The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine Aron

Author:Elaine Aron [Aron, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, Family & Relationships, Personality, Love & Romance
ISBN: 9780767903363
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2001-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

What Other HSPs Are Doing

Perhaps it would help to hear about the kinds of careers other HSPs have chosen. Of course, we bring our own flair to everything. In my telephone survey, I found, for example, that not many HSPs were salespersons, but one was—of fine wines. Another sold real estate, saying that she used her intuition to match people with homes.

One can imagine other HSPs shaping other jobs—almost any job—into something quiet, thoughtful, and conscientious, as when HSPs said they were teachers, hair stylists, mortgage brokers, pilots, flight attendants, professors, actors, early childhood educators, secretaries, doctors, nurses, insurance agents, professional athletes, cooks, and consultants.

Other jobs seemed obviously suited to HSPs: cabinetmaker, pet groomer, psychotherapist, minister, heavy-equipment operator (noisy but no people), farmer, writer, artist (lots of these), X-ray technician, meteorologist, tree trimmer, scientist, medical transcriber, editor, scholar in the humanities, accountant, and electrician.

While some research has found that so-called shy people make less money, I certainly found plenty of HSPs in positions that sounded well paid—administrators, managers, bankers. Maybe other studies found that their so-called shy respondents were poorly paid because of a quirk in their data similar to mine: Twice as many HSPs as non-HSPs in my study called themselves homemaker, housewife, or full-time parent. (Not all were women.) If you counted them as not earning money, this would certainly lower their income average as a group. But, of course, these people add income to their family by performing services which, if paid for, would be expensive.

HSP “homemakers” find a good niche for themselves, provided they can ignore the culture’s undervaluing of their work. In fact, the culture benefits greatly. Research on parenting, for example, continually finds the elusive quality of “sensitivity” to be the key in raising children well.

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