ESTJ

ESTJ: The Guardian, Supervisor (Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging)

Competent, traditional, conscientious, aggressive, athletic, practical, realistic, dependable, organized, self-confident, and efficient. They tend to be model citizens who honor and obey the laws. Gregarious and civic-minded, involved in their community and in membership groups. They have clear standards and beliefs and value security and social order. Enjoy interacting with people. Not interested in theory or abstraction but prefer a world of facts. Very concrete vision of what is acceptable. This can lead to them being very demanding and critical. They are natural leaders who like to be in charge. Very capable in organizing and very hardworking in whatever they undertake. This very capability can lead them to be rigid and too involved in the details. Serious about seeing to it that others obey rules and procedures. If overstressed, they can feel isolated and that society is crumbling around them.

Relationships: Enthusiastically dedicated to their obligations and duties, especially towards their families. God first, family second, and friends third. They seek lifelong secure commitments. They are self-confident to the point of dismissing others opinions and contributions. Sexually, they are likely to be athletic, traditional, enthusiastic, and straight forward. Sex is more of a physical experience than an expression of affection. Enjoy socializing but rather insensitive to the feelings of others.

Parenting: Tends to treat parenthood as a role they play and expect honor and obedience from the children who play the under role. Practical with little appreciation of feelings or imagination from their children. But they can be sociable and playful within the social rules.

Friendships: God and family come before their friends, but they do enjoy free time with friends especially in active pursuits like sports. They love to socialize in clubs and member organizations and can be quite status-conscious. Little patience with untraditional people. Enthusiastic and witty. Dependable and upbeat friends. Can be opinionated and authoritative.

Careers: Love to work and run established institutions. Military leaders, Police, Judges, Teachers, Financial Officers, Business Administrators, Managers, Sales Representatives