I thought you posted once that you were an ENFJ. Did I have that wrong? Sounds like you are on the path to your career balance :)

Ed,

I too am an INFJ since I tested years ago and every time since. I am a little older than you and made accounting my second career. I made it so far to become a licensed CPA recently. I did both auditing and tax work. I found it difficult and that my mind didn't work the way other accountants did. I have taken graduate courses in taxation and this last one in partnership tax nearly killed me. I understand it after a great deal of difficulty and later, find that I cannot remember anything at all. I've always been a good student but find this a great wall I cannot get over. I graduated with an undergraduate degree in math/computer science so go figure.

I cannot fight it anymore, I am going to pursue the path of the INFJ, idealist conselor.

Edwin.
No kidding our name is even close.

My new roommate just got her BS in Psych at OSU and she's an ISFJ. I have yet to explore what she intends to do with it but we have a whole year to get to know each other. We got lost in conversation once she moved in that before we realized it, it was 6am - where did the time go!

I'd have to check my old transcript but I took Pysch 100 and I'm pretty sure I eeked out a B. I tend to think the way a class is taught has a lot of bearing on how the student will do. My class was pointless because all we did was read through the text book and memorize terms. Boring. Don't sweat it, Ed.

Ed: "All I hear about at Ohio State is how hard psych 100 is."

Hard is very relative. For several reasons.

For instance, big universities often make entry level classes intentionally more difficult than they have to be. They do this to weed out students, because there are more students than they can accomodate in their junior and senior classes. The university does not intend to everyone who enters to graduate. They go out of their way to make sure that easily 50% never make it all the way through. You can help even out those odds by going to a community college for your first couple years. With an AA degree most in-state universities have to accept you and they can't make you take any more general education classes. Thus, you skip straight to your junior classes (with maybe a small handful of freshman or sophmore pre-requisite classes to make up) and you're past the "wash people out" phase of the university.

Also, well, I'm an engineer. Engineering was friggin' HARD. I went into engineering because I could do the math and because I liked problem solving (by the way, if you're an INFJ then you can do the math whether you think so or not. It takes time and a lot of work, but you can get it). Eventually I think I would find a traditional engineering career a bit unfulfilling, but I've found ways to make myself a nich in my career field and exploit my INFJ-ness (basically, after a certain point moving up in most organizations is more about leadership and people than about technical skill).

I may piss off some people when I say this, but after fighting my way through differential equations , structural analysis, reinforced concrete design, thermodynamics, and all the rest of that stuff a psychology degree just doesn't seem like it would be as much work. My sister has a degree in psychology. I could have done that. Of course, she could have gotten a degree in engineering if she wanted to, since she's just as intelligent as I am (if not smarter). Between the two of us, I think I had to work a lot more in college. Thus, I have a bit snobbish attitude towards difficult classes ;)

She had more fun in college than I did, though. Then again, I make a lot more than her now. Then again, her job is a lot less stressful than mine. Then again, mine's a lot more secure than hers. Then again, she has more career flexibility than I do. It's all about trade-offs and what matters to you.

Anyway, my point isn't to point out what a bad-ass I am (ha!), it's to say that most of the time when people talk about a class being "hard", what they really mean is that the class is a lot of work. Most folks are lazy and aren't willing to work. It saddened me to see how many of my classmates failed classes simply because they wouldn't do their assigned work. As long as you are willing to WORK then you can get just about any degree you want and have any grade point average you want.

As far as deciding what to do with your life goes... well, I'm 31 and I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. My best advice is to pick a direction and keep moving in that direction. As long as you keep moving forward (that's FOREWARDS... not backwards or sideways or in circles) then eventually you'll end up somewhere. You can always refine your destination as long as you keep moving. If you stop moving you can change your direction all you want to but you'll never get anywhere.

For what it's worth, I only took General Psychology, which was basically an entry level elective class in order to meet some sort of humanities requirement., but I aced the class and really enjoyed it. I had a great teacher, and the material was very interesting. General Psychology and Religions of the World were the only classes I had in college where I actually read the entire textbooks on my own. Fluid Mechanics was somewhat less interesting reading.