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Cabbo Pearimo

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Waffle waitress? Trucker? Coffee salesman?

For the latter; "you want the 32 ounce or the large?"

"S**t, how big's that large?"

"Bring your car 'round back, I'll get the pump."
 

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I currently work at BurgerKing which I enjoy. But when I graduate and go to coledge I want a proffesion. One thing I told myself is, What every coledge accepts me I will choose from a list of whatever that school teaches. But thats plan last one..
 

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you might want to learn how to spell college first.
 

Linsejko

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How is it possible to enjoy working at Burgerking? Perhaps you've found your purpose, I didn't think anyone could enjoy that but the CEO...

..even as an exec, how embarrassing, to say you work at Burger King!

(I worked at Sonic for a few weeks, so no offense. I'm a waiter now.)

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That plan can work I guess, except that you won't know which colleges to apply to... It certainly makes it easy to do what you want, if you don't decide what you want to do until you decide what you are guaranteed to know what you can easily do.

I have a feeling that that sentence will be confusing...

.L
 

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I change my mind a lot when it comes to careers. I can never settle on one for a long period of time.
Well, anyways, this week my dream job is to be a philanthropist.
But, like I said, it is a *dream* job.
 
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Agapooka

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Careers are just traps. I wish to be free of money.

I want the forest.

But if I must have a career, I would love to be a linguist. It's not as though I can't do that by myself. Independent research and studying is the most effective way of learning - and the least recognised with silly diplomas.

EDIT: On another note, I may or may nor be Interested iN Taming Penguinz...
 

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Careers are just traps. I wish to be free of money.

I want the forest.

But if I must have a career, I would love to be a linguist. It's not as though I can't do that by myself. Independent research and studying is the most effective way of learning - and the least recognised with silly diplomas.

EDIT: On another note, I may or may nor be Interested iN Taming Penguinz...

I agree with the careers are traps part, and the forest part at least ideally. I fancy myself a musician, though I don't have much of a clue what id actually want to do to pay the bills
 

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I plan on being a computer programmer/engineer...

I think I might to go a college called full sail, which is in Florida (Daytona, I think).
I've been trying to learn C++ and PEARL, but I don't have anything to practice on, so... That's kind of a problem.
 

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Biotechnology for me. I'm interested in many jobs, but I can only remember ever wanting to be a doctor or a biologist. Doctoring involves compassion and lots of patient/ peer interaction, so I'd rather have someone else more suited to the job take my place. Let's put it this way, would you want your doctor to answer "Yes" to your face if you asked them if you were going to die?

Also, biotechnology sounds really appealing.

Being a musician would be nice if I had more skill (WARNING: TALENTLESS PERSON ON BOARD).
 
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i was a brilliant pianist as a child and finished piano studies with the royal schools of london at 13.

parents didnt think it was a good idea to pursue this.

i really wanted to be a pilot and one day when i've got more time, i will get my flying license.

i was a brilliant debater in school... top in the country in fact.... hehe i could tear my opponents apart, dissect their case piece by piece and throw it back at them.

then i decided well, i could be a great lawyer.

studied economics, business, history and law, was good at all of them, so i had an interest in all these fields.

ended up doing law but got bored of it after a few years. completed my degree nonetheless.

went into advertising, didnt do too badly either, launched several good campaigns... i'm actually very proud of my work.

now i own a company and we manage.... IT.... lol... and i'm not doing too badly.

in between that i worked as a performance pianist to finance my law degree. i also worked as a dodgy telemarketer but hated that job to bits.

i wouldn't put my foot down on what profession "i'd want". let it find you.
 

Linsejko

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I would have enjoyed that life, Queen. I wish I'd been introduced to instruments at a young age, or had a T type parent to encourage me in that way so that I wasn't alone in figuring out what I wanted to do with life.

Can't have everything, I guess.

When were you most happy, QH?

.L
 

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Wow, way to go Hera!:eek: Thats a productive life, you seem to have overcomed some of the INTPs flaws. Kind of makes me wanna quit my meaningless job :p
 

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I wish I got into music earlier. I play piano and guitar at an intermediate level and I love it, but haven't had the time since I got into an art specialty center program. Maybe I could still have a chance at music for a career if I really stepped it up in college.
 

