The Career Within You

Finding the perfect job for your personality.

by Elizabeth Wagele

Polanski’s Movie “Carnage” and Personality Types Part II

This is Part II of my blog on Roman Polanski’s Carnage, starring Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz. Read More

Polanski’s Movie “Carnage” and Personality Types: Part I

Roman Polanski’s Carnage is a story of what happens when the parents of two eleven year old boys try to act civilized after one of the boys, Zachary, defends himself with a stick and knocks two of Ethan’s teeth out. Before it was a movie, it was a French Tony Award-winning stage play by Yasmina Reza, God of Carnage.

In a few paragraphs you'll see what kind of man Mitt Romney's web site thinks he is. Read More

How to Get Along With Introverts Part II

If you read my last blog, you introverts probably left it on your desktops for the extroverts in your life to read. This will help them understand you even more.

• Invite introverts to join in, but do not push them: Read More

How to Get Along With Introverts Part I

We all want to feel free to be ourselves, but relationships run more smoothly when we're aware of one another's needs and sensitivities. Read More

Isadora Duncan, Dancing Rebel

When one of my daughters was about six years old, she took a weekly dance class from Sulgwyn Boynton Quitzow, whose family were followers of Isadora Duncan. The family lived in a famous house in the hills of Berkeley. It had once had Greek style columns and no walls. Walls were added later. Heat came from hot water in pipes in the floors. Read More

Chomsky Supports Occupy Wall Street

Noam Chomsky (born in 1928) is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist. As the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy, he influenced the fields of computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Read More

Journalist Michael Hastings, Purveyor of Truth

Michael Hastings (born in 1980) is a journalist who hates war. He tries to see things from many points of view so he assumes he'd feel differently about violence or war if someone were breaking into his house or enemies were invading his country. And he realizes the flip side of war is adventurism and the excitement of being in life or death situations. Read More

Morrissey, Famous Romantic Type Singer

I had a student from the University of California help me out for two weeks during the winter break, which ended last week. This was the third year I've had a U.C. extern and I've enjoyed them a lot. Cara wrote a guest blog for me about Jack Kerouac and I and helped her with a short story. When I mentioned to people that I had an extern they would look at me with question marks in their eyes. Read More

Jeffrey Sachs - An Economist Who Makes Sense

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says, "The world's greatest shortage is not of oil, clean water, or food, but of moral leadership." Born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, he became a full professor of economics with tenure at Harvard at 29. Now he's director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Speaking to an Occupy Wall Street rally October 7, 2011, he said: Read More

What is Putin’s Personality Type?

Sometimes my readers let me know they're upset when they disagree with how I type a famous person, especially when they think I mistake a counter-phobic Questioner for an Asserter, or vice versa. These two types, which can both be aggressive, are often difficult to tell apart. Read More

What’s Introversion Got to Do with Occupy Wall Street?

Johnny Depp is questioning, sensitive, and guided by his feelings. He sounds to me like a Romantic type influenced by his Observer "wing" (the personality next to his): Gabrielle Donnelly of the Daily Mail describes him as "softly spoken and, endearingly, still retaining about him something of the questioning air of the student." Read More

Tony Bennett, Peace Seeker

After the 1989 SF earthquake, two friends and I and hundreds of other people walked to the middle of the Bay Bridge from the Berkeley/Oakland side. Read More

A Maverick Composer's Creative Life

This is a special blog in this series because David Del Tredici, a 4-Romantic and leading contemporary composer, winner of the Pulizter Prize, and "father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music," is the only famous person I know of who has typed himself in the Enneagram system. We don't have to guess what type he is. Read More

Hillary Clinton: Perfectionist

Ingrid Stabb and I list Hillary Clinton (born 1947), Secretary of State, as a Perfectionist in the Enneagram system for her history of reform and many of her other characteristics mentioned in this article. This is part of a series on famous types. Read More

Famous People - Obama

Some Peace Seekers like work where they can consider a breadth of interesting material, others prefer to concentrate on a comfortable environment, and still others care most about balancing their life and their work. Read More

What 3 Elements Do “Asserters” Look for in Jobs?

Asserters often like to do things their own way. They need a challenging job where they can take control of a situation or lead. Read More

What Three Elements Do Adventurers Look for in Jobs?

Some Adventurers want lots of variety in their job. Others are most interested in social networking. Still others insist on a sense of adventure and newness each day. Read More

What 3 Elements Do Observers Look for in Jobs?

In addition to having a job that they can focus on in depth, some Enneagram Observer types prefer a job where they can share knowledge. Others like to do work on important issues. Still others want to have abundant independence on their job. Read More

What 3 Elements Do "Achievers" Look for in Jobs?

My friend tells me we have many brains.

We have brains for remembering facts, brains for figuring things out, brains that tell us about our bodies, emotional brains, automatic brains, and other kinds of brains. Read More

What 3 Common Elements Do Perfectionists Look for in Jobs?

In Chapter ten of The Career Within You, "Fundamentals to Look for in Your Work Situation," we list these elements people look for in a job:

• the income it will provide

• the opportunity to work on their interests or passions, and

• successful affiliation with other people. Read More

Depressed Introverted Children

It's heartening to know that a book can make a big difference in a young person's life. Read More

What Does Calling Someone a “Victim” Mean?

A victim is a person who has been hurt or taken advantage of, which most of us try to avoid. Some people hit others over the head with this word. Some seem to like being victimized; some almost compete over who is the biggest victim. What is it about this word? Read More

A Career Fit for a Romantic: Elizabeth Taylor’s

No actresses matched Taylor's hold on the collective imagination. In the public's mind, she was the dark goddess for whom playing Cleopatra as she did with such notoriety, required no great leap from reality. Read More

Annette Bening’s Role as a Perfectionist

Nobody would ever mistake me for a Perfectionist and I doubt Elizabeth Taylor ever played one. However, the role of Nic played by Annette Bening in the movie "The Kids Are All Right" is a One-Perfectionist in the Enneagram. She worked hard to become a doctor and now she's balancing her work with the stresses of her family life. You would want to have a Perfectionist surgeon, dentist, or pilot. Read More

How I Relate to “The Black Swan”

Perfectionism and Passion Read More

Elizabeth Wagele is the co-author with Ingrid Stabb of The Career Within You: How to Find the Perfect Job for Your Personality.

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About The Career Within You

"The Career Within You" stems from a book of the same title so it's about the nine Enneagram personalities, sometimes about people's careers, or about whatever I'm excited about when blogging day comes around. I've written about psycho-ecology, a great documentary on parents of gays, and how great it feels to play Beethoven. In every blog I include an original drawing.