Hey Dan here and in this video I'm gonna answer two different questions about
ENFPs and building a business or career that's really well suited for you. So the
first one was a comment on one of my other videos about a good careers for
ENFPs and it was what is a good career within these guidelines that has to do
mainly with travel I can't seem to figure it out and so question is
basically how do you work within travel and what I would ask you is do you want
to work about travel or do you want to travel because there are many travel
agents sitting in a flight center somewhere Travel Agency right that
haven't been across you know to another country in a couple years they just
basically are working in an office helping other people travel now of
course if you are a travel agent you get more perks it's going to be a little
better than not being one but it doesn't necessarily mean you'll have a lot of
travel so that would be my first question is if you really just want to
travel but not necessarily be in the industry then I would look at something
like what I teach about freelancing building your own business where you can
work from anywhere something like that because you don't have to be related to
travel to actually be able to travel right it's more about just setting up
your business or your career in a way that gives you that freedom now if you
want to live abroad for maybe three months or six months at a time there's a
lot of different things you could do I always thought being a tour guide would
be a lot of fun I've even thought of doing it in different cities I've lived
in just for kind of entertainments sake where like you get to come up with like
a one or two hour tour and tell all these stories and meet new people every
day I think that would be very cool and it would be something in ENFP would be
great at because you would be connecting with people you'd be entertaining them
you'd be telling stories using your communication skills and of course as a
tour guide you can probably have a crappy job where you don't earn much
money but you could also be earning a lot of money I'm sure doing it as a
business charging people a good rate because you have the best tour in the
city that sort of thing as well what else can
you do within travel I think something around like a travel assistant could be
very interesting this is something that I've thought about trying to find
someone to hire it's a bit of a unique job I'm sure but you have a couple
options if you're someone like me trying to book travel you can go to a travel
agency where they are a bit bias because they get commissions from different
people and they're more looking at where they're going to earn their commission
to some extent and generally people who use travel agencies most of them are
doing sort of cookie cutter tours like I want to go to Mexico for two weeks or
something like that so if you're looking for a really like interesting creative
trip they're probably not going to be great for you and the other option is
like concierge services like my credit card has a travel concierge where
they'll book things for you but they're more like a credit like a travel agency
where they're just like okay I'll look up a hotel and book your hotel that sort
of thing I've never been able to find a service that offers this kind of
creative like travel planning that I would do for myself like piecing
together multiple flights finding really creative ways to have like a two-day
layover and mixing up different kinds of housing like sometimes I'll stay in a
four or five-star hotel and sometimes I'll stay in an Airbnb or in a hostel
depending on what I feel like for that trip that could be a very cool service
the other thing I would look at is careers that you would generally want to
do that happen to involve a lot of travel
now unfortunately with videoconferencing and basically free long distance now
there's less and less careers where you do just travel for your work 30 40 years
ago it was very standard right if you live in Canada and you had a client in
Japan or Germany you would fly there for meeting at least once or twice a year
and you've got all this free travel that happens less and less now because people
our companies are looking to save money right and just do videoconferencing and
that sort of thing but it still does happen so looking at a career like let's
say you wanted to be a trainer like a group training for companies or organize
workshops or things like that you could do that in a way where you
work for an organization that sent you all over the world
visit their different clients or that sort of thing so there's two ways to do
this one is just do something really travel related like I said a tour guide
or like a kind of travel planner person or the other is just find a normal job
that happens to have a lot of travel built into it of course doing your own
thing and having that freedom is usually what I would recommend is my number one
option as well the second question is as an ENFP how did you finally find
something to focus on I end up doing different jobs because I can never stick
to a business idea good question so it's going to take you some time that's my
short answer as an ENFP you'll likely want to change direction sometimes and
that's okay but what I would recommend the way to do it strategically is
whatever job you get or whatever business you start try to build skills
that you can use in the next thing right so for instance I worked as a freelance
copywriter for many years and I really enjoyed that it was closer to what I was
meant to do with my life than what I did before what one of the things I was
doing before was as a mortgage planner and that had some elements I liked I
learned how to sell I learned how to do presentations so I built skills but I
realized it wasn't for me and then as a copywriter I got closer to what I
enjoyed doing I was using my creative abilities projects were challenging I
got to work with entrepreneurs but it wasn't quite the right fit for me so I
then continued on right but in that I built the copywriting ability and
copywriting is writing to market or to sell which is a very valuable skill for
any kind of business owner so each of these different things I did I learned
what I didn't like I learned about things I did enjoy and I built the skill
and that's what I would really encourage you to do so let's say you look over ten
years I don't know how old you are now but look at someone who is 23 right say
they're going to have five jobs before they're 33 where they change every
roughly two years which is more and more common
now in each of those jobs you your next job should be closer to what you want to
be doing with your life like your life's work and you should be developing a
skill so over ten years you will have developed five really strong maybe
skills maybe ten maybe you're learning different things in each business right
more than one skill I would probably hope and each time you're getting closer
and closer to what you're meant to be doing your life's work
now you might stumble upon your life's work you know on your first career or
your second career choice right and doing things like personality tests and
personal development working with coaches all this stuff can help
accelerate that but the big thing I would leave you with is whatever you are
doing make sure you're developing skills you can use elsewhere and make sure that
you're doing something like whenever you do a job or start a business if it
doesn't work look at what you liked about it and what you didn't like about
it and then make sure to apply that to the next thing you're doing so you don't
repeat your same mistakes so that you're getting closer and closer to your target
each time now I'm sure if you're watching this as an ENFP you have your
own comments to share your own answers to these questions so I encourage you to
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to the channel I do lots of videos on personality type on careers on
entrepreneurship and all kinds of other good stuff and I'll catch you in the
next video thanks for watching
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