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Another example:

Me: "When I am done this grad program, I am going to get an MA in Art Therapy".
Him: "So what's the plan with that?"
Me: "No plan, I can probably teach while in school so the tuition will be partially-free and it will be fun."
Him: "What are you going to do with that degree-how will it help you professionally?"
Me: "Probably nothing-it just looks very interesting."

He seems to want things to be stable, consistent and working toward a fixed goal or plan.
I feel like its an Ni vs Ne conflict.
Partially. There is also the thing with LSIs being one of the least stress/rapid change resistant types, while all the vortical-synergetic types thrive on chaos and rapid changes. So your natural inclinations will conflict there.

Then there is the Tactical vs. Strategic traits. EIEs are considered to be a strategic type by Reinin (as are LIIs). Strategic types try to direct their efforts into one continuous course, towards some kind of long-term (for intuitive strategists) or massive (for sensing strategists) goal. Tactical types for the most part do whatever, only because it's within their immediate reach and satisfies some short-range aims or needs, sometimes that need being simple fun, but this also comes at a risk of scattering their time and efforts over the long run. He's basically asking you if you have a game plan (something like this thread).