My thoughts on You are not your job: You are not your job
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- You are not your job
- Gold. Just sheer empathy and gratitude for the person writing. “You evaluate someone's warmth first to gauge their intent before ability”“The people who love you don't love you because you're good at your job. They love you because of something else entirely. Maybe it's your humor. Maybe it's that you actually listen. Maybe it's that you remember things about their lives and ask about them. Maybe it's simply that you show up. You're present. You don't extract a conversation and then disappear.”“The harder version is asking yourself: if my job title disappeared tomorrow, would I still be me? Would the people who matter still love me? If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place.If the answer is no - if your identity is not cleanly separated from what you do for money - your relationship to yourself may need an update.You are not your job. You’re a person first. Your ability to connect, be present, and make people feel understood is what makes you irreplaceable to the people around you, which is the only market that counts.”
- bangers after bangers. Really, I am framing this post. Its like a healing potion. A compass for life in tough times, such as the current ones.