Guardians are interested in occupations that have to do with procedures for managing materiel and services, this is, for gathering, storing, recording, measuring, and distributing services, equipment and supplies. In jobs of this nature SJs are incomparable, for no other area of work is so well suited to standard operations and by-the-book procedures. Of course, Guardians come up with new ideas too, their creatively comes to the fore most easily in the areas of arranging and scheduling, and establishing order and organizations.

Optimal arrangement, requisite order, uniform size and substance: these notions are near and dear to Guardians, and perhaps this is why the find such satisfication in office work and clerical jobs -- keeping records, checking inventory, attending to correspondence, filing, accounting -- with the brightest becoming executives, adminstrators, plant or office managers, with the giants of the business world -- particularly in commodities, finance, from J.P. Morgan to E.F. Hutton, from J.C. Penny to F.W. Woolworth.

Excerpted from Please Understand Me II, by David Keirsey
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