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From
Conversations with
Planner Inspectors
The following
is adapted from Linda V. Berens and Dario
Nardi, The
16 Personality Types: Descriptions for
Self-Discovery (Telos Publications,
1999) *Used with permission.
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I think for the most part I try to make
my life pretty structured, and one thing
that other people can depend on is that
I have a very strong sense of duty.
I’m
a team player but I work best with some
time alone. I like it when everything
is laid out and I can just concentrate
on doing the job. I hate it when I don’t
know where I am going, and I like feedback
so I know I’m on the right track.
If part of the job entails ambiguity,
that’s fine just as long as the goal
is to reduce ambiguity. I like being financially
secure with the bills paid on time so
my family can enjoy the things that we
like to do. I like to have a fallback
plan. I do like to laugh and have fun
too, but work is more important to me,
and then I make my little jokes. I always
think I have to get my work done before
I can go out or go home, when I can just
sit down and relax without anything hanging
over my head. I take responsibility seriously,
and if I’m going to put my name on
something, my desire is to insure it’s
as good as it can be.
A
sense of right and wrong is extremely
important, and I will not just stand by
and watch people doing things wrong. It
really tears me apart. I tend to want
things in order and people doing the right
things. I want to have some rules. I always
wanted to please people, and a safe environment
to me is where I don’t have to compete
with anyone else’s wishes. If I get
into a situation where I feel very strongly
and can’t articulate the words or
can’t win, I just don’t say
anything. I tend to put up with conflict
rather than deal with it. I try to deal
with stress, but I am not necessarily
a good confronter. I would like to be
more of a stress avoider.
I
find myself duty bound sometimes and find
that I do things because of what’s
expected of me. People can trust and count
on me, and I am very dependable, almost
to a fault. I strive to keep balance between
work and home, and if I’m going to
provide for my family I’m going to
have to swallow some things at work. When
I see families that really want to be
together, that’s a relationship that
those people worked at for many years
to achieve. Being a friend means caring
enough about an individual to call them
to see how they are doing, and if I can
see someone has held true to their word,
then they’ve probably gained my trust.
If you were to ask me to define the word
love, you would get responses like caring,
responsibility, and loyalty.
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am a very private person and I don’t
like a lot of attention. Although I enjoy
being with people, observing them, and
just being a part of the group, I really
like some solitude. People who don’t
know me perceive me as pretty formal and
rigid, and then I’ll get out of character
and people don’t know how to deal
with that. They misinterpret my subtle
sense of humor. I do have some ability
to improvise every once in a while. I
take a lot of pleasure in the simple things.
With
a problem, I will try to look at all the
parts and line them up to insure I don’t
miss something. I have to force myself
to look at the big picture and solve it
before I can say, “Yes, this is going
to work.” I’m not the idea person,
but if I have experience I will give my
opinion about how I think it should be
done. If it’s new, I am very much
apt to sit back and take it all in and
sit on it and think about it. I try to
catch myself, but it’s so unnatural
for me to see the good side of things,
and turning around my perspective takes
a lot out of me. I want a rock-solid case
for why I feel the way I do. A lot of
my ideas are very practical, not theoretical—the
down-to-earth stuff people really need
to know. Sometimes when people don’t
see my point, I tend to withdraw or stand
back.
I
can’t stand people who don’t
care for others, who are irresponsible
or rude, who shoot their mouth off without
knowing what they are talking about or
who don’t do what they are supposed
to do and want something for nothing.
I especially can’t tolerate people
who don’t take other people’s
time or privacy into consideration.
I
get up in the morning and do my routine.
And I take time at the end of each day
to try to plan what’s happening the
next day, what I’m going to be working
on first, second, third, and so on through
out the day, to eliminate the unexpected.
Sometimes I might carry a book or something
in case I have to wait somewhere. That
makes life easy and full. Stability is
important to me and change may not be
that easy, but variety is good too. I
seek advice when I need to change.
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Search & Apply to New Jobs The
following is adapted
from Linda V. Berens and Dario Nardi,
The
16 Personality Types: Descriptions for
Self-Discovery (Telos Publications,
1999) *Used with permission.
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