Is your occupation what you do or who you are?

neodude said:
Here...

10-edinburgh-airport.jpg
Click to expand...

cool. ive probably spoken to you then, although i am based in glasgow so it wont be every day
 
I guess i like computers, spend most of time on desktop pc and i work in IT. So maybe i am my job. But i work at law firms and i don't like lawyers that much, also not a fan of certain enterprise technologies, like MS exchange. Which i am forced in to using.
 
No1newts said:
I work to live, luckily I enjoy my job and don't mind shifting things to incorporate work, but ultimately if it came to the crunch work would lose every time.
Click to expand...

I work to live and shut off my work at half 5, however even if I became a shop assistant I would still stand on a beach and stare at a cliff or look at ripple patterns in the sand and think about the processes. Nothing to do with my job but everything to do with being what you enjoy. Almost every geologist I know is the same, including those that haven't "done" geology since they graduated and don't work as one. :o

How do you know someone is a geologist, their house is full of rocks... Sure there are plenty of other occupations like that!
 
A bit of both I would say.

I'm a graphic designer so I constantly see the world through that prism but I try and isolate my work and social life as much as possible.
 
What I do. I'm not fussed about money, or having the big fancy car, or any of that crap any more, because it's all pointless.

I just get by and enjoy myself where I can, I can't envisage a career where I'll be happy in practise, only in theory.

When the clock hits I'm gone regardless, and I don't take my work home with me. Some people do, it's silliness, man wasn't supposed to live like that.
 
Always wanted to own/run my own business as I never liked working for somebody else. So.......I own and run my own business. It has to be something you are passionate about and where you can inspire others, it's nothing to do with the money (that comes as a bi product of inspiring others).
I like having happy employees, that care about their careers and strive for more, not ones that want to 'clock out at 5pm on the dot'.
 
I'm a virologist. Recently finished my PhD and a year into a post-doc.

I love what I do, so it's not something I'd really want to leave behind in any case. I work fairly long hours, but I'm always thinking of work and ways around particular problems. I do a lot of sequencing and genome assembly as well, so a lot of the stuff I mull over is programming. I have 4 projects running in semi-parallel at the moment and I'm supervising an MA student for a few months, so it can get pretty hectic at times, but that's fun.

Given that it never really leaves my mind for very long at any one time, I guess my job does define me to an extent.
 
My job title is Fraud Analyst and it's what I do as i'm on the phones 95% of the time. It's an in between things type job for me, it pays OK though.

I could try to progress to a team leader or management position but I can't see myself being happy doing that for the rest of my working life.
 
My job is 24/7. Could get a phone call in the middle of the night with an emergency. Being an owner of a company means the responsibility of running it after 5pm. Not easy, but if then again if it was everyone would be their own boss...

Rewarding in numerous ways though.
 
I'm a menial, so my job is what I do and not who I am. Unfortunately it does now "pervade your every day life" because I have to work on demand. Any hours, any day, check daily for whether you're working tomorrow and if so what hours. It's alleged that rotas are set for 4 weeks (you still have to work on demand, but the demands are given for 4 weeks in advance) but that doesn't happen and in any case all rotas are always subject to change without notice and therefore don't mean very much.

So I can't make plans for anything and I can't have any regular activities. In that sense, my job does indeed pervade my everyday life. I wish it didn't. I'm just a low-grade servant doing menial work for minimal pay. It's not important and it shouldn't pervade my life. It never used to, back when we had fixed hours.
 
I work in pensions, and I'm fully invested in the the need to save for the future competing against changing demographic and social change, as both can easily be seen in the fabric of every day society. However, my role within this industry is marketing and PR and so the interest extends outside of saving. I look at the behavioral direction of advertising, whether pension related or not, and the articulation and delivery of media spokespeople, especially politicians.

Both the subject matters and the disciplines of the functions interest me enormously, and I see neither as a burden. I'll take interest in a politician talking about benefits and retirement as much as I enjoy looking at a TV advert for cosmetics or any subject, looking at how they aim to engage with the target audience.

I think part of it is how much you enjoy your job and your profession within it, and part how much you invest / believe in your subject matter. It is a special skill if you're able to be a high achiever in one or the other or both and still be able to segregate them from your other activities.
 
IT Support Manager for a bank... well actually I've done it for many banks now.

It used to be the case that it was part of who I was. But nowadays I feel my personality influences the way I work far more than the other way around.
 
It used to be that what I do was a big part of who I was and work tended to expand and merge into my life outside work ...

... but that got to a point where it couldn't continue and now whilst I enjoy aspects of my work I also leave it completely at the end of the day (much to the annoyance of my management).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom