u/WinterDetail2126

I'm an undergraduate and I'm going to be starting as a research assistant in a lab this fall. This would be contributing to actual research, going to meetings, data collection, etc. I'm also applying to part-time campus jobs and there are a few interesting lab tech positions. The responsibilities mostly include sterilization, laboratory maintenance, restocking supplies. I know the general consensus is to not work in two labs because you're spreading yourself thin but would there be any downside to working in two labs this way? They all have a 8-12 hour weekly max so it's not like I would be putting in any more effort than a non-laboratory part-time job.

Since the ENTP type is classified as the debater on 16p, I remember seeing something along the lines of that a lawyer was an ideal job for an ENTP because they can "debate for a living" and some corny overgeneralistic stereotypical stuff.

I think it would definitely require an ENTP with well developed Si because of the discipline and focus required but also because a large part of an attorney's job involves tedious tasks like paperwork which might drain and bore an ENTP. But I wonder if ENTPs would realistically want to be a lawyer from a personal value standpoint.

For me, while I do enjoy playing the devil's advocate in contemplative hypotheticals, I don't think I'd actually want to be the devil's advocate in real life. Such as being a defense attorney where I know my client is most definitely in the wrong but needing to put that all aside to defend them. Or being in corporate law when most corporations are the ones fucking indivudals over. Could I do it and not lose sleep over it? Probably. But I feel like I would just feel drained and unfulfilled. I think there are fields of law where you are mostly representing the "underdogs" like civil rights law but I feel like those cases usually end up with bigger corporations and the more rich and powerful winning. I feel like law has a lot of outcomes where Te wins over Ti logic if that makes sense? Which would frustrate me.

I'm struggling a lot to figure out how to customize shipping and return services for my listings. I've looked at videos and threads but the general eBay listing layout seems to be different to mine. I've attached images in the comments of my listing settings which don't offer any option for me to change shipping or return settings. I'm not a business account if that matters. It seems that eBay is introducing a new shipping experience to individual sellers that may be the reason for my limited options for customization.

I've read so many discussion forums and reddit threads and I still cannot understand shipping. I am selling clothes and when I listed my items, I picked the option that says buyer pays for shipping as I don't want to put it into my cost and pay for it out of pocket. I assumed this would just show up on the buyer's side as ex. $5.99 + Shipping, but when I checked what it would look like through an incognito tab, it showed up as $5.99 + Free Shipping. I was confused so I went to the check out tab and even there, it said free shipping for me (acting as a buyer). Then I got my first sale($5.99 -> $4.88 after seller fees). I also got a prepaid shipping label by buyer through eBay.

Does this mean that I just print that out and slap it on the package and don't have to pay for anything? I know that a lot of reddit threads I read dealt with people having to pay for the shipping label themselves using the received funds and I'm trying to figure out if that's also my scenario where when I go to the USPS office, I have to pay. I'm also still confused who exactly paid for shipping then. Did eBay include this in my $5.99 base cost? Just so I know how to price accordingly in the future. And if the buyer paid for the shipping label, how do I figure out the size requirements for my package?

I hope I don't sound crazy stupid right now. I know this might be a repetitive post but I just cannot wrap my head around how this works.

Edit: Also the shipping method is USPS Standard Shipping

I have an strong internal, probably one-sided, dislike for ISFPs. I can't quite put my finger on it. My dad, old high school best friend, and first BF are all ISFPs.

I appreciate my dad in that he works hard to provide for our family, sacrificed a lot, and is a relatively chill dad. But he never follows up on his promises, is relatively one-track minded, does not really do any acts of love that are meaningful to me. He sees his fulfillment of providing for the family as checking off the responsibility of being a parent and doesn't do much else past that in that once he comes home from work, he's more of another child in the household than a parent. He seems somewhat self-absorbed in his own life experience and can't visualize nor has interest in understanding his children's different life experiences, opinions and perspectives.

My old high-school best friend and I bonded over mutual shared experiences and hobbies. But we eventually ended our friendship because our values and perspectives didn't align. She would always have a superfluous take on anything I did and it would devolve into pointless spats because it constantly felt like I was being crucified for any simple opinion or action (ex. I think it's okay to sit on the handicap seats of a bus if there are clearly no people on the bus that need it). It felt that while I was willing to try and see her side, she would simply turn up her nose and look down at me as objectively wrong. I know there are also many things that I did that probably didn't meet her needs but I can't concretely think of them myself. She felt that I could be too much sometimes and also it was difficult for her to tell if I actually liked her or not. All very valid points that I have taken into consideration when trying to improve myself and my relationships.

My first boyfriend and I got together because we had a class together. It was easy and fun to be together when we saw each other every day and did fun activities. But once our class together ended, and we started spending more time not doing activities, but talking to each other, I couldn't stand him. He was also very rigid in his values, constantly thinking that he was right and unable to consider my perspective. He could not understand that it matters more to express love in the way your partner wants to be loved than how you want to love your partner. It was impossible to hold any sort of deep or existential conversation without him making it into a joke or saying "I don't know, I don't really think about those things."

Overall, it seems that the overall pattern for my experience is that ISFPs rarely try to understand me or consider other perspectives. They always seem very wrapped up in their own experience of life, and also place their values as superior to others. The other thing is that ISFPs will almost never reach out or apologize first. It's hard to fault them for this because I'm probably like this to other types but for ISFPs, I'm ALWAYS the first one to reach out or apologize.

I'm sure there are a lot of great balanced ISFPs out there, but I can't help feel like all my interactions with them have ended up with me feeling devalued and misunderstood. I dislike creating a blanket-view of a type so I'm curious to know other experiences?

I'm an ENTP and for most of my life I have been friends with sensors, most likely because sensors are more statistically common, and I was also in spaces more dominated by them. While I admire many of the skills and traits that they have, I always felt a little disconnected from them.

Recently, I've befriended some intuitives and never realized how easy it was to talk. I try to filter myself a lot in conversation, and can be quite self aware if I'm going on about a nonsensical topic or discussing something without real-life value. I'm also used to stumbling over my words or trying to find the right phrases to express my thoughts in a way that can be understood. My sensor friends will listen and try to provide input but it can end up like we're talking about two different things. But with intuitives, talking became so effortless. It's like I was having the conversations I usually have in my head but out loud and jointly with another person. I didn't have to try and phrase my thoughts carefully and precisely because they kind of understood me regardless. They could also more often finish my thought than not, while with my sensor friends, sometimes we would finish each others' thoughts but always incorrectly. I think I genuinely got an adrenaline rush from talking.

This experience was so eye-opening because I felt like I really learned how differently people perceive the world. It was also comforting because I always felt like I had weird thinking patterns so it was validating to see that it wasn't so.

I still love my sensors very much and I think they are also amazing friends for things going on in real-life and discussing more grounded topics but I never realized how fulfilling it is to be friends with both types and kind of cover all by bases of thought.

I'm curious to know if there are any other intuitives with similar experiences? I know that my Si/Se are especially underdeveloped and functions I really struggle with, and even on letter-typing tests, I would almost always come out with 90%+ N, so maybe I just really struggle with connecting with sensors.

I am working on a research proposal for a class (the study is not actually going to be done) where I am proposing to study the differences in cognitive offloading between three different conditions (so three groups) and across ages 6-9 let's say. I want to treat age as a continuous variable because some papers I have read have recommended doing so but I can't figure out how to do random assignment then? Do I treat age as discrete for the random assignment portion and only as continuous in the data analysis? Does this make sense? Also, could I still refer to my project as a 3x3 experimental study or does that not make sense since there is one independent variable with three conditions and one independent variable that is continuous.