Portrait of an ENFP

Today I have been thinking about what I should do with my life. For some reason, God keeps bringing the words "bondage breaker" to my head. I googled it. I knew it was a book, but I wasn't familiar with it other than the title. That connected me to "Freedom In Christ Ministries". AH-mazing ministry. Basically a job like that would be the perfect fit...except for they only have a few Field Staff. They are run basically by people who volunteer to go through bondage breaker training and then be the contact person in that specific region. Blast....volunteer jobs don't pay the bills. Plus, I think I'm a little young to be a public speaker to impact change in the masses. Another thing God keeps bringing to my head is "a person of influence". I'm starting to see I might have this gift, but what am I suppose to do with that?! What do all these pieces mean? Why are these words coming to my mind? This virtue of patience is elusive. Once you think you're doing pretty well with it; you realize you have a long way to go.

So I decided to look up my Myers-Briggs strengths finder results... I am an ENFP. (ENFP= Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving) They say...
ENFPs generally have the following traits:
- Project-oriented
- Bright and capable
- Warmly, genuinely interested in people; great people skills
- Extremely intuitive and perceptive about people
- Able to relate to people on their own level
- Service-oriented; likely to put the needs of others above their own
- Future-oriented
- Dislike performing routine tasks
- Need approval and appreciation from others
- Cooperative and friendly
- Creative and energetic
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- Natural leaders, but do not like to control people
- Resist being controlled by others
- Can work logically and rationally - use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it
- Usually able to grasp difficult concepts and theories

ENFPs are lucky in that they're good at quite a lot of different things. An ENFP can generally achieve a good degree of success at anything which has interested them. However, ENFPs get bored rather easily and are not naturally good at following things through to completion. Accordingly, they should avoid jobs which require performing a lot of detailed, routine-oriented tasks. They will do best in professions which allow them to creatively generate new ideas and deal closely with people. They will not be happy in positions which are confining and regimented.
Also-if you wish to continue picking-my-brain an expanded description available... http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html

So there you have it. If you could flip to the back of my brain & check the index on "How Melody Ticks"...you'd get this information. Along with that, these are my suggested career paths and my initial reaction to each...
- Consultant (I don't even know what that is & it sounds boring)
- Psychologist (Great job...more school...mo' money)
- Entrepreneur (You mean, like Rockefeller the oil dude? Hmm- think this requires cashflow too)
- Actress (Dream job...that got crushed by relatives when I was little. Hard to consider now)
- Teacher (Eww. No never. Two words- 'lesson plans')
- Counselor (Similar to my favorite part of my current job-but need more school to go deeper)
- Politician / Diplomat (Uhhh...i'm anti-legalism, so more gov't laws are just as unappealing)
- Writer / Journalist (Strangers really have to like my writing in order for me to be successful)
- Television Reporter (Did you know tv adds 7-10 pounds?)
- Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst, or Computer Specialist (Not much face-to-face time with people...I wanna hear problems, not DOSS mode code)
- Scientist (Uhh...what? Only if I can be a MAD scientist)
- Engineer (In my experience, they lack people skills. Why is this even an option on my list?)

What to do...what to do... *sigh* And so I keep waiting for all the puzzle pieces to fall into place.