My EXTREME personality!

What do Dick Clark, Helen Keller, the Virgin Mary, John the Beloved Disciple, Fred Savage, E.T., Mister Rogers, Amy Tan, Jackie Kennedy, Neil Diamond, and Jeff Moles have in common?

We are all INFP's!

We got the results yesterday morning of one of the personality tests we took with our vocational discernment specialist, Janet -- the Myers-Briggs test. I am an INFP. What, you ask, is an INFP? Well, I thought the description fit me pretty darn well. I fit that category nearly perfectly. Everybody else's results were a little more wishy-washy than mine.

Here is the summary of what an INFP (Introvert-iNtuitive-Feeling-Perceptive) is like:

Full of enthusiasms and loyalties, but seldom talk of these until they know you well. Care about learning, ideas, language, and independent projects of their own. Tend to undertake too much, then somehow get it done. Friendly, but often too absorbed in what they are doing to be sociable. Little concerned with posessions or physical surroundings.

In general, they focus deeply on their values and devlote their lives to pursuing the ideal. They often draw people together around a common purpose and work to find a place for each person within the group. They are creative, and they seek ne ideas and possibilities. They quietly push for what is important to them, and they rarely give up. While they have a gentleness about them and a delightful sense of humor, they may be somewat difficult to get to know and may be overlooked by others. They are at their best making their world more in line with their internal vision of perfection.

I cheated a little bit and looked ahead at what we will be talking about in a future meeting with Janet, and this is the list of suggested career paths for INFP personality types (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP_car.html):

-Writers
-Counselors/Social Workers
-Teachers/Professors
-Psychologists
-Psychiatrists
-Musicians
-Clergy/Religious Workers

I don't know--do you think I would ever want to do any of these?