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I'd say INTJ and INTP

If you happen to be http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html you need to analyze your wife and read from the net how she thinks. I'm INTJ and it helped me a lot.

Actually, I recall when having a MBTI test (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) that of the 16 personality types, being told that there is a considerable skew of people in the armed forces to being ESTJ or ISTJ.

Generally those people who are Intuitive, Feeling and Perceiving (as characterised by the MBTI, which isn't necessarily the same as what you might think those words mean) don't "fit in" as well with the usual type of person needed in the armed forces.

There have been studies done on this (google it) and it makes sense that the armed forces isn't the best place for people who place emphasis on feelings, intuition (in the MBTI sense this refers to those who place an emphasis on abstract and theoretical data and future possibilities and insight) and Perceiving (MBTI defines this as being someone who sees the world in shades of grey).

The most common armed forces recruit is generally ESTJ, who is a logical person who deals with physical facts, makes judgements on the world in black and white terms and uses logic. Now it could be argued that's exactly like your average hacker but read a definition of an ESTJ at somewhere like http://www.personalitypage.com/ESTJ.html and you see how nicely that fits your typical soldier type.

There's all sorts of people and no doubt the military may have some places for pretty much any kind of person, but on average the ESTJs are what they need/want it seems.

Of course this isn't necessarily the best way to characterise people anyway, but it gives a good feel that the military don't really want just any old person. A lot of people I know are ENTP (like me) or INFP and you just know they wouldn't fit in a military command structure. Heaven knows, most of us have trouble just fitting in with a corporate lifestyle!

You obviously know as little about management and hiring as they know about programming. I know about programming, and I would still blackball anyone who made comments with your tone or content. In fact, I have google alerts set up on most of my employees (and their usernames and whatever), so if I were your boss I'd probably already know you posted this and be joking about it with your other bosses... My advice, look at the Myers Briggs types (I know your type of people don't believe in that voodoo) and learn that HR people think programmers are illogical idiots as much as programmers think the same of HR people. Why? Not because one of them is right. Programmers, no matter how "management" their title is, have no more business hiring than HR people have programming. Neither HR nor management care about saving money as much as they care about making money, they just understand exactly what you just said--a new graduate probably is more excited to work there, will work for less, and won't complain or sue; and old programers have their old ways of doing things, always demand more than market forces dictate, and always end up suing. I was in one place where we had to keep the AC on full-blast at all times, AND keep a space heater (most of the time on full-blast) at every station. That's not worth it when a young punk will do 80% as good for 50% of the money, and will have ideas. And if anyone ever said "I'm not here to..." or "That isn't part of my job" within earshot of me, they'd be gone befor they finished the sentence. No exceptions.

Who has the MBTI type which more closely represents the needs and wants of this position?

If you've studied programming and have a deep interest in economics/business then you might be better for this position. A lot of programmers go this way. They get into programming initially, until they learn they want more. You seem reasonably entrepreneurial, so you might fit this build. Generally these people have an MBTI type of ENTJ. Where is real programmers and science types are usually INTJ. But this doesn't mean you can't be out of the norm and not work well.

Do the Jung Typology Test and find out more about yourself at Portrait of an ENTJ and here The Portrait of the FieldMarshal Rational

Overall for a business you need to know more about business/economics (and maybe some politics for fun?), not finance, not technology. Whom ever has the best skill set and want for this, should have the position.

If you have left it to asking for people on /. for whether or not, perhaps you don't want it that much, or don't have the forcefulness for that kind of position.

Although remember what happened with Paul Allen and always stay firm with what's in your best needs! After all that's what business is, interacting entities all striving for what's best for them, and coming to a medium.

I really enjoy getting into the characters - developing them.

Its not about the problem solving. Its about using my imagination to shape things. Coding is the same. I build upon the world, and the structures that I make please me.

A lot of the entertainment in role playing is in the fact that doing so is easy. I can code a behaviour I envision in perhaps a few hours or a few days, but I can create a character in a few minutes - and act him out with much greater detail.

I think that the reason behind this is not so much that coders like to solve problems, but that people who roleplay are drawn to programming for the same reason - its a personality type thing. Which personality type?
This one.

The J means that as new data arises, she'll be reluctant or unwilling to revise and adapt that judgement.

Ummm.

"Others may falsely perceive the INTJ as being rigid and set in their ways. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the INTJ is committed to always finding the objective best strategy to implement their ideas. The INTJ is usually quite open to hearing an alternative way of doing something."

How many highschool algebra students could answer that question, however? Even though the answer is simple.

I suggest you look at an elementery school book what you are talking about is fully covered there. The teachers nor the student bother to read the text.

But the fact is, a student doesn't really understand it until they work in areas where these sorts of things don't apply. And BTW they don't often understand it then. Most /.ers don't even know that 3rd normal form is essentially the criteria to guarantee that algebra on database tables is associative. Some people find that kind of comment helpful other find it just adds to confusion.

I think this has to do more with learning styles than anything else. You like abstraction and so assume everyone else does. Elementery teachers almost without exception like very concreate learning and that's why drawn to that field in the first place.

I had the exact same problem as I graduated high school and entered college as a freshman almost a year ago. My grades were on a steady decline through high school and I seemed to lack any motivation to study for my courses and complete my assignments. But I knew I was smart -- my IQ was 136.

I went into my university's office of disability services, thinking I might have dyslexia because of some difficulty in reading and hoping I could be testing. After a few interviews with myself and my parents, and several months of taking a variety of achievement, aptitude, and psychological tests, I was diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and my doctor put me on a prescription for Strattera.

Since then, I feel like I've been reborn. With the medication, I have a renewed motivation to work hard on my studies and I'm able to keep better attention on my reading assignments and professor's long-winded lectures. You claim to have "unlimited attention span" when working on things you enjoy, but your grades seem to reflect otherwise -- I bet you had trouble getting your homework assignments done, didn't you? If I were you, I would look into getting tested for ADD.

On a somewhat related note, I'm an ENTJ.

I think it's not much a religion, but more a philosophy. At least for me, a "geek religion" is an oxymoron: if a geek is a cold-minded individual that wants everything to make sense, he/she would have no religion at all.

But maybe I'm being too much INTJ on this ;-) Everyone should believe what he/she wants and finds meaningful, if that doesn't mean any harm to anyone.

I would dare to guess that the writer of this article is quite likely to be an INFP personality according to the Myers-Briggs personality type classification system.