Hello Victorious INFJ! I am an INFP with a marketing and sales background who went through a similar experience as you, searching for "the perfect fit" business environment for more than a decade.
I've worked with large corporations, small companies, nonprofits, and freelance across many industries. My most rewarding experience was managing my own bookstore because I had the authority to set the (countercultural) values and standards.
I trained my sales staff to be collaborative by redirecting their natural competitiveness into interdependence. They had to work together to complete tasks efficiently and provide a great customer experience, so the most collaborative team-player automatically shined. I promoted her into the Assistant Manager position. Everyone blossomed even more under her supervision. When she first started, she was so insecure that she believed that she is an introvert - but she's an extrovert! The most introverted staff member completed her internship by organizing a community event in the store. The most competitive intern came in as a sarcastic know-it-all who mocked slower members and graduated to a helpful troubleshooter and trainer in a month! On and on...
After a few more zig-zag moves in my journey (education nonprofit program manager, marketing production manager for financial research firm, etc.), I moved on to full-time ministry (e.g., Sunday school education! Evangelism! Etc.). I definitely use everything that I have learned in the business world to help me understand what NOT to do when communicating the Good News to people.
The head of my official church ministry is a Product Marketing Manager. I understand how she thinks because of my marketing and sales background...and I know what it takes to bring out the best in her, so that she can lead us well.
说的不要放弃寻找你life purpose, calling, or best-fit environment! Everything that I experienced (all of the "random" jobs) wasn't actually random. It was all training for The Next Step in My Life Adventure. ;-)
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:3-8 NLT
Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.
Romans 8:28-30 NLT
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.
Jara (not verified)说……
Hello Victorious INFJ! I am an INFP with a marketing and sales background who went through a similar experience as you, searching for "the perfect fit" business environment for more than a decade.
I've worked with large corporations, small companies, nonprofits, and freelance across many industries. My most rewarding experience was managing my own bookstore because I had the authority to set the (countercultural) values and standards.
I trained my sales staff to be collaborative by redirecting their natural competitiveness into interdependence. They had to work together to complete tasks efficiently and provide a great customer experience, so the most collaborative team-player automatically shined. I promoted her into the Assistant Manager position. Everyone blossomed even more under her supervision. When she first started, she was so insecure that she believed that she is an introvert - but she's an extrovert! The most introverted staff member completed her internship by organizing a community event in the store. The most competitive intern came in as a sarcastic know-it-all who mocked slower members and graduated to a helpful troubleshooter and trainer in a month! On and on...
After a few more zig-zag moves in my journey (education nonprofit program manager, marketing production manager for financial research firm, etc.), I moved on to full-time ministry (e.g., Sunday school education! Evangelism! Etc.). I definitely use everything that I have learned in the business world to help me understand what NOT to do when communicating the Good News to people.
The head of my official church ministry is a Product Marketing Manager. I understand how she thinks because of my marketing and sales background...and I know what it takes to bring out the best in her, so that she can lead us well.
说的不要放弃寻找你life purpose, calling, or best-fit environment! Everything that I experienced (all of the "random" jobs) wasn't actually random. It was all training for The Next Step in My Life Adventure. ;-)
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:3-8 NLT
Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.
Romans 8:28-30 NLT
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.