ROMANTICS (#1)
As a Romantic, your rich interior life of thoughts and feelings contributes wisdom and meaning to others’ worlds. You may feel a certain melancholy, but you also have a vision of how to make life more significant and elegant. Since you value authenticity, you express your moods honestly, whether they are sad, mad, subtle, or tempestuous. It puzzles you that others limit themselves to trying to appear happy most of the time. Others value you for exploring both the dark and bright sides of a situation, and they enjoy your ability to see life with an ironic twist.
Romantics sometimes prefer jobs that, though they may or may not be personally fulfilling, allow them to save energy for important artistic or otherwise soul-enriching activities outside work.
Bringing originality to what you do is one of your greatest strengths.
Romantics who are especially gifted at interpreting meaning include orchestra conductors, mediators, and theater critics. In business, they may take a complex technical system and translate it for the sales force to understand by adding attractive visuals and putting the subject on a more accessible level.
Careers can be built around beauty in the fields of visual displays, the arts, and audio and video production.
Gloria, how she does her work, and in what setting, is as important as what she does. Having beauty around her makes everything about her life easier.
Beauty is so important to Aretha that she will cry if someone lives in an ugly setting because she imagines what it might do to that person’s spirit.
If you are a Romantic, you are most likely introverted and need to work in private for part of the day. Corporate jobs that require you to run from meeting to meeting or be creative on demand might not appeal to you. When you have enough time alone each day, you can use it to collect your thoughts, get in touch with your feelings, and store up some ideas for future use. Being in a group might be unpleasant for you, like being part of a herd and losing touch with your individuality.
Melancholy Dark moods are not uncommon for Romantics. They may feel attached to a sad feeling that stops short of depression, a mood often referred to as “sweet melancholy.” Some are also prone to serious forms of depression.
“I feel melancholy when things can’t move forward, so I chose working for myself, which I control.”
The hardest thing about being a Romantic, to some, is the feeling of being on the outside looking in—as if they are not living their “true” life. But Romantics who are engaged in their work feel that their life has meaning.
OBSERVERS (#2)
You don’t mean to be aggressive or dismissive; you’re just trying to get at the truth of the matter. So you can become impatient with those around you who don’t seem as logical or informed as you are. If you have superior knowledge, you can appear arrogant. Observers don’t always blend in well with other people.
Your ability to perceive how things fit together enables you to predict likely outcomes.
They can easily engage in work that is interesting to them. Trouble comes when they are prevented at work from being engaged at the depth they enjoy. Most of them have little patience for small talk, and they try never to be trapped in a boring situation.
Observers don’t need outside stimulation; they need the lack of unpleasant outside stimulation.
To have such high standards for impeccable logic that I can get out of sorts when others seem illogical.
Observers specialize in having thoughts about potential threats far in the future. They do well to pay attention to what could be the source of their fears and to try to resist letting fear paralyze them. Many can be good at keeping a poker face, even while inside they feel anxious, rather like a deer that freezes when caught in the headlights. Others’ anxieties can infect the Observer easily, so proximity to a nervous co-worker can be unsettling.
Observers can be annoyed by intrusion, ignorance, and lazy thinking.