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Duty Fulfiller (ISTJ)

People with ISTJ preferences are extremely dependable and have a complete, realistic, and practical respect for the facts. They absorb, remember, and use any number of facts and are careful about their accuracy. When they see that something needs to be done, they accept the responsibility, often beyond the call of duty They like everything clearly stated.

Their private reactions, which seldom show in their faces, are often vivid and intense. Even when dealing with a crisis they look calm and composed. Not until you know them very well do you discover. that behind their outer calm they are viewing the situation from an intensely individual angle. When ISTJs are "on duty" and dealing with the world, however, their behaviour is sound and sensible.

ISTJs are thorough, painstaking, systematic, hard-working, and careful with particulars and procedures. Their perseverance tends to stabilise everything with which they are connected. They do not enter into things impulsively, but once committed, they are very hard to distract or discourage.

ISTJs often choose careers where their talents for organisation and accuracy are rewarded. Examples are accounting, civil engineering, law, production, construction, health careers, and office work. They often move into supervisory and management roles.

If they are in charge of something, their practical judgment and valuing of procedure makes them consistent and conservative, assembling the necessary facts to support their evaluations and decisions. They look for solutions to present problems in the successes of the past. With time they become masters of even the smallest elements of their work, but don’t give themselves any special credit for this knowledge.

They may encounter problems if they expect everyone to be as logical and analytical as they are. They then run the danger of inappropriately passing judgment on others or overriding less forceful people. A useful rule is for them to use their thinking to make decisions about inanimate objects or their own behavior, and to use their perception to understand others. If they use their senses to see what really matters to others, so that it becomes a fact to be respected, they may go to generous lengths to help.

Another problem may arise if the ISTJ’s thinking remains undeveloped. They may retreat, becoming absorbed with their inner reactions to sense-impressions, with nothing of value being produced. They may also tend to be somewhat suspicious of imagination and intuition, and not take it seriously enough.

How Common Is This Type?

12% of the general population
16% of men
7% of women

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Introverted Sensing with Thinking

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Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter-of-fact, logical, realistic, and dependable. See to it that everything is well organized. Take responsibility. Make up their own minds as to what should be accomplish and work toward it steadily, regardless of protests or distractions.

Career Paths

Value tradition, security, and peaceful living
Will work long and hard to fulfill duties
Can be depended on to follow through on tasks
Loyal and faithful
Stable, practical and down-to-earth
Family-minded
Dislike doing things that don`t make sense to them
Dislike abstract theory, unless they see the practical application
Natural leaders
Prefer to work alone, but work well in teams when necessary
Extremely observant, they take in facts via their senses and store them internally
Vast, rich inner store of facts that they rely on to understand problems that they encounter in their lives
Profound respect for facts and concrete information
Make decisions objectively, applying logic and rational thinking
Dislike change, unless they are shown it`s benefit in a concrete way
Have strong opinions about the way things should be done
Appreciate structured, orderly environments
Have very high standards for their own behavior and the behavior of others
Not naturally in-tune with other people`s feelings
Able to accomplish almost anything if they put their minds to it
Community minded "good citizens"

ISTJs have one character trait that puts them at a definite advantage in terms of career success - Perserverance. An ISTJ can do almost anything that they have decided to do. However, there are areas in which they will function more happily and naturally. An ISTJ will do best in a career in which they can use their excellent organizational skills and their powers of concentration to create order and structure. ISTJs seem to fit extremely well into the Management and Executive layer of the corporate business world.

The following list of professions is built on our impression of careers that would be especially suitable for an ISTJ.

Recommended Career Paths for ISTJs are:

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Actuary
Budget Analyst
Accountant
Chief Information Officer
Office Manager
Efficiency Analyst
Stockbroker
Estate Planner
Property Manager
Real Estate Appraiser
Bank Teller
Statistician
Economist
Cost Estimator
Airplane Pilot
Computer Programmer
Database Administrator
Electrician
Environmental Engineer
Mechanic
Flight Engineer
Civil Engineer
Nuclear Engineer
Health & Safety Engineer
Power Plant Operator
Compliance Inspector
Geologist
Landscaping Manager
Farmer or Rancher
Technical Instructor
School Administrator
Criminalist
Police Officer
Dentist
Pharmacist
Surgeon
Coroner
Medical Technologist
Physician Assistant
Optometrist
Health Care Administrator
Judge
Paralegal
Librarian

Hobbies and Interests

Concentration games like chess and Trivial Pursuit, playing computer games, watching sporting events, pursuing physical fitness, and playing solitary sports such as golf.

People Associated With This Type

Arthur Wellington - The Duke of Wellington
George Washington - U.S. President and general
Dwight D. Eisenhower - U.S. President (R) and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during WW2
Augustus - Emperor of Rome
Warren Buffett - Super-investor and author
Jeff Bezos - Founder of Amazon
Ingvar Kamprad - Founder of IKEA
Peter Thiel - Founder of PayPal
Thomas Hobbes - Philosopher
Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalyst
Martin Heidegger - Philosopher
Robert De Niro - Actor
Calvin Coolidge - U.S. President (R)
Richard Nixon - U.S. President (R)
Woodrow Wilson - U.S. President (D)
Xenophon - Greek historian and soldier
Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany
Joseph Ratzinger - Pope
Elizabeth Holmes - Founder and CEO of Theranos
Morgan Freeman - Actor

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