Monday Morning & Myers-Briggs Insights
Aug. 27th, 2007 06:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI had a nice, quiet weekend, lightened by a surprisingly enjoyable performance of a melodrama spoof called The Villain's Web at Second Story Rep. I had a good solid sleep last night.
But I woke tired and don't want to go to work.
The fact that my gadget's calendar tells me I have a meeting with Miss V this morning does nothing to enhance my mood.
I didn't work on updating my resume for the training position over the weekend.
Last week at my team's offsite, we worked with our Myers-Brigg's profiles. I'm an INTJ: introverted, intuitive, thinking, judgmental. Which means: I recharge my energy by being alone; I rely more on intuition to process information than simply my five senses and prefer big-picture work rather than being down in the details; I make decisions more by logic and reason than by thinking about relationships and harmony; and I prefer my life to have order and planning rather than be spontaneous.
My day job is better suited for an Extroverted Sensor: someone energized by contact with other people, and who likes focusing on the details. My boss has ADD and is frequently changing plans -- thus requiring me to make a lot of last-minute schedule changes and needing new projects and priorities done before I finsih the previous ones (although, to his credit, he hasn't demanded unreasonable tasks or changes to my own schedule).
On the other hand, my boss is ENTJ, so we relate to each other fairly well. Most of the others on the team are ISTP (all but one), which means that most of us are introverts. Which, when you think about it, makes for an interesting team dynamic. Instead of hanging out together, or going out for lunches, and doing the things that E's do to make the work day more enjoyable, we're all running off alone as often as possible so we can recover from the stress of working an an aggressively "E" company, doing jobs that require us to be actively, productively engaged with other people most of the time.
No wonder I come home drained and the last thing I want to do is a detail-oriented chore like cooking. Or even feel eager to interact with my daughter. I just want some quiet and peace and the freedom to be expansive and abstract.
But I woke tired and don't want to go to work.
The fact that my gadget's calendar tells me I have a meeting with Miss V this morning does nothing to enhance my mood.
I didn't work on updating my resume for the training position over the weekend.
Last week at my team's offsite, we worked with our Myers-Brigg's profiles. I'm an INTJ: introverted, intuitive, thinking, judgmental. Which means: I recharge my energy by being alone; I rely more on intuition to process information than simply my five senses and prefer big-picture work rather than being down in the details; I make decisions more by logic and reason than by thinking about relationships and harmony; and I prefer my life to have order and planning rather than be spontaneous.
My day job is better suited for an Extroverted Sensor: someone energized by contact with other people, and who likes focusing on the details. My boss has ADD and is frequently changing plans -- thus requiring me to make a lot of last-minute schedule changes and needing new projects and priorities done before I finsih the previous ones (although, to his credit, he hasn't demanded unreasonable tasks or changes to my own schedule).
On the other hand, my boss is ENTJ, so we relate to each other fairly well. Most of the others on the team are ISTP (all but one), which means that most of us are introverts. Which, when you think about it, makes for an interesting team dynamic. Instead of hanging out together, or going out for lunches, and doing the things that E's do to make the work day more enjoyable, we're all running off alone as often as possible so we can recover from the stress of working an an aggressively "E" company, doing jobs that require us to be actively, productively engaged with other people most of the time.
No wonder I come home drained and the last thing I want to do is a detail-oriented chore like cooking. Or even feel eager to interact with my daughter. I just want some quiet and peace and the freedom to be expansive and abstract.
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Date: 2007-08-27 01:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-27 03:14 pm (UTC)I'm an I in a family of Es. Fortunately, everyone gets the 'space' thing finally, but having your work environment be that is incredibly draining. One of my biggest fears in re-entering the workforce is that I might be forced into an E role again (although I think the group with which I will work isn't that type of energy, thank the universe).
::hug::
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Date: 2007-08-28 01:20 am (UTC)As I just wrote to
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Date: 2007-08-29 03:12 pm (UTC)But, this is another good reason to pursue one's own desires and set out one's shingle! :>
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Date: 2007-08-30 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-27 05:07 pm (UTC)I see a tension peculiar to highly relational introverts. I haven't yet found written guidance on that issue, but the friends I know that live with it seem to shape their spiritual lives around that dynamic.
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Date: 2007-08-28 01:16 am (UTC)It is indeed a challenge when what we do is so much about other people.
For me, I think it's the quality of the one-on-one connections that makes the difference. I hate the unpredictable tide of people and requests throughout my day. I yearn for quality time with individuals. That time spent with others would nourish me.