I was amazed at how close this was to describing me! 

The Thinker

You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can.

Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge.

Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat.

A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it.

You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor.

What's Your Personality Type?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourpersonalitytypequiz/

Here are the traits of an INTP that I felt matched:

• Love theory and abstract ideas
• Truth Seekers - they want to understand things by analyzing underlying principles and structures
• Value knowledge and competence above all else
• Have very high standards for performance, which they apply to themselves
• Independent and original, possibly eccentric
• Work best alone, and value autonomy
• Have no desire to lead or follow
• Dislike mundane detail
• Not particularly interested in the practical application of their work
• Future-oriented
• Trust their own insights and opinions above others
• Live primarily inside their own minds, and may appear to be detached and uninvolved with other people

Amazingly this is 12 out of 14 (86%)--how do they do that?

Possible Career Paths for the INTP:

• Scientists - especially Physics, Chemistry Yes!
• Photographers No
• Strategic Planners No
• Mathematicians Yes
• University Professors Yes
• Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts, Computer Animation and Computer Specialists Yes
• Technical Writers Yes
• Engineers Yes
• Lawyers / Attorneys No
• Judges No
• Forensic Research Yes
• Forestry and Park Rangers Yes