Careers for INTP Personality Types

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world, or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits which will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's equally important to understand what is really important to you. When armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to pick a career which you will find rewarding.

INTPs generally have the following traits:

Love theory and abstract ideas

Truth Seekers - they want to understand things by analyzing underlying principles and structures

Value knowledge and competence above all else

Have very high standards for performance, which they apply to themselves

Independent and original, possibly eccentric

Work best alone, and value autonomy

Have no desire to lead or follow

Dislike mundane detail

Not particularly interested in the practical application of their work

Creative and insightful

Future-oriented

Usually brilliant and ingenius

Trust their own insights and opinions above others

Live primarily inside their own minds, and may appear to be detached and uninvolved with other people

INTPs have a special gift with generating and analyzing theories and possibilities to prove or disprove them. They have a great deal of insight and are creative thinkers, which allows them to quickly grasp complex abstract thoughts. They also have exceptional logical and rational reasoning skills, which allows them to thoroughly analyze theories to discover the Truth about them. Since the INTP is driven to seek clarity in the world, we have a happy match of desire and ability in this personality type. INTPs will be happiest in careers which allow them a great deal of autonomy in which they can work primarily alone on developing and analyzing complex theories and abstractions, with the goal of their work being the discovery of a truth, rather than the discovery of a practical application.

The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an INTP. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed.

Possible Career Paths for the INTP:

   Scientists - especially Physics, Chemistry

   Photographers

   Strategic Planners

   Mathematicians

   University Professors

   Computer Programmers or Systems Analysts

   Technical Writers

   Engineers

   Lawyers / Attorneys

   Judges

   Forensic Research

   Forestry and Park Rangers

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