JDQ Radar showing the typical personality type demands made in a career in ministry.
Key: darker areas indicate high demand, lighter ones less demand. That is, if your personality type is a darker area, then this career matches your personality.
Below you will find comments by people in this career. They were asked to rate their job (out of 6) and what they liked or did not like about their job. Their comments are sorted by the rating they assigned. The actual job title they gave is in brackets with, if provided, the personality type they declared.
Rating 6/6
I love the wide variety of contacts, and the fact that I have a lot of time to spend with people, to form relationships that will support and help them. I also love the fact that as a chaplain, it is my job to have deep, meaningful conversations with others about life, the universe and everything! (Chaplain - INFP)
Rating 5/6
Like: Choir members are faithful and supportive. Dislike: Clergy are not demanding enough of staff members, which discourages any other staff members from being hard working and conscientious. (Church Musician - ESTJ)
I have a lot of freedom to work with people and create new ideas for how to minister to my students (I teach English and Bible classes) and to my church and community. I dislike the number of relationships that I need to maintain to do my job well, and often feel like I could do better working with fewer people. (Short Term Missionary - INFJ)
too much detail; too many conflicting opinions and prefernces (Senior Pastor - INFP)
Managing volunteers (Youth Minister - INFP)
don’t enjoy details (Senior Pastor)
Rating 4/6
I don’t feel that I do enough to change the circumstances of others. (Elementary Ministry Coordinator - ENFJ)
sometimes creativity can be hindered by immediate need, and I can become easily emotionally drained by constantly attending to people in need (Chaplain - INFP)
All the paperwork and followup analyses!!! Not being able to interact with people enough because of the paperwork or organizing I focus on for projects and programs. (Full-Time Youth Director at a African-American Church - ISTP)
I enjoy the people I work with. I enjoy building relationships with co-workers and customers. I do not like the repetitive nature of my work. I would prefer to have work that is project-driven rather than time-driven. (cafe assistant)
Strict organization (chaplain)
Rating 3/6
I like builiding relationships with people and seeing their lives change. (Director of Youth Ministry - ENFP)
I manager the finances the college ministry I work for as well as help in the planning of events both large and small. (Finance Manager for a College Ministry - INTJ)
I dislike working with people who are so disparate in musical ability, most of them not being musical at all, musch less competent. (organist/choirmaster)
Rating 2/6
working on my own (Curate - ENFJ)
Public resolution of conflicts, necessity to be the center of the community social circle, fielding frequent criticism and complaint (Priest - INFJ)
Having to appear ‘fake’ or rund things, to run things, to make people happy. (Clergy - INFP)
loss of faith, imploding church, clergy spread too thinly and oversstretched (priest - INFP)
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