Worstgen

I'm working in policy and strategy right now, which is a great job for an INTJ. I like the idea of planning, development and future-proofing new developments. When I tutor sometimes I launch into long explanations about social norms and human nature and how they are reflected in the texts, much to the students' dismay xD

Den_Den_Mushi

This is another more concise resource to see not just how you think, but other cognitive processes that you may clash with in others
cognitiveprocesses.com/16Types/INTJ.cfm

Light D Lamperouge

That sounds quite nice. Yeah going off-topic or in greater detail happens often to me as well. Analyzing literary works never bores me. There's so much to think about, and when you have the necessary background to connect it with, it becomes even better.

Nice. I'll read that one as well.

Den_Den_Mushi

It's funny because Luffy is ENFP and supposedly our types get along... but he really just annoys me tbh. I much prefer Zoro, an ISTP and Shanks, who is probably ENFJ. Analysing literature is fun for me, but only if I like the text. If you threw a random one at me and asked me to analyse it I'd probably not enjoy it very much. Do you want to get into academia for English?

Light D Lamperouge

Those would be the other things we have in common. I agree 100 percent with it. Both the preference, and the literature analysis.

I guess so. I'd enjoy doing such work. I love teaching, but at a high level lol.

Den_Den_Mushi

I don't think high school kids have the life experience or emotional maturity to appreciate a lot of high level literature. This isn't a knock against them but I think high school English curriculums are very age-inappropriate. School should be preparing you for life and higher education (ie moving on to studying harder texts) but it often fails on both accounts.

Den_Den_Mushi

I think you'd make a good teacher ^^ INTJs' extraverted thinking (Te) often makes them good at managing or instructing but being introverts they prefer to be autonomous rather than the head honcho. Maybe the head honcho's advisor unless the big boss is truly incompetent.

Light D Lamperouge

Most definitely. Actually, in a couple of weeks I have to go and teach in high schools, or worse, elementary schools, as a part of my curriculum. That would actually be my exam lol. I'll have to muster up all my patience.

Light D Lamperouge

Yeah, I think so. A bit of patience and I am all set lol.

Den_Den_Mushi

Oh god no. I had a student quit on me last week because I refused to spoon feed him the answers. I prefer to help guide students to the answer by asking them pointed questions and prodding their analysis along instead of straight up telling them what to do.

Den_Den_Mushi

I generally try to suppress my urges to correct or instruct people because it's seen as inappropriate and rude but boy howdy do I want to... all the time lol. What about you?

Light D Lamperouge

Unfortunately, yes. I feel you. I like doing the exact same thing. I'll just have to act it out in order to pass lol.

Light D Lamperouge

I try to do that as well. I've learned that people don't enjoy being corrected, even though most of the time I don't have a hidden agenda or a bad intention behind that. Sometimes it just slips out lol.

Den_Den_Mushi

Good luck with that lol, I'm sure you'll like uni teaching a lot more. At least in uni, most people are there because they want to be, not because the state forced 12 years of education on them lol. Especially in niche majors like English or Japanese, most students are very serious about it.

Light D Lamperouge

Thank you. Yeah, that's the best part. After a lot of time, you actually have the chance to talk to someone about the stuff you like and they can actually understand and respond to you lol. People are there to learn more about it, not just waste time because someone forced them too, at least in most cases.

Den_Den_Mushi

I enjoyed my Japanese course a lot more than my law degree mostly because it felt like the class was genuinely engaged and interested in the material. A lot of people do law just for the money or status and I didn't enjoy law either way. It was a stifling subject without much room for creativity or innovation. What about you, how do you find English?

Light D Lamperouge

Yeah, law is one of those subject where you just have to study a lot imo, there isn't a lot of room for creativity or innovation like you said. I love it. I've been speaking English since I was 4 years old, I've learned it by watching cartoons on TV lol. I am not in it for the money, but for the love of it. The literature is amazing. I prefer reading books in English rather than in my native language. I find myself

Light D Lamperouge

being able to express myself better and with a richer vocabulary by using English. I usually tone it down, like on forums, or places where not a lot of people might understand all the words, and use basic words instead.

Den_Den_Mushi

That's really cool, your vocabulary and grammar is probably better than 99% of my students lol. I can't say I have a great vocabulary myself but it's definitely beneficial to read widely and analyse classic works. It's refreshing to meet people who aren't constrained by society's ideas of what's valuable.

Den_Den_Mushi

I mean it's become cool to shit on humanities and cultural subjects right now but in my experience humanities and literary grads have great analytical and expressive skills that employers value. It's a shallow worldview to value subjects by how lucrative they are anyway.