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Career direction for my personality type...surprisingly accurate. ESFJs generally have the following traits:
- Organized
- Loyal
- Can be depended on to follow things through to completion
- Enjoy creating order, structure and schedules
- Enjoy interacting with people
- Warm-hearted and sympathetic
- Tend to put others' needs above their own
- Very good at giving practical care
- Very cooperative, good team members
- Practical and down-to-earth
- Value peaceful living and security
- Enjoy variety, but work well with routine tasks
- Need approval from others
- Receive satisfaction from giving to others
- Live in the here and now - dislike theorizing about the future
The ESFJ has two primary traits which will help define their best career
direction: 1) they are extremely organized and enjoy creating order, and
2) much of their self-satisfaction is gotten through giving and helping others.
Accordingly, they will do well at tasks which involve creating or
maintaining order and structure, and they will be happiest when they
are serving others. ....ESFJs belong to the temperament of the Guardians and are called Providers what are you?
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| an entry from nearly two years ago.
when successful people are interviewed, the interviewer usually asks:
"what advice do you have for people struggling/aspiring to do what you are doing?"
more often than not the interviewee answers:
"never give up. if you keep trying you will succeed, and i am living proof"
for example:
The obvious next most important thing you need is something
that many young people nowadays just do not have and that is discipline
and what I call a never give up attitude - Jean Claude Van Damme
I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches,
like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement
exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before
this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."
And somebody else said: "Every day in every way I'm getting better and
better." I didn't especially believe that about myself, but I said it
every day and I made myself believe it and it worked. I persevered. I
never gave up my dream to "sing on the radio." And that dream came true
in 1955. - Johnny Cash
J.K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter series, had the idea
for a series of wizard books for years, but had to pay the bills and
support her daughter. She worked for a long time as a secretary and
teacher, but never gave up on her idea. She is now one of the world's
most famous ?and wealthiest ?authors.
My answers are always boring,
but they're the only ones I think that work is that,
you know, everybody is always looking for a short
cut and there aren't any. It's just hard work built
upon hard work. I mean, it's weird, as you're saying
this is a piece of advice, but you can't listen to
anybody, either, because everybody who told me something
was always wrong. Because I think deep down everybody
wants you to fail (laughter). Nothing makes people
happier than watching their friends fail. So you know,
everybody would complain about how the music was like
this, the movies like that. You can't do this and
you can't do that. They were all wrong and if I had
listened to any of these people I would have been
screwed twenty years ago. Everybody I know who had
some crazy idea and stuck to it and just wouldn't
let go eventually became successful and that was whether
it was in music or fashion or movies or whatever,
sports, I don't know. Someone told Tony Hawk to get
off his skateboard and get a real job at some point. - Rob Zombie
i suppose it's a lot easier to give up and settle for 'ok'.
i've also been watching/reading on the same topic and have made the following notes:
- your purpose in life is what YOU say it is, your mission is what YOU give YOURSELF. add value to this world in whatever way you see fit.
- embrace what you want, and be grateful for what you have rather than wasting time and energy fighting or complaining
- whether you think you can, or you can't. either way you are right ~ Ford
i guess what i'm trying to say is, don't forget about your dreams and as much as you have to face reality (for most of us at this very moment, that's finances) don't let half your life go by and look back only to realize that all you did was "work". it's difficult to wrap your head around you being in control of your destiny rather than...teachers, professors, your parents, who have been in control for the last 20 years. i guess it's cliche but i'm going to say it anyway, if you don't start by believing in yourself, nobody will follow you in the same belief so....you can do it/gaa yao (add gas)!  oh and i also think it's alright to work and pursue your dream at the same time because sometimes financially, "entry-level" into your dream is worse than working at walmart. i'm looking forward to seeing what everyone around me is capable of in the next couple years.
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