6 Ways To Find The Right Career That Matches Your Temperament.

Finding The Right Career That Suits Your Temperament:

It’s bad enough to be without a job because apart from being financially bankrupt, you also lack the opportunity to be productive or work productively. But even worse than being without a job, is to find oneself in a job that makes one unproductive, which leaves us unfulfilled and dissatisfied. It is extremely frustrating to be in such careers or jobs. There is nothing as gratifying and invigorating as having a job that make you work productively, and you don’t have to be mechanical about doing your job. Little wonder so many persons have to change their Job countless times because they are not getting that desired satisfaction and fulfilment from their current job. But just changing jobs or perhaps moving from one job to another cannot guarantee you that fulfilment and satisfaction, until you are able to discover the secret of finding the right job that suits your personality.

It’s basically for this reason that in today’s post, we want to look at six ways of finding the right career that matched your primary or predominant temperament. The right job or career for you, that makes you work productively and also guarantees you that satisfaction and fulfilment, is one that suits or matches your personality. Any job that falls short of this, will make you to struggle and become mechanical with the job. It is for this reason I will recommend you order and read do what you are to know why it’s important to choose a career that matched your temperament or personality. Here are my 6 ways to find the right career that suits or matches your temperament.

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6 Ways To Find The Right Job That Suits Your Personality:

1. Know Your Temperament:

You cannot find the right career that suits or matches your personality, subsequently gives you the expected satisfaction, unless you know and understand who you are. The sum total of who you are, or the real you is embedded in your personality, and which also no doubt emanates from your inherited temperament. However you act or behave, even how you do your job, the type of attitude you bring to bare on it, be it positive or negative, all can be traced to the temperament you’re born with. If you are so conversant with the temperaments, by just watching how someone behaves or acts, and their attitude to things, you can of course easily tell correctly the careers that they’ll be best suited for. The temperament we’re born with rarely changes, it follows us all through life. Although parenting and parental upbringing, education, societal or environmental influences or other factors may try to tweak it a bit, but it really does not change it. As we will often knowingly or unknowingly continue to yield to some of its influences on us.

It’s basically for this reason that you need to be aware of the temperament you are born with, and its influence on you. It will help you to understand your personality, and why you act and behave, or do some of the things you do. It will no doubt also help you to be your real self, live according to your personality, without being so much hard on, or critical of yourself. Knowing who you are, simply means understanding your personality. That is, how you function or operate as an individual. You’ve got to understand the fact that you’re different from the other person, not really in terms of physical looks per say, but in capabilities and deficiencies, and also in terms of your strengths and weaknesses. You definitely need to realize that there are some things that you can naturally do better than the other person, and there are others you will most likely often struggle with, and which the next person will be better at. It could also be things you are so much passionate about, that often arouses your interest, but could also be irritating to the other person. These diversities in our traits, interests and how we do things, makes everyone unique as individuals.

Consequently, this uniqueness is naturally embedded in our inherited temperaments. Thus, since our temperament determines our personality, and Influences everything we do in life. It is therefore necessary that we are aware of the temperament we are born with, so we could be able to function optimally to the best of our ability in any career field we find ourselves. It’s for this reason that knowing your temperament is the first step to finding or discovering the right career that matches your personality. I’ll recommend you read understand your temperament by Gilbert Childs.

2. Understand And Analyze Your Temperament Strengths and Weaknesses:

The four basic temperament categories of Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholics, and Phlegmatic have got inherent weaknesses and strengths. And it’s these strengths and weaknesses that will enable you to figure out some of the best career fields you can function optimally, and also be a guide to finding the right job or career that matches your temperament strengths, so that you’ll be able to function very effectively in that job or career. The strengths and qualities of a predominant sanguine person will often endear him to some careers, and no doubt enable him to function effectively in them, while such careers could irritate a predominant melancholic and he will fail woefully in them. But the typical sanguine weakness will rarely allow him to succeed in some careers that a typical melancholic person will be very successful in.

