In order to achieve success and fulfilment, it is essential that your professional life/career aligns with your authentic self, leveraging the strengths and talents you naturally possess.
This article helps Enneagram Type-9 (Peaceful Mediator) personality to discover their unique hidden talents and forge the career path(s) that best suits their personality.
If you chose one of the below career paths, you have very high chances to excel (vs just perform) in your profession with a good sense of fulfilment. You would outperform others by unleashing your natural hidden potential/strengths.
This does not mean that you cannot or should not take up any other careers which are not listed below. You could ‘perform’ in any career that you take up and reach a level of success, but you might not have the job fulfilment and might not be able to unleash your natural hidden talents/potential.
Of course, we also need to consider other factors like the current market demand, growth path and the pay scale for different career paths.
But the career paths based on the personality is a starting point and gives us a GPS to navigate our career paths through our life.
Enneagram Type-9 (Peaceful Mediator): Peacemaking is one of your greatest strengths. You are able to see all sides of an issue and acknowledge the points of view of each individual. By keeping your zen in check and opening your ears to suggestions, you can restore relationships and strengthen the glue that holds a group or organization together.
With your hidden talents, you:
- Diffuse conflict with finesse
- See alternative perspectives to an issue
- Radiate compassion and high emotional intelligence
- Have a gentle influence upon others
- Repair broken or strained relationships
- Listen and offer sound advice
Type-9’s Often, Nines succeed in long-range, strategic work where they are able to create change in a slow, careful manner. Other Nines enjoy working in occupations where they create a sense of harmony and peace for those around them.
- Leadership Positions: Nines are so likeable that they often find themselves promoted to leadership positions in many industries: traditional business, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, etc. They excel in established institutions that need a consistent, steady, and slower-paced form of leadership.
- Historians and Scientists: Working as a historian, scientist, or in other academic and research-oriented fields allows Nines to create unified, holistic theories and observations—observations that require a deep understanding of how the past impacts the present. They are also patient teachers in their areas of strength.
- Financial Positions: Many Nines can be seen in various banking and other finance-related positions—positions that involve a conservative, long-range vantage point to make careful and important decisions. They can also make excellent business analysts.
- Community Organizer: An ability to bring others together, combined with patience and long-term strategizing skills, allows Nines to develop relationships and long-range planning that create change where it is needed.
- Creative and Technical Professions: Nines who are creatively or technically inclined have the patience and dedication needed to excel in art, music, web or graphic design, app development, writing, and other creative endeavours.
- Outdoor Occupations: Many Nines feel very connected to nature. They use their strengths in long-term planning to excel in agricultural fields, as park rangers, landscapers, and even construction workers.
- Legal Mediator: As mediators, Nines ensure that conflicts are resolved and harmony is maintained in difficult legal disputes. Nines can also be seen in other positions in the legal system.
- Managers: Nines are gentle and caring managers who tend to be popular with their employees. In managerial roles, they ensure conflict is minimized and harmony is maintained in the office.
- Therapists: It is particularly common to see Nines working as family therapists or couples’ counselors—professions where they help create and maintain harmonious relationships. Nines also are patient, caring individual psychologists and therapists.
- Early Childhood Professionals: With seemingly endless patience, some Nines get great enjoyment out of helping young children grow. Nines can be drawn to working with young kids as educators, childcare workers, therapists, or pediatricians.
- Animal Professionals: Nines can feel an intuitive connection to animals, and may be drawn to working as veterinarians or animal trainers, or at zoos or in outdoor professions with nearby wildlife.
- Athletic Professions: Like Eights, Nines often feel connected to their bodies. They can be excellent athletes, often in individual sports. Their athletic knowledge and caring also lead them to be sports medicine doctors, physical therapists, and others who care for athletes.
Feel free to connect with me if you want a guided self-discovery of Enneagram typing session to know your type. This would be 100% accurate. This would help you to choose the most fulfilling career paths and to unleash your potential.