Sometimes I let my vocation boss around my self-esteem.
When I’m satisfied with my work, I feel like a rockstar. When I’m working under my potential or my strengths and assets aren’t recognized, I can feel like a speck of lint.
I’m not what I do, but especially living in DC area, what you do seems almost more important than who you are. You start to feel this way when at parties you’re introduced as, “Sally the the Social Media Coordinator,” “Joe who works in public health,” or when, right out of the gate you’re asked “So what do you do?” Sure I’m guilty of this too. It’s a great conversation starter, but writer Cadence Turpin reminds us resumes are just paper, people are more than what they do, and she offers:
A Better Way to Introduce Your Friends at Parties
In an effort to continually remind ourselves we are more than our work, perhaps we should even start introducing ourselves this way.
Lindsey A. Frederick 