The Mental Shift
Think of jobs as verbs, rather than nouns. So, for example: I do journalism, rather than I’m a journalist. Or: I do youth education, rather than I’m a teacher.
It is a mental shift that can help to disentangle who you are as a person from how you spend your days to make money for rent and groceries.
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