All posts tagged: Self Determination

A person uses a hand plane to smooth a piece of wood on a workbench in a well-organized workshop with tools mounted on the wall.

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.