For instance, it will be very difficult for a predominant sanguine person to become a medical doctor, and succeed in the medical profession. Because he lacks that discipline and concentration to go through the rigour of medical school, neither does he have the meticulousness to practice the profession. While a predominant melancholic or even phlegmatic will do very well as a medical doctor, because they’ve got that discipline to go through medical school, and also the carefulness, detailed and analytical skills to succeed in the career. However, they’ll most likely fail in career like salesmanship and marketing, because they lack charisma and liveliness plus people-oriented quality to convince anyone to pander to what they are marketing or selling, which is basically where the core strengths of a predominant sanguine is domicile.

It’s more often for this reason that so many persons decides to abandon whatever they had studied in college or university and go into, or focus on other formal or informal career fields in life. While those who often decides to stick with careers that are not relevant to their temperament strengths are rarely productive or successful in them and sometimes, they lament for all of their years in such careers, because they aren’t getting that fulfilment and satisfaction they desire. It’s basically for this reason that you have got to choose a career path that is in agreement with your basic and secondary temperament strengths, where you will be able to function to the best of your ability.

And one of the way you can be sure that you are on the right career path that is relevant to your temperament strengths, is to first, know your temperament. Secondly, you’ve got to understand and analyze the strength and weaknesses that are inherent in your temperament. You may have to list them, to enable you figure out some of the careers that will match your strengths, and those that your weaknesses may hinder or prevent you from performing effectively in them. Pages 31 and 127 to 137 of why you act the way you do written by Tim Lahaye will show you strengths and weaknesses of the four temperament categories. Order it now to get yourself acquainted with them.

3. Make A List Of All The Careers You’d Like To Go Into:

After identifying all the weaknesses and strengths inherent in your temperament, and perhaps had list them down. The next thing you’ve got to do, is to make a list of all the careers you’d want to go into, whether they’re in the formal or informal sector. As a teenager who may be planning to go into high school for the first time, this is not just important, but it’s also very reassuring that you know what you want. Even as a high school leaver, college graduate or an adult who may probably be confused about the right career path to take in life, listing all the careers you’d love to venture into is very necessary to enable you effortlessly figure out which career path that’ll be best suitable for you. It’s possible that we could make a list of all these careers, based on our selfish desire, how big they sound, or how financially rewarding they may be. But don’t worry, just list them. Very soon you’ll discover if they’re the best for your personality or not.

4. Know What It Requires To Undergo The Trainings In Those Careers And Be Successful In Them:

Different careers often requires different training methodologies that are specific to them. The trainings required to produce a medical doctor cannot be the same as that required to produce a lawyer, eventhough both of them are required to go through the same formal education. For medicine and surgery is pure science, while the law profession is basically art related. Similarly to become a professional footballer, the trainings you’d go through will be different from that of a professional tennis, golf or baseball player, though they’re all in the same sports category. Every career has got specific training methodologies that are no doubt peculiar to them. And unless you go through the right training, you definitely cannot become a professional in that field.

It’s basically for this reason that you need to know what it requires to successfully go through the training in those careers you have listed, in order to become very good and efficient in them. For all formal career, going to college or university, and getting a degree will be very necessary. While for the informal careers, acquiring the basic requisite skills may just be enough to help you succeed. But prior to getting a college or university degree, or deciding on getting an informal skill, you definitely need to do little introspection into your basic natural temperament strengths and weaknesses, in order to choose the right career that match your temperament strengths and discard the ones that will impede your success in them as a result of the weaknesses in your temperament.

For instance a predominant sanguine lacks self- discipline and focus, thus, there are some careers that requires these natural qualities for you to be successful in them. Similarly, melancholic and phlegmatic lack charisma and liveliness, thus they may find it difficult succeeding in careers that these qualities are needed. While for the typical choleric personality, he lacks empathy and humanitarianism, and like his sanguine counterpart, hates too much details and analysis, therefore, will definitely find it hard succeeding in careers that requires these qualities to be successful in them. It’s for this reason that before enrolling for a particular training or course to acquire a skill or perhaps obtain a degree you’ve got to analyze your temperament strengths to know if you’ve got the requisite strengths or qualities that’ll enable you succeed in that career.

