19. Best Careers for Highly Sensitive Introverts

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The previous episode was about the single best job for HSPs--working for yourself. Today's show is about more traditional jobs and careers, including what you should look for (and avoid as an HSP). What qualities of being highly sensitive are a benefit to certain jobs?

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world
0:07.9	brighter, louder, and more intensely. Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly
0:14.4	sensitive person traits. Welcome to episode 19. I'm your host, Kelly. And the purpose of this show is to talk about
0:23.9	common issues that highly sensitive people experience as well as sharing personal stories to
0:28.6	help you realize that you aren't alone. You aren't weird and you aren't crazy. And I want to
0:34.4	mention that I am an introvert. Not all highly sensitive people are, about 70% are,
0:39.9	but keep in mind that some things I discuss may cross over into introvert territory. So if you're
0:44.4	an extrovert, just keep that in mind. Last week, I talked about what I think is the single
0:49.8	best job for HSPs, and that is working for yourself. Today's show is diving deeper into which
0:56.3	careers are good for HSPs, and is for those of us who can't or don't want to work for
1:01.1	ourselves or to work at home. I'd like to share a comment on the blog from a reader, and she wrote,
1:06.6	Apparently I am rare, an extroverted HSP. I'm a nurse in my early 30s and I do love my job and my
1:12.7	patients, but I cannot deal with staff, doctors, managers, etc. It makes me hate my job and lose
1:18.8	focus. I have had several jobs this year alone. I bounce around to the next place when a co-worker
1:24.2	or manager rubs me the wrong way, and most, quote, normal people are just
1:28.5	able to blow it off or not let it get to them, but I'm not capable of doing that. I would love to
1:33.3	work from home. I keep telling people that, but they say, no, you'll get bored, you wouldn't like
1:37.4	that. But people just don't get it and don't understand me and I'm tired of it. I feel like I could do any job as long as I was surrounded by the right
1:44.7	people. Thanks so much for this comment. It illustrates just how important it is for HSPs to feel at
1:51.9	peace in their workplace. This reader loves her profession. She loves being a nurse, loves her patients,
1:57.6	but it's the other people that are tough for her to handle being around.
2:04.6	Just one coworker or boss that rubs you the wrong way can be a major issue.
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