For any INFP or ENFP, what is your career? Do you enjoy it?
When I graduated high school there were few opportunities for me despite the fact that the test-makers found my I.Q. to be in the genius range. Five years later, single again and with a baby to support I began nursing school. For 14 years I worked as an R.N., supporting myself and my child, putting my husband through school and enlarging my family.At the age of 38, I retired from nursing somewhat by accident and a few years later I entered a university where I studied for 2 and a half years and discovered my love of creative writing.At age 56, I had my first poem published and went on to be widely published as a poet after that. Today, I work as a poetry moderator on an online forum. In 2014 my husband and I co-wrote a book of haiku titled Lighting a Path. A couple of years later, I wrote Blue Dragonfly, a book of haiku, tanka and related forms.I am also writing my first novel and exploring the arts through clay sculpting and watercolor. While my husband and I turned a modest profit with out book, I am seldom economically compensated for the creative work I do. I have however, established a solid reputation in my fields. I love creating as a career and at the age of 62 am experiencing a personal renaissance and flowering that has taken me by surprise.
Should you pick a career that you enjoy or one that your most interested in?
I will attempt to answer this question a bit differently, stick with me here.I suggest you follow your passion, or what you enjoy most. Now this statement in it of itself is terrible advice that has been passed around for many, many years. What does it even mean? Let's break it down.The way I see it, with regards to your career, there are three key focus areas in which you can be passionate about. If you're extremely fortunate, perhaps you can find something that enables you to find passion in all three.#1 Why do you do what you do?With regards to your career, job title, responsibilities, company vision, etc., why do you do what you do? What is the purpose? Is the answer to this something that gets you fired up and excited about? Or is it meaningless to you?People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. - Simon Sinek#2 How do you do what you do?Processes. Systems. Integrations. How you do what you do really matters. You can practically fall in love with a particular process or system or completely despise it. Believe it or not, but there are many individuals out there who are passionate about how they get their work done. These individuals have either mastered or innovated their how and love it. You know who they are; they're the ones who are eager to rush over to your desk and show you how it's done. Think about your past experiences with the how. What did you love? What did you hate?Fall in love with the process and results will come. - Unknown#3 Who do you do it for?If you can't get passionate about the why or the how, perhaps you can find passion in whom you serve. Think of people that work with children. Typically speaking, to enter that type of field you would possess an innate passion for helping kids. Same goes for doctors and their patients, lawyers and their clients, etc. Try to find a select audience that you feel most passionate about helping and go out and do just that.Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. - Les BrownI hope you found this helpful. The point being, we should not give up on passion and enjoyment, we may just need to look a little deeper to find it.
How does it feel like to have a job you love?
You look forward to mondays.You're that person that comes in early, even though you don't have to. You're often the last to leave. You don't have to be. You just want to be.Your boss has to tell you to take it easy. A lot of the time. But you know that even though she says that, she's actually proud of you. There's this look in her eyes...And she treats you accordingly. That's why you get the best quarterly staff appraisals. That's why she never misses an opportunity to mention you in a good light to the higher-ups. That's not why you do it, though. Nah.You actually feel as if your colleagues are family. When you're away from this bunch is when you feel like something is missing. Being with them is when you feel normal. The crazy buggers. They're hillarious. Every. Single. One of them.But it's the work that's the really fun part. It's what you truly enjoy about being here. Thing is, you can hardly remember the last time it actually felt like "work". It feels like something you would do for fun. Even if no one paid you to do it.You see, not only are you good at it, it's good to you: It gives you some serious psychological rewards. Honest. There is this "Zone" you get into when you begin to do your thing. They call it a state of "Flow" I think. (Or is that a state only geniuses get into? Who knows these things?). In any case, It's making star out of you.That's the reason you're the cornerstone of the team. You give too many shits. Thats why, in addition to your own work you kind of know where everyone else is on theirs. And you just know when they need a helping hand. And you just give it. You don't even think about it much. That's just the way you want to be. Besides, you know they'd do it for you as well. One for all...Either all of that, or you're the founder of your own company and you are passionate about what you do.
Do you enjoy your career as an dialysis tech? Is it a demanding career?
I am not a dialysis tech but used to be on dialysis, learned a lot about it, and still know some of the people who work there. I am the US, if that helps. First - no, you DON'T have to be a nurse. The majority of people working there were not RNs; they were called patient care techs. In our area, patient care techs make more money than CNAs. At least one of the dialysis providers will pay for your education if you want to become a RN (and keep working there for at least a year afterwards). The RN in charge of the place was making $50 at hour (after a long time in the business). I would look on this website: www.davita.com - to check out what they expect of their dialysis techs regarding education and training. I would recommend volunteering there so that first of all they get to know you and you have an inside track into getting a job.
What do you enjoy about being a Nurse?
I love almost everything about it. Helping patients, and their families, teaching, and learning something new almost daily. Nursing can be a fun career, you get to see the stupid things people do, believe me some times you wonder how people can be so stupid. It's never boring!! It can also be tough emotionally, you will see horrible things throughout your career. Physically, it's a hard job, some days I'm literally shaking by the time I get home because I'm so tired, and even then I still LOVE BEING A NURSE! Please check out the website allnurses.com it's fantastic