My personality

As part of my internship, my supervisor is having me do some career exploration. I only have a vague idea of what I want to do after college. She suggested that I start at the college's career center: messiah.edu/offices/career/students. This led me to myplan.com, which has instruments, or tests, that analyze different things about a person. These instruments identify personality, interests, skills, and employment values. The site matched each set of results with compatible careers.

The personality instrument I used was the Myers-Briggs, which looks at personality. It measures four different areas of personality between two extremes. Most people are somewhere between the extremes, but tend to be dominant in one direction. My personality is ISFJ. This is what myplan.com says about my personality:

• Introverted: Inwardly directed emotional focus, concentrating more on their own thoughts and ideas than on external stimuli. Draw energy from within, comfortable being alone, at peace with themselves. Words that describe introverts: shy, reserved, thoughtful, quiet, interesting, complicated. The opposite of introverted is extroverted.

• Sensing: Keeps focused on practical matters, matter-of-fact approach to information gathering. Prefer experiencing things that are tactile and real, details are important. Words that describe sensors: patient, careful, precise, diligent, realistic. The opposite of sensing is intuitive.

• Feeling: Compassion and empathy are more important than analysis and logic. Guided by the heart, consider all points of view. Feelers are humanitarian, moral, and honorable. Words that describe feelers: caring, considerate, compassionate, emotional, subjective. The opposite of feeling is thinking.

• Judging: Judgers appreciate decisiveness, planning, punctuality, organization, and security. Words that describe judgers: decisive, sensible, resolute, prudent. The opposite of judging is perceiving. Most people exhibit characteristics of judging and perceiving in different areas of their lives.