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Re^3: departing programming, what is the next best step?
by porqui (Acolyte) on Sep 01, 2004 at 21:00 UTC
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I agree.
In fact, I believe that the profile for a good programmer and a good paralegal are parallel. If I'm not mistaken, the preferred MBTI scores are the same. (Meyers Briggs Type Indicator) | [reply] |
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Sorry, but you seem to be mistaken. According to this chart, the personalities that go into programming are ISTP, ISTJ, INTP and INTJ. (The fact that the key attributes are IT is probably just coincidence...) The personalities that like being a paralegal are ISFJ, ISTP and ESTJ. So ISTPs could be attracted both to programming and paralegals, but most programmers likely would not like being a paralegal and vice versa.
But that personality test is not destiny. For instance I'm an ENTP. As the chart and my experience indicate, extroverts of any kind are rare in programming. But we do exist. (Incidentally I should note that extroverted geeks are truly sad creatures. We want to be social but are oh so incapable of doing it properly. As I can testify from experience, when random people look interested in dumps of technical information, it is from a sense of morbid fascination. It is similar to how people can't resist staring at car wrecks...)
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so Tilly -
I am an ENTP too. I want to hear what you think of programming, what you like about it. Cause I am getting bored with programming. I'm wondering if you also find debugging painfully boring. Or finishing up projects. Or perhaps not. I'm curious to find out what kind of programming job you have, you know, pick at another ENTP's brain a bit.
--rachel
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Hmm... From the link you gave I see under
INTJ "Computer Programmer... Attorney... Judge"
ISTJ "Engineer... Legal Secretary... Computer Operator... Computer Programmer... Technical Writer... Chief Information Officer"
ISFJ "Computer Operator... Paralegal..."
INFJ "Information-Graphics Designer... Lawyer... Interpreter/Translator"
ISTP; INFP; INTP; etc...
Just about everywhere I see a techie type profession, I also see a legal type profession.
I realize that personality typeing is not pre-destination, but I do see that it can help a person think about their own personality and give some structure to that thinking; as well as help them consider where they might fit as opposed to blind groping.
My own experience with geometry and programming have let me think that I too might enjoy hacking law, because I see the similarities: a set (albeit changing) of conditions and corrolaries (axioms/ programming language/ precedents), and a set of problems to apply them to (proof/ requirements/ case).
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