The Wanderer Empath personality at work
Empaths need to be aware of what work environments and type of work best suits their unique personalities. Being prepared with this knowledge can assist you in living your best life.
Your workplace habits and needs
You don’t want to miss a moment, so you are always where the action is. Driven by your whimsical personality, you like to creatively solve problems in the workplace. Often thrust into the spotlight for your quirky and ingenious ideas, you let the positive attention fuel you for quite some time. However, after a while, you find almost any position stale and will be ready to move on.
Keeping your mind engaged with work is your biggest challenge. A fast-paced environment can work well for you if it is creative enough. Too much pressure, like high-volume food service, can put a damper on your mood.
The settings that work best for you are ones where you have the time you need to fully assess a situation and spend adequate time with clients, students, etc.
Your work preference is to be around people. If you are interested in the arts, you often can be found doing collaborative projects or performances, such as being in a band. On the other hand, you also like to explore your own individual artistic talents and do seek to carve out studio time for just yourself when possible.
If you have your own business, you can sometimes get bogged down in the details, so enlisting help for the administrative tasks can be helpful. You need variety in your daily experiences and mundane organization tasks tend to be hard for you to focus on. Overall, work that is changeable, expressive, and theatrical is best for you.
Best work environments for your archetype
The Wanderer Empath needs freedom and inspiration most of all. It is rare to find someone with your personality working at a job that drains your life force. If this is the case, you most likely inventively try to find a way to change your circumstances or manage your situation through your active imagination.
Some of the work environments that work best with your archetype are those that involve space for a high level of self-expression. You love to foster creativity in others and can find yourself working in theaters, arts and crafts, education, and dance studios. You also have a soft spot for animals and can easily enjoy work in an animal shelter.
Another workplace setting that you would thrive in is in-home care or residential treatment. You like to create a homey environment for others and bring a special spark to that kind of work. Your heart is very open and sensitive, which allows you to share your ability to care for others with ease and find comfort in home-like work environments.
Finally, another environment that works well for you is in education settings. Afterschool programs, summer camps, and other youth-oriented workplaces match well with your personality type, preferred pace and variety in a workday.
- Dance/Yoga studio
- School
- Craft store
- Online, co-working spaces, and freelance
- Animal shelter
- Homecare
Possible career paths for your archetype
Your archetype excels at sharing information in a way that is informative, interesting, and accessible. You would make an excellent teacher, storyteller, or creative writer. You can expand this concept and apply it to other creative outlets such as being a dance instructor or music teacher.
You like to interact with colors, shapes, and sounds; your personality tends to be very sensitive to a full range of sensory experiences and can convey the mood of a place through amazing works of art.
Whether you are a musician, painter, or photographer, for example, you always capture the emotion making the works you produce a beautiful blending of evocative and unique.
You also would make an excellent caregiver, hospice aide, or homecare worker due to your compassionate nature. An extreme sense of patience allows you to give thorough and heartfelt care to those in need.
People often describe you as inspiring to them based on your work. Building your confidence in your own skills helps you recognize how amazing you really are.
Some career fields that may suit you as a Wanderer Empath include:
- Designer
- Storyteller
- Creative writer
- Tarot reader
- Caregiver
- Mental health worker
- Travel writer
- Artist
- Dancer
- Singer
- Songwriter- Poet
- Creative
- Stylist
- Hairdresser
- Actor
- Photographer
- (Spiritual) teacher
- Bookseller
- Perfumist
- Stylist
- Designer
- Make-up artist
- Musician
- Early childhood education
- Nanny
- Designer
- Storyteller
- Creative writer
- Tarot reader
- Caregiver
- Mental health worker
- Travel writer
- Artist
- Dancer
- Singer
- Songwriter- Poet
- Creative
- Stylist
- Hairdresser
- Actor
- Photographer
- (Spiritual) teacher
- Bookseller
- Perfumist
- Stylist
- Designer
- Make-up artist
- Musician
- Early childhood education
- Nanny
Practical tips for how to set career goals
If you are setting career goals for yourself, start by living in the moment. You can only muster enthusiasm for what you like at the time you are feeling it. When you lose interest, you tend to change your career in an instant.
You avoid getting complacent and are always seeking to learn, grow, and expand as a person. So when it comes to setting career goals, you want to be aligned with what you are currently interested in doing with your life—even if this might change over time.
You see the work you do as a direct reflection of how you create meaning. You like the idea of having an eclectic career that allows you to use your wide range of abilities, talent, and skills.
Here are some questions to keep in mind for yourself when picking or changing careers.
Will I be able to . . .
- Experience something new every day?
- Change my specialty or role easily?
- Support the creativity of myself and others?
- Spread joy and abundance?
- Share my skillset in a way that is relaxed, interesting, and fun?
- Learn through an exchange of ideas?
- Utilize music, visual arts, storytelling, crafts, and other forms of expression daily?
- Make space for emotions, feelings, and shifting moods?
- Experience a strong social component and interactions with others?
- Connect to a variety of people?
