JDQ Radar showing the typical personality type demands made in a career as a writer.
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
Asking uncomfortable questions, organising people (Producer/Director/Journalist - ENFJ)
Working with a team, having an end product, managing and developing my product, being creative (editor - ENTJ)
I like being creative, developing new ideas and projects, seeing the end product we produce every week, working in a team and leading it. (editor)
I like the free expression and creativity. (Writer)
Rating 5/6
Public speaking and sales pitch. (public affairs specialist - INFJ)
Like flexibilty, constant change, growth oportunity, travel and training, Dislike shrinking salary, irregularity of work load, long hours at times. (multilingual editor and translator - INFP)
I like the autonomy and creativity of writing. (writer/editor - INFP)
I like the freedom in fiction writing and don’t enjoy the restraints and politics of journalism. (fiction writer, journalist and editor)
Like - working independently; researching projects; thinking of how to organize information for our readers Dislike - working with others who are less competent; working in the office (I’d much rather work from home according to my own schedule); the mundane work I have to do—proofreading, copyediting (senior medical writer)
Freedom, not having to be accountable to one person, opportunity to be creative (Website owner)
I dislike the data entry and repetitive nature of volunteer coordination. (Writer and volunteer coordinator)
Rating 4/6
the “working on my own” part!!! (translator - ENFP)
Pressure of deadlines, overwhelming workload (Editor/reporter - INFJ)
I don’t like the internal pressure I put on myself, and how lonely the writing can sometimes be. (novelist - INFJ)
It’s a nuisance to constantly have to chase after commissions, then chase after payment. I hate not knowing where money’s going to come from. It’s hard to get anything done unless I’m given a firm deadline. (Freelance writer/editor)
Like variety, mental stimulation, opportunity to learn about different things, organising information to make sense to others. Dislike being undervalued, having to rely on others whose standards aren’t as high as mine (Journalist)
I like the freedom and the variety. I dislike the need to build and maintain a number of relationships, the responsibility to ask (challenging, insightful) questions, and the competitive nature of the work. Also, I have a hard time suppressing my need to be universally liked, and so I think the people I interact with hold me in lower regard. (reporter)
Rating 3/6
corporate jargon (medical writer - ENFP)
meticulous details (technical author - ENFP)
Too much writing ! Not getting enough strategic and managerial experience. (Senior PR Account Manager - ENTP)
I love writing and researching for article sto write about, but I don’t like having to write for customers from a particular angle. (news reporter - INFJ)
Rating 2/6
new managers (managing editor - ESFJ)
That I spend most of my time working alone and being self-involved. (Radio Producer - ESFP)
like working with people. dislike politics and pressure (communication - ESTJ)
Not having enough flexibility and face time; not feeling relevant. (technical editor - INFJ)
I like working with people. I dislike office politics and pressure. (communications coordinator)
Not enough interaction, creativity or challenge. (I handle the writing for our website, press releases and handle some sales related issues.)
too procedure and deadline driven, not inspiring enough. Is meaningless to me. (technical journalist)
Rating 1/6
I hate that it is so solitary and the projects are mainly long term (about a year long) and there’s hardly any change. I sit in my office all day. I’d rather be talking to others and getting things done in a more immediate fasion. (Technical Writer - ESFJ)
Boring Routine No place for creativity (Translator)
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