Hi! Your description says you’re an architectural student, and I was wondering how hard it was for you to decide on one thing to pursue? I (also an enfp) have so many ideas and dreams but I’m struggling to decide on just one for a career (although I’m young and don’t have to worry about it yet but still.) Any tips for settling on one thing and feeling fulfilled? (Or maybe you’ve always known and this irrelevant...)
Architecture was never something I pursued intentionally when I was still in high school. I wanted to be an artist, or psychologist, or scientist.... i saw great possibilities in many directions, as you’re seeing now. I just ended up with it half accidentally.
Choices with career are like relationships: You pursue one of the many you like. Usually you choose the one you like the most, the one that has something extra on it. Then you start to build your knowledge, to understand better. There will also be times during studying and working shen you think if this was the right choice, and those questions should be taken seriously. Changing career is not the end of the world, but also sticking with it won’t make you feel like you would miss out on other stuff. It just has to feel meaningfull and fulfilling.
My suggestion to you, if you feel like you have many skills, is to choose a career path that has something you like to do, something you like as an idea and variety.
I like the idea of architecture, the symbolism around it, so as an ENFP it is easy to follow blogs that like the same symbolism. I like the aestethics.
By saying something you like to do, I mean that don’t only get boosted by the idea. If you like games alot, and feel like you would suit nerd coding environment, but know that you dislike coding and finding solutions and small mistakes from long lines of text, don’t choose that. Every career path will have things you dislike (mine are crazy deadlines) but you learn to live with them by focusing on the good.
Your trouble in choosing could be also turned into a good thing: interest in many things. Find some job with variety of skills. I like architecture, because I get to study building law, draw, meet customers, photoshop, take responsibility and see the end result in real life. Many careers have this - just think what would be variety you like!
And whatever you end up choosing, you’ll work it out! When you get bored, change your hobbies, ask your boss to give you little different jobs, whatever you feel would work! It is a good thing you take the choice seriously, but remember there is always ways out if you end up choosing wrong.
Thank you for this ask, hopefully this helped 🖤 all the best!