You’re Not Your Job. Fine. Now What?
It usually happens in a very ordinary moment. Someone asks what you do. At dinner. On a train. Between two meetings. You answer almost automatically, but not quite. There is always that tiny pause before the sentence lands. »I’m a lawyer.« »I’m in health care.« »I’m a carpenter.« »I work in marketing.« It sounds like a small difference. It isn’t. Because in that moment, you are not just sharing information. You are revealing a relationship to your work, and maybe to yourself.
