It’s sort of weird when people ask me where I work. I feel like the character Robin Scherbatsky, in How I Met Your Mother, who struggles with her identity as a Canadian living in America.
After feeling like a woman with no country..., the LA Times reports on the episode, Robin decides to become a woman with two countries and get dual citizenship. Lovers of Canada jokes, rejoice.
In this case, I am without company. No longer at Company Z, and I suppose without an “identity”.
If this is you, don’t let it get you down. Our jobs do not define us. They are one facet of who we are – even though I know that it sometimes feels like 90% of who we are. In a first world country where our principles used to be “work to live”, it’s gotten to the point where we work day and night to live and forget that we are really just surviving – not living.
For me, I am really okay with my no-company identity. Like Robin who decides to be a dual citizen, I feel that I have at least two (if not more) professional identities. I am first and foremost invested in my family. I’m a co-parent and partner to my husband. I’m a mom to my beautiful children. (And sometimes a chauffeur or servant to them!) And the dual part to this is my secret identity as a Covert agent. This is my real ‘dual’ identity!
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