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Whenever you interact with strangers, there’s one question you’re guaranteed to be asked: “What do you do?”
While better than “Wanna see my rash?” it’s still not great.
The reason it’s troubling is because that’s become our cultural shorthand to assess who a person is. We do this with other people, and we do it with ourselves.
That’s because we, as a society, got hoodwinked. Somehow, we were convinced that we are our jobs.
That may be who we think we are, but is it who we want to be?
Whenever you interact with strangers, there’s one question you’re guaranteed to be asked: “What do you do?”
While better than “Wanna see my rash?” it’s still not great.
The reason it’s troubling is because that’s become our cultural shorthand to assess who a person is. We do this with other people, and we do it with ourselves.
That’s because we, as a society, got hoodwinked. Somehow, we were convinced that we are our jobs.
That may be who we think we are, but is it who we want to be?