Beyond our jobs
Many people identify themselves only with their jobs. It's like their whole life is revolving around that. Having a job is important, but making it your life is not. When someone gives an introduction about themselves they do not miss to mention about their jobs, especially if they are working for some very reputed company, which to an extent is right. But defining your job with your life is not right.
If you work for some big brand company automatically people start looking up to you with respect, then no matter whatever you are as a person. I some times do not understand this way of looking at people. It's not only about the job but also about the place you have studied. If you have studied in a good educational institution then automatically your value goes up. When you are on a job hunt also there is so much weightage given to the place from where you completed your education.
All of these things may matter to an extent where skills and competencies are concerned but judging a person from their job and educational institution is a very fake way of knowing someone. When people retire from their jobs suddenly they feel lost, at the beginning stages they do not know what to do with their lives. This has happened to me at one point of time in my life, when I stopped working.
I could not imagine that my life could be normal without having a full time job, I was desperately hunting for a full time job, and felt so disoriented for around a year, it was only after that, my mind started settling down and I could believe that there were things to do in life beyond the job. I did pursue my passions all the while during the hunting phase but yet I kept feeling that something was missing, and that something was the full time job. In that time, I felt my security was with the job. Though now I do not have any such thoughts and feelings and if someone would offer also a job to me, I will refuse to take it.
I believe that this mental shift is important for all those who strongly identify themselves with their career and educational background.
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Some times my life I used to do my best not to talk about my job, maybe I was kinda ashamed of it or something. Other times I would mention it casually not caring what peole might think. Now I think everyone, employed or freelancing or living their life in any way they want, have the right to be proud of themselves for going through everything life throws at them and not losing themselves.
True, whatever job we do if it makes us happy then it's worth doing. We do not work to impress others, we work either to fulfill our needs or passion, there is nothing ever to be ashamed of and it does not define us
I think it's a very superficial way of identifying ourselves, our jobs, for the most part, is the service we render or a duty of sorts. But beyond that, there's a whole aspect of who we are that doesn't always manifest in what we do. I think the transition is necessary, especially nowadays, where the concept of work is gradually changing.
Absolutely, getting hooked on to those titles and positions is such a shallow way of living life
You're really right Ma'am @nainaztengra I totally agree with you. Some people judge a person by their job, which is not a good mindset.
I think those who identify themselves with their jobs do that
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