Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

In my perfect world… | WLDN — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:40:34 +0000

[...] all the things I get sidetracked by are fun or exciting; I’ve done what seems to be a typical Scanner behaviour and, for lack of a career path that feels like a “calling”, I’ve settled for a [...]

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

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Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Zach Beauvais — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:11:08 +0000

@azaaza someone pointed out there exists something called a "Scanner Personality" http://bit.ly/4d64X1 Oops, something else to look at now;)

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Alan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:30:28 +0000

@zbeauvais Re: "ooh, shiny": Sounds like you might have what Barbara Sher calls a "scanner" personality: http://bit.ly/Vmb3R

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Douglas Eby — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:10:32 +0000

A post re @BarbaraSher : Are you a Scanner? Maybe all you need is a good enough job. http://talentdevelop.com/590/

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Douglas Eby — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:30:57 +0000

Jim - you are certainly not alone. And there are many possibilities for making a living for talented people - even beyond a "good enough job" working for someone else. See articles by Valerie Young, including You Don't Need A Job to Make a Living.

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Jim Penson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:47:12 +0000

I have struggled with this for years, perhaps all of my adult life. I seem to have violated most of the guidelines you mention for choosing a “good enough” job. I went from physically taxing, dangerous physical labor jobs to soul crushing 55 hour a week high stress, little personal reward computer IT jobs (a series of failing companies, waves of layoffs, etc.) Both either left me physically or emotionally unavailable to my own creativity. Eventually I failed at IT at about the time that the high tech bubble burst, then 9-11 followed soon after, and I was suddenly unable to find a “good enough” job and started my own music business, which, while creativley satisfying, is completely impovershing, creating its own stress. Now, at age 55, with holes in my resume the size of a truck, too experienced and educated to take a sales counter job, and too unskilled (and probably youthful) to get another IT job, I seem hung between the two worlds. This article has helped me to identify what the matter is, and I thank you for it. Somewhere there has to be a “good enough” job for me that will allow me a creative life while not sucking the soul out of my chest…

Jim

Are you a scanner personality? Maybe all you need is a good enough job.

Blaze Cassidy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:08:55 +0000

How true! It’s a fine between being too bored and being too challenged at work. I’ve come to that conclusion myself, that I will only be happy doing a combination of different things.

What is really a shame is that employers seem to gear the work environment in favor of non-HSPs, when the Highly Sensitive people are the ones who tend to be the most valuable employees.

We need to put all of those good qualities (contentiousness, caring, creativity, etc.)to work for someone who will really appreciate it: Ourselves!