Tuesday, 25 February 2014

INTP isolation

I'm not talking about being an INTP and keeping yourself away from all of society. This is about how it feels to be an INTP in everyday functioning society. Doing some work in a warehouse, I feel like I am different from everyone else, everyone is in tune with their jobs, not thinking any further than the tasks at hand. Doing as their told by their authorities. This causes great frustration as an INTP, I swear INTP's were not destined to be productive workers. I find myself daydreaming far too often to be anything near productive. This has great negative affects on an INTP, and people don't understand how hard it can be for this type. I find that most of the day I am slow and underachieving at work then I may have short bursts of energy to get things done, then my mind, nihilism particularly, reminds me that all this work has no fundamental meaning in the grand scheme of things; no matter how hard I work today, my manager will move on and be focused on how hard I work tomorrow - it's like a never ending day-to-day strive your best for an unknown purpose besides making someone above you richer.

Another frustration for INTP's is trying to understand other people's motivation - I work in a clothing warehouse and am surrounded by what it seems to be egotistic people who are materialistic and who place a lot more value on their possessions, than say on intellectual pursuits, curiosity and intrinsic good. I know happiness depends a lot of attitude but it's so hard to be positive when you're in a place where stressed is pressed onto each employee to meet deadlines when you know its all about the dollars. I find money to be a superficial kind of motivation and think its pretty sad what people will do to attain it - hence why greed and selfishness and hand-in-hand, it seems.

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