I promise, promise, promise that as soon as my contracts have reached the publisher and All Is Official, I will signal the simultaneous opening of virtual champagne across North America. Then we can all drink to me and my Cool New Career. Yay me.
In the meantime I’ll chew my fingernails yet again, hoping they get to where they need to be on time.
Maybe once all that’s over with I can think about NaNo.
Because I am highly amused by this:
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INFJ – “Author”. Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.
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Maybe I just hang out with author-types, but it’s same answer that Ceri scored on the test.
What I found interesting were these scores:
Doing a bit of research I discovered that INFJs (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging types) typically displat traits such as, or similar to, the following:
Intuitively understand people and situations
Idealistic
Highly principled
Complex and deep
Natural leaders
Sensitive and compassionate towards people
Service-oriented
Future-oriented
Value deep, authentic relationships
Reserved about expressing their true selves
Dislike dealing with details unless they enhance or promote their vision
Constantly seeking meaning and purpose in everything
Creative and visionary
Intense and tightly-wound
Can work logically and rationally – use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it
Apparently, [t]hey need to feel as if everything they do in their lives is in sync with their strong value systems – with what they believe to be right. Accordingly, the INFJ should choose a career in which they’re able to live their daily lives in accordance with their deeply-held principles, and which supports them in their life quest to be doing something meaningful. Hey, that sounds kind of familiar…
And what’s right at the top of the career list for INFJ-types? Clergy / Religious Work, directly followed by Teachers. A couple lower we find Alternative Health Care Practitioners, Counselors and Social Workers, and Musicians and Artists.
So nice to know I’m pursuing paths generally considered rewarding for my personality type. And yet… not so nice to be this predictable. (That’s probably an INFJ thing too, I’ll bet.)
INFJ is apparently the rarest personality type, coming in at a whopping 2% of the population. Read all about ’em here, and here too.
I was offered a place in a second orchestra last night. Nothing says “You’re more talented than you think you are” like someone else asking you to come in to support a weak cello section, let me tell you. Autumn to the rescue!
Interestingly enough, Cantabile was founded by my current LCO conductor, Douglas Knight, though it’s been led by Peter Willsher for a few years now. Go figure.
Cantabile is a choral group with a full orchestra. On November 15 in a Lachine they’re performing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Since this is rescue operation, I don’t know whether I’ll stay on full-time, especially as rehearsals overlap a bit with the class I teach on Sundays. However, for the three weeks until the concert, I can be flexible.
The odd part is that the choir is peppered with people I used to sing with about ten years ago. It’s going to be a bit awkward, I think. I’m a very different person, I use a different name, and, well, I’m not as mousy and tremblingly polite as I used to be. I probably still be polite, of course. It won’t be the same, though. Am I making sense? I’m a whole decade older; I like to think I’ll be comfortable enough to walk away and enjoy being by myself as opposed to empowering others by being a patronised audience.
In all likelihood l’m being very uncharitable, and they’ll all probably be delighted to see me. Besides, I’m focusing more on the fact that this is going to be an excellent test of my sight-reading; there are only three regular rehearsals before the concert, after all.