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The problem isn't whether you "have time" to learn music. Of course you do. I taught myself to play the piano at the age of 30. (With a solid background already on another keyboard instrument, the venerable accordion. Lawrence Welk and Myron Florn were big for my parents when I was growing up....) The problem is that it may be yet another of those things that you learn well enough to do competently, then get bored with it. As I did with the piano. (My level of "competence" might not be as high as most of yours in this particular field. I got to the point where I could not only play several songs from memory, but could improvise confidently within those songs. I've been away from it long enough now where going back to it and studying piano/music again might be fun, besides which the only song my fingers seem to remember at this point is "Sh-boom." Not exactly a dazzling repertoire.)

Honest, I really think a quest to find one perfect source of permanent fulfillment for any INTP is about up there with finding the Holy Grail. And this is one of those deals where thinking about it won't clear it up, you'll have to experience it. (Which I've done, you'll notice, but you'll all have less faith in my own experience than you do in your own. :-) )

I am ready to stand corrected and be cheerful and gracious in the process, but everything points toward a series of professional/vocational/personal interests over a long period of time. And if you find me an INTP who has been happy in one profession for, oh, 35 or 40 years, I'd say look at the particulars of that profession and you'll probably find that it in itself has changed over that period of time.

Just sayin'. I regret, for the one thousandth time, that I never knew all this about myself at the age of 14. It would have saved a lot of turmoil. :-)
 
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I am a writer, and fed up with not enough dosh. Lots of odd jobs.

Writing articles, plus talks, presentations, selling photographs, webmaster etc.

A whole catalogue of past jobs usually involving writing, designing, etc.

Most jobs end in intimidation disputes.
 

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Archaeology, Historical Linguistics.
 

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I have no idea what I want to do. Well, I should say I have MANY ideas of what I'd like to do. Chemist, neurologist, psychologist, author (unlikely), pilot (even more unlikely), etc. Mostly I just want to travel a lot.
--Edit: forgot to mention anthropologist and reseacher.
 

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I'm chemist working as an engineer trying to transition into psychology, eventually intent on being an author and/or inventor.

*edit* And to think I used to believe I was a J
 

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ISFJ (Mouse) is the travelling type.

ISTJ (Bull) is the Chemical Engineer. I met one yesterday. He filled the allocation most accurately. He did not like me all that much.


I have the "favoured" Beaver variant at the junction of ESTJ/ESTP. The scientific name of Beaver is a favourable omen. Alas, the Phoenix INFP/INTP will accuse the Beaver of interrupting the flow, damning up the stream of consciousness. The clash can be seen.

Andy
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The quiet solitude of writing is an INTP dream.
 

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When I was young I wanted to be a archealogist/dinosaur hunter. Basically I wanted to be Indiana Jones at Jurassic Park.
 

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I am only 18 right now and i seem to have an intense lack of motivation. i could see myself being interested in such fields as science or physics but the whole idea bores me. I want to get a lot out of life without working to hard although i don't think that would leave me satisfied. Basically i have no clue what i want to do and it is almost mind boggling.
 

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I am only 18 right now and i seem to have an intense lack of motivation. i could see myself being interested in such fields as science or physics but the whole idea bores me. I want to get a lot out of life without working to hard although i don't think that would leave me satisfied. Basically i have no clue what i want to do and it is almost mind boggling.

If you're male, be a professional sperm donor.
 

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Tailoring/enchanting - as a druid. :P
 

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Haha, i doubt that would generate money...
I'd like to become an old, wise wizard in some ivory tower, but i doubt it to be possible ;)

You know, actually i have similar problems. I do have fields of interests (to many that is), i am studying something which can bring me to interesting professions, but i think about 'work' as somethin annoying but, alas, necessary. So every day i am thinking about how i could combine interest with earning money, and till now i didn't come up with a solution^

Ogion
 

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I'd like to rebuild failing old daily newspapers from the ground up and make them successful under the new rules we seem to be operating under.

