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ENFP Careers: Best Jobs and Ones to Avoid
The CQ Team · 6 min read · Oct 16, 2026
Where satisfied ENFPs work, from the test publisher's career data on 92,000 people, what those jobs pay, and how far type should steer your choice.
The three most common jobs among satisfied ENFPs in the publisher's career data, which covers more than 92,000 people in 282 jobs, 8,305 of them ENFPs. ENFPs were rarest in engineering, inspection and banking roles. The lists show where ENFPs choose to work and stay happy, which is a different question from where they perform best.
The ten most common jobs among satisfied ENFPs in the publisher's career data, with the 2025 US median pay for the closest occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics where one exists.
| Rank | Job | US median pay |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craft artist | $55,290 |
| 2 | Actor, performing artist, dancer | $29.05 an hour (actors) |
| 3 | Photographer | $44,660 |
| 4 | Forester | Not listed |
| 5 | Musician, singer, composer | Not listed |
| 6 | Clinical, counselling or educational psychologist | $99,110 |
| 7 | Mental health counsellor | $59,350 |
| 8 | Fitness trainer | $47,160 |
| 9 | Bartender | Not listed |
| 10 | Artist, visual artist | $55,290 |
In the same data, these were the least common jobs among ENFPs. The publisher's own advice is not to rule out a job just because your type rarely chooses it.
Air crew
Bank teller
Civil engineer
Engineering technician
Computer hardware engineer
Nuclear engineer
Plant scientist
Inspector and tester
Emergency management
The report also groups jobs into families. The families ENFPs favour involve people and expression. The ones they avoid run on procedures and machines.
Personal care and service Arts, design, entertainment, sports and media Community and social services
Architecture and engineering Production and manufacturing Computers and mathematics Protective services
Less than the job lists imply. The test's own publisher says the instrument assumes all types are capable of doing all jobs, calls the link between type and overall job satisfaction “equivocal”, and calls using it to hire people unethical.
There's a second catch: psychologist David Pittenger showed that occupational type tables partly track the gender mix of a job. So read the lists as a map of where people like you landed and stayed content, then test the fit directly.
“There have (appropriately) been no meaningful studies evaluating the MBTI's ability to predict job performance.”
The Myers-Briggs Company, MBTI Facts
There isn't a single one. Among satisfied ENFPs in the publisher's career sample, the most common jobs were craft artist, actor and photographer, followed by forester, musician and psychologist.
Yes. Engineering roles were among the least common choices for ENFPs in the publisher's data, but the publisher says the test assumes all types are capable of doing all jobs.
In type theory, ENFPs lead with extraverted intuition, which seeks new possibilities. Work built on fixed routine, close detail and little contact with people tends to drain them fastest.
Of the jobs common among satisfied ENFPs, psychologist ($99,110 median in 2025) and producer or director ($90,360) pay the most, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers-Briggs and MBTI are registered trademarks of The Myers & Briggs Foundation. Cerebral Quotient is not affiliated with The Myers & Briggs Foundation or The Myers-Briggs Company.
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