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You Are Your Job
Life has shaped us to do our jobs in a weird, almost comical way.
We are entangled to our jobs, and keep doing it way after our office hours, not because we are scared to lose our job, but because we are so identified with it, and so engulfed in our work that it has become our identity, our purpose and the only ‘happening’ part of our lives.
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Jobs: Now
Technology and modern consumerism, coupled with peer pressure have created a perfect storm of our work dominating our lives in unheard-of ways. Securing and maintaining a high-profile job is not possible for the laid back slacker, trying to enjoy his weekends doing gardening the whole day.
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Jobs: The Early Years
Dialling back a couple of generations, jobs were just jobs, plain vanilla. No one liked working, but it was a compromise of 40 to 60 hours a week of stressful or boring work. Due to this, our parents could live their lives, enjoying with family in evenings, and weekends, celebrating special days,...
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An Arms Race
Our longing for a simpler living in the countryside remains just that, a longing. While we get exhausted and tormented by our constant piling of dollars and our giving unending hours to our work, we know we cannot simply stop.
It is like an arms race, and one can only collectively disarm, ...
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The Treadmill
The metaphorical treadmill keeps running and those who aren’t able to keep up, are thrown off.
- Those who are able to stay on the treadmill are rewarded well, and that keeps the thought of getting away from the rat-race even farther away.
- The communal environment, work relati...
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Work As An Escape
The working professionals that need to find everything in the job are also a product of a lack of community in the neighbourhood, with people living isolated lives.
This lack of harmony at our home and surroundings, has us seeking the same in our office.
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The Stockholm Syndrome
Our immersion to the never-ending rat-race and our readiness to exhaust ourselves constantly maybe just a version of the Stockholm Syndrome, where we have befriended the devil and optimized our miserable lives as it is paying us rewards.
We are hooked on to the pa...
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Leaving The Job You Spend Years In
Even if we are going to a better place, leaving a current job that you have worked hard on can be upsetting. This is because:
- Our job is tied almost exclusively to our identity.
- The people that we work with fill most of our lives.
- Quitting a job has negative connota...
Understanding another person's identity
We have to ask in what fundamental ways our own character have been shaped (for better or worse) by our work.
When we consider how work shapes a person, we should not be so quick to blame other people for the way they are. Perhaps their job has made them s...
Our job and identity
When we meet new people, we may be tempted to ask what they do. We use the idea that our identity is linked to what we do.
What's more revealing are the psychological requirements and consequences of jobs - the mindset the job creates and how it limits us....
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