A Profession Is Not a Personality

[Race Jones]

A Profession Is Not a Personality

Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.

www.theatlantic.com

Just as our entertainment culture encourages us to self-objectify physically, our work culture pushes us to self-objectify professionally. Americans tend to valorize being driven and ambitious, so letting work take over virtually every moment of your life is concerningly easy. I know many people who talk of almost nothing besides their work; who are saying, essentially, “I am my job.” This may feel more humanizing and empowering than saying “I am my boss’s tool,” but that reasoning has a fatal flaw: In theory, you can ditch your boss and get a new job. You can’t ditch you

 

[Race Jones]

i know a few ppl on abw whose whole personality is centered around what they do professionally

:wtf11:

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

i know a few ppl on abw whose whole personality is centered on what they do professionally

:wtf11:

Names?

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

I know a chick whose entire existence is centered on what she does and what the ppl around her do

so fucking annoying

 

[Race Jones]

Names?

@Elzo69Renaissance

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

@Elzo69Renaissance

Lmao Shiiiiit y’all bring it up more than I ever do or did.... honestly I never talk about work outside of work... most ppl I know irl don’t know what I do for a living or where

 

[Disanthrope]

Names?

She talking bout dos lol

 

[Race Jones]

Lmao Shiiiiit y’all bring it up more than I ever do or did.... honestly I never talk about work outside of work... most ppl I know irl don’t know what I do for a living or where

how do we even know what you do for a living my friend if you havent brought it up on multiple occasions…..???

:tuh:

 

[Lab Baby]

"Title does not dictate behavior"

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

how do we even know what you do for a living my friend if you havent brought it up on multiple occasions…..???

:tuh:

Once in my ABW interview ....

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

She talking bout dos lol

And we don’t even know what HE does that’s the funny thing lol

 

[Rubato]

Y’all got jobs?

 

[Dwayne]

Not a big deal to me.

 

[ThaManMythLegnd]

Y’all got jobs?

Race is always promoting the unambitious and underachieving. Probably why she likes communism

 

[All_Might]

The unemployed are quite rowdy tonight:mhm:

 

[ChicagoFigure]

Imo it depends. If u just got in it for the cash or u just trying to survive then no.

But if u got a job for actual meaningful reasons related to your values it most def speaks to your personality at the very least.

 

[BRIAN B.]