Your Personality Can Help You Find Your Career

Most people accidentally “fall” into a career they dislike, and often due to their financial situations, feel stuck in a rut. Interestingly, a recent survey found that over 80% of workers are disengaged from their careers. The average person spends a third of their life at work. To spend that amount of time in a job you do not like can be very disheartening. Do you love or hate your job? Do you spend the majority of your week doing something you don’t enjoy? Do you want to find something that gives you a buzz?

Everyone has something unique, and the knowledge of your personality can be a great help towards finding a career that gives you purpose.

Let Your Personality Choose Your Career.

Enjoyment in work and, by extension, life depends on how well your career matches your unique personality. Research shows that most traditional jobs are not always the most enjoyable. You should find your best fit, and it starts with knowing the true you. If you worked at a company where waste is not tolerated, and the environment is very process-driven, it would be challenging for an individual who is very creative and innovative to perform in a fixed work environment.

The Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) and the John L Holland Theory of Careers have been a great source of information one can use to find your fit.

Do you ever have that feeling like something is not right but cannot put your hand on it? Chances are that your personality is not the right fit for your current environment. I had that feeling, and in hindsight, I can now understand my continued discontentment with my place of employment.

For example, I have an ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving) personality. I am more prone to working with my hands and have a strong aesthetic appreciation for art. I don’t like to feel “box in,’ and value freedom to be innovative and creative, and I always find ways to push my passions. I can remember working at a store in a mall from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, attending to the handful of customers entering the store. A day seemed like a year, and it drove a hole inside of my heart, and I did not know why. Now picture someone who likes to work with their hands and love the outdoors, cooped up in a small store all day. I was literally dying to get out of there every day. 

When armed with an understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, values, interest, etc. you are in an excellent position to pick a career that can be very rewarding. It's critical to understand what is imperative to your development, and as such, the indicator can provide a detailed look at your personality. Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits which will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers.

 It is truly fascinating to understand your purpose; life becomes so more meaningful. Most people find this hard to figure out. Everyone has a mixture of personality traits; something makes us stress, while other things motivate us. Working in a messy environment is highly stressful; for someone else, the same workplace is stress-free.

Once you understand you, life becomes free. We spend a lot of our time at work, and so it is important to get these issues right, or we could spend many hours unhappy, unproductive, and unfulfilled. I can now understand my passion for writing and helping people find their purpose because of the nature of my unique personality.

You can be happy; you can enjoy your life, and enjoy your work. All you need is to understand you and the unique gifts you were blessed with.  

About The Author

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Inspiration creates the highest levels of engagement, it is what separates the best leaders from everyone else, and it is what employees want most in their leaders. The Inspirational Leader, Inspire Your Team To Believe In The Impossible was written to help all leaders successfully navigate all the disruptions in today fiercely competitive world we need a new generation of leaders who care deeply for the well-being of their team and who understand that their people are the heart of their leadership. Each chapter in this book will push you to become the leader you were destined to be; a leader of influence, a leader of value, a leader of vision, and most importantly, an inspirational leader. 

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