. <-- I try to avoid that in any case!

You must have some skills. What are you good at? Otherwise it's kind of hard to know what to suggest.

Why do I must have some skills?
You are right, it's hard to know what to do if you don't have any special skills.
(Maybe you could give a few examples of "skills"?)
That's why I'm here.
Seems like a dead end, only question now is, go study or find directly a job?

I constantly tried to find new way of doing things, experimenting, making my work more efficient
First I would do my tasks so I can accomplish everything, right after that I would do what you wrote :)
 

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Find a job that constantly changes.
Firefighter; psychiatrist; insurance adjuster; journalist.
Every day something new.
I'm kind of down on journalist right now: You really could starve to death on that one. :-)
Remember, also, you can change your field any time you want. You have a long runway ahead of you. You can change fields five times in your life if you want, easily. One of the things you have, in addition to the capacity for being bored easily, is the capacity to learn easily. It continues even when you reach my advanced years: Less than three weeks study and I passed the state licensing exam for public insurance adjuster solicitor. Believe me, I didn't understand my own insurance policy before getting into this. (And I might be smarter than a lot of other people, but I'm not smarter than the average in this forum. Lot of brain power in here, although it seems like not all of you realize your potential in that as well as you understand your INTP aspects. :-) )
 

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it seems like not all of you realize your potential
I don't want to talk about me like a poor idiot, but I recently noticed that I'm kind of .. dumb, it was a (extreme)hard insight.
Other people grasp things more quickly and they learn things faster ! I was kind of shocked/surprised as most people could "beat" me in time of learning. (It was a controlled situation, we had the same time to learn a few things)
At least it showed my limits~

Firefighter; psychiatrist; insurance adjuster; journalist.
psychiatrist.. a good idea, albeit I'm not very social.

many greetings~
 

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Psychiatrist is a nice profession, but you have to listen to people whining... I think I'm not the only INTP who hates when people have idiotic point of views and are whining about something idiotic. People who goes to psychiatrists usually are doing exactly that. I'm considering being a psychiatrist, but this is what bugs me, makes me wonder if I won't go crazy listening to all that crap while not being able to say anything...
As for the learning part, personally I learn everything very slowly at school. However I can remember almost everything what I read on the internet at home. The difference is - what I read at home is interesting and is in English. If it's not interesting - it's hard to learn, it makes you miserable, it bores you to death, sometimes you spend 4 hours reading something and still don't remember a thing. Or it's just me?

@EditorOne: do you find journalism interesting? There is a low of exaggerated stories, some untruthfulness. I don't know if this is an INTP feature, but I don't want to give information I don't believe in, or even worse - write it. I can do it, but I don't like doing it.
 
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Don't be a bloody primary school teacher :( Bad idea. I thought it would be good because it is different every day and you can learn about stuff all the time. But it is freaking shit.

Personally, I'd be happy with a easy-ish job with little pressure, then I can go home and do what I want to do.
 

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"Don't be a bloody primary school teacher :( Bad idea. I thought it would be good because it is different every day and you can learn about stuff all the time. But it is freaking shit. "

You simply misidentified the core of the job. Could happen to anyone. I misjudged a potential employer once and spent three years suffering under the despotic heel of an anal retentive sensing judgmental extrovert. I'm not afraid of hell any more; it couldn't be worse than that.

But I escaped. :D Your life is a movie, you are the director, etc. etc. rah rah rah.
 

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Personally, I'd be happy with a easy-ish job with little pressure, then I can go home and do what I want to do.
Sounds nicely :)
But what about a job that is your hobby? Wouldn't that be the best?
Yeah yeah.. but find a job like that.

many greetings~
 

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But I escaped. :D Your life is a movie, you are the director, etc. etc. rah rah rah.

While I will be considered the author of my life, those who star in it will receive far more credit for it than I ever will?
 

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Look into forestry, the schooling is quite easy, as well as the job, but you get paid quite a bit of money (in high demand). You also have the option (if you so desire) to go on hiking or camping trips for your job, to survey land, take soil samples (and other types of samples I think), and check up on recently planted forests. You dont plant trees, you can be the person organizing such things. You can also work for nation parks and conservation areas, advising them, although most of the jobs and money are in cutting down and replanting trees. A good friend of mine went into this field and he loves it.

Since you said you like nature and spirituality (where better to experience that than in nature) you should look into it. I live in Canada where this is a huge industry out on the west coast in the mountains, but you could check out what it is like in Austria, I'm sure there must be something in the mountains over there (generally where they do it, I don't know why exactly). Good luck with finding a job. :)

Oh also, the marks required to gain admission into a forestry program are generally very low (75% average over here, not sure how that transfers but almost all universities in Canada require an 80% average for admission, if that helps).
 
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