5. Consider Your Secondary Temperament:

Much as we make emphasis on our basic or predominant temperament, it is also very important that we are aware of our second temperament and give consideration to it. Everyone has got a blend of two or more temperaments, which we of course refer to as the temperament blends. It is very rare for anyone to be completely or 💯 percent sanguine, choleric, melancholic or maybe phlegmatic without blending it with any other temperament. But there’s always one which predominates the rest, because its blend ratio or blend percentage is higher in amount compared to others. And this is basically what we refer to as our primary or predominant temperament, while the others are our secondary temperament. For instance, someone could be 70 percent sanguine and 30 percent phlegmatic. For this person, he’ll possess more strengths or qualities of a sanguine, and less of a typical phlegmatic. Consequently he’ll also more often be influenced by his predominant sanguine temperament, and occasionally behave like a phlegmatic.

Knowing your secondary temperament is as important as knowing your primary or predominant temperament. Because it will enable you to have different career choices and diversify into other careers that are relevant to your primary and secondary temperament strengths. You could discover that the natural strengths and qualities of your predominant temperament may not be sufficient for you to go into a particular career and be successful in it but when you check your secondary temperament, you’d discover that those strengths and qualities are within it, and are naturally blended to help you succeed in that career, especially if the blend ratio is, 60:40 or maybe 55:45.

Temperament blend enables us to function effectively in different career fields, areas or departments. For instance, predominant sanguine may not have self-discipline, but if his second temperament is melancholic, he’ll be a bit more disciplined. Similarly, a melancholic may be low in confidence or has got poor self-esteem, but if perhaps his secondary temperament is say, choleric or sanguine in substantial amount, he will be a bit more confident and charismatic. This is how our temperament blend shapes our personality and impacts us in different areas of life.

Therefore, you need to give equal amount of consideration and attention to your secondary temperament like you often do to your primary temperament, and also consider its strengths and qualities when trying to choose a career path in life. This is so that you’ll have more career options, and also maximize the strengths inherent in both temperaments.

6. Match Your Temperament Strengths To The Careers You’ve Listed:

If you had figured out the natural strengths and qualities associated with your primary and secondary temperament, then it’s time to do the practical task of matching these strengths and qualities with the relevant careers that you had listed, to see the ones that matched at least, 80 percent of your strengths. In some careers you may have a blend of both your primary and secondary temperament strengths, perhaps in ratio of 70:30, 60:40 or 55:45 to help you make the right career choice. For instance, if you like to go into the sales and marketing career, your primary temperament ought to be sanguine or choleric, because these two temperaments have got the expressiveness, charisma, word-of-mouth and also people- oriented qualities to succeed in this career.

But a melsan temperament blend of 60:40 could also succeed in sales and marketing career eventhough his first temperament is melancholic. But because of the secondary sanguine temperament, he will most likely succeed in it. Similarly, a career such as accounting will bore a typical sanguine or choleric, because it requires attention to details, record keeping and dealing with so much figures, or calculations, which these temperament lacks. But if they were say, a sanphleg or cholphleg maybe of 60:40 or 55:45 blend ratio, they will do better in the accounting career, since they’ve also got phlegmatic as the secondary temperament.

Every career has specific strengths that are relevant to it. And these strengths are often embedded in our inherited temperaments or blends of it. When you’ve known your temperament and perhaps temperament blends, with its inherent weaknesses and strengths. Understand the strengths and qualities it takes to succeed in different career fields, then match each of them to careers you have listed. If you can get five out of seven, or six out of eight strengths that are relevant to succeed in a particular career, then you’ve discovered your career path in life.

It’s also possible that you could get 3 or 4 strengths from your basic or predominant temperament, and another 3 from your secondary, strengths of the two different temperaments will also combine to enable you succeed in some careers that you may find it very difficult succeeding in, if you’ve got just one type of temperament type. But rarely does anyone have just one type of temperament, it’s often a blend of two or more. And this is why you must know and understand both your predominant and secondary temperaments with their innate strengths and weaknesses. Pages 31, and 127 to 137 of why you act the way you do will show you some of the strengths and weaknesses of the four temperament types. Order it now.

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