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-4 (Romantic Individual) 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-4 (Romantic Individual): You seek and find the beauty in any emotion, and make it come to life. By combining complex ideas and concepts, you are able to creatively express yourself in artistic ventures like writing, artistry, or performing. By reading in-between the lines, new doors are opened; new horizons are granted; new perspectives are brought to light.
With your hidden talents, you:
- Transform past pains into beautiful art
- Resist peer pressure and trends
- Take a stand for your beliefs
- Share deep insights and feelings with the world
- See the connections between the past and the future
- Explore what it means to be fully alive and thriving
Type-4’s are often found in positions that allow for creativity and self-expression, with some flexibility to work on their own timeline.
- Creative Performers: Fours are particularly interested in developing their own creative expression through creative professions, such as actors, artists, musicians, and dancers.
- Writers and Researchers: Fours with talent in writing, or intellectual pursuits, bring polish, creativity, and self-motivation as copywriters, novelists and memoir writers, curriculum developers, researchers, and journalists.
- Designers: Fours can bring their orientation to depth and beauty as website and graphic designers, animators, fashion designers, interior decorators, or landscapers.
- Marketing and Recruiting: Often, Fours do wonderful work in the marketing or staff recruitment departments in businesses, as they add their creativity to sales, and are often highly personally attuned to who will fit a particular corporate role.
- Entrepreneurs: Although Fours succeed in traditional corporate positions, many prefer the creative flexibility and independence that comes from freelancing, consulting, founding a business, or combining part-time positions.
- Directors and Managers: Fours bring sensitivity and caring to managing others in business, and a personal touch to leadership positions. Often, but not always, they direct creatively oriented businesses.
- Teachers: Fours make attentive and caring teachers of all age groups, and are particularly seen teaching creative professions in which they excel.
- Therapeutic Professionals: The ability to listen attentively to others’ personal stories and a desire to support others in working through their feelings make Fours excellent therapists and coaches.
- Healing Practitioners: Fours are seen in many healing roles, including traditional medical professions (to which they may bring a holistic approach), instructing yoga, and self-created healing roles that combine modalities.
- Humanitarian Work and Activism: Strong feelings often make Fours passionate about causes. They can be seen working in various roles in nonprofits, social justice, activism, and other forms of personal support for what they believe in.
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.