Anyone got $20 million or so to lend me to get started? :-)
 

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I'm a cashier at the moment. I'm only 17, so this isn't what I intend to do long term, but it's more interesting than I thought. I get to listen to troubled people tell their life stories while I scan their groceries. There was also this one idiot that I had to persuade to take back his $20 change!
 

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Its not only that i am young and unmotivated, i am also pretty broke...i am in a situation where i need a job but i hate every possibility i have in my little town and not enough money to get away from here....so i sit here getting stoned and sulk.
 

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I want to be a poet. Preferably before I turn 70.

I want to teach literature in exciting ways.

I want to write and draw comics. Some of them on philosophy.
 

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If you really want to get away, floater, you can. Apathy is your greatest enemy, and drugs are pollution of the mind. Sounds like you could use some good hard work, too. Maybe go find a farm to work at- would do you a lot of good.

(I aspire to work on a farm in rural china at some point in my life, for the record.)

.L
 

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After working in a range of fields from Business analyst for GE to Nutritional Supplement R &D tech, I have settled on ....Nursing. I figured out that all the problem-solving and cleverness-cultivating doesn't hold a candle as a work-satisfier to pure human gratitude. I went through a substantial period of "people suck" self-centeredness, and to a degree I still hold that feeling about the collective "people". What changed for me was a revalation that "persons" by and large DON'T suck. The health-care environment (in the area of direct patient care, at least) is to a large extent completely different than the corporate business environment. It's quite an eye-opener to receive conspicuous and authentic gratitude 20 times a day from patients, pt family and fellow staff.

It's enough to make me think that maybe I have shifted to IFTP MB type.
 

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I never had a clue what I wanted to do for my profession. I went to school for medicine, but realized it was not for me after a while. I am currently working for a Technical Staffing firm. I have recently been promoted to a Branch Manager over our Phoenix territory. I am under task to bring it from our least profitable territory to our most profitable in the next 9-12 months. I will probably be promoted to some sort of Business Development position within the next year or two. I do not love my job, as it is not very intellectually stimulating, but it is not a bad fit for my type.
 

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. Sorry, I'm just that excited about it.
 

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. Sorry, I'm just that excited about it.


i wish i could study that. maybe after graduation. for now (must decide till march 09') i think my choice will be microbiology, biotechnology, biochemistry or lab. medicine. probably the ladder.
 

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friend of mine just finished university and has a degree in molecular biologi. i've opened my eyes abit for biologi. But i still really like mathmatics, aswell as physics.

I've also started playing guitar, mainly in the sparetime. i think it's an awesome stress relief to play music. Luckily in denmark education is free. thus there is more emphasis on doing well on your grades. Sadly, for me, the school system is very verbal. If it was the american schoolsystem, the written grades would account for more, and make my grades better.


But there is other things i like, and it's tough to have a pick at something specific.

- litterature?
- Business school
- Art school
- Architect school'

for example... can't pick.
 

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Something to do with language and linguistics. Maybe a translator or a writer...something along those lines
 

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The good thing about Molec. Bio. Engineering is that it is all the sciences (minus astronomy, for the most part) plus math, plus random though, plus some art skills could be handy. My kind of work. I like that it's flexible so I can change from one project to another and that I can, say, decide to move up or down on the chemistry<>biology spectrum, the engineering<>science spectrum and others. It avoids annoying and heartwrenching decisions over which of these I like better.
 

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friend of mine just finished university and has a degree in molecular biologi. i've opened my eyes abit for biologi. But i still really like mathmatics, aswell as physics.

I've also started playing guitar, mainly in the sparetime. i think it's an awesome stress relief to play music. Luckily in denmark education is free. thus there is more emphasis on doing well on your grades. Sadly, for me, the school system is very verbal. If it was the american schoolsystem, the written grades would account for more, and make my grades better.


But there is other things i like, and it's tough to have a pick at something specific.

- litterature?
- Business school
- Art school
- Architect school'

for example... can't pick.

Is there math school?

If I wasn't going into science/engineering, I would become a theoretical/experimental mathematician and spend all of my time holed up with mountains of scratch paper in some University somewhere. That would be the second best thing.
 
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