Posted by Lisa on October 24, 2000 at 23:43:07:
Who else here is both an N and a J on the MBTI? Do you find alot of conflicts between the two letters? Apparantly, S and J go well together and complement each other nicely and go do N and P but N and J? They seem quite contradictory.
A lot of the traits I thought were S may really be J. Unlike other INFJs I'm not as dreamy or as mystical. I'm not into poetry. I tend to prefer the literal over the figurative. In fact I find poetry difficult to get at times- I want people to just say things straight and to the point in the fewest words possible. But maybe that's not S but rather my impatient, get to the bottom line quickly J coming out. Alot of the SPs I know are quite poetic. But I do read alot of speculative sort of stuff including some philosophy and anything that talks about what life might be like many years from now.
I'm an agnostic. I was raised as a christian but now I can't see bothering to live under a philosophy that might not even be true anyway. I don't seem to take things on faith alone like a lot of NFs.
I want to do something creative. In other words, something that's not repetitive, something intellectually stimulating and where I'm responsible for my own scheduling rather than punch-in punch-out. But I don't think I could stand a totally creative job. I get skeptical when someone says "Just do whatever you want!" I do need some more structure than that. Teaching provides the balance. There are some times I definitely have to be there for class but I have alot of free periods as well and I can work odd hours and no one will care if I take an hour and a half long lunch break. I have some idea of what I have to tell my students but I have alot of leeway to add my own things too. But often it takes more extraversion than what I'm comfortable with.
So I think NJ feels the most tension between structure and the right way v.s. the creative, innovative way. And also type ones with alot of fourish traits and vice versa.
Lisa, Infj, 1w9 with 4, sensitive/serious