Many people identify themselves only with their jobs. It's like their whole life is revolving around that. Having a job is important, but making it your life is not. When someone gives an introduction about themselves they do not miss to mention about their jobs, especially if they are working for some very reputed company, which to an extent is right. But defining your job with your life is not right.

If you work for some big brand company automatically people start looking up to you with respect, then no matter whatever you are as a person. I some times do not understand this way of looking at people. It's not only about the job but also about the place you have studied. If you have studied in a good educational institution then automatically your value goes up. When you are on a job hunt also there is so much weightage given to the place from where you completed your education.

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All of these things may matter to an extent where skills and competencies are concerned but judging a person from their job and educational institution is a very fake way of knowing someone. When people retire from their jobs suddenly they feel lost, at the beginning stages they do not know what to do with their lives. This has happened to me at one point of time in my life, when I stopped working.

I could not imagine that my life could be normal without having a full time job, I was desperately hunting for a full time job, and felt so disoriented for around a year, it was only after that, my mind started settling down and I could believe that there were things to do in life beyond the job. I did pursue my passions all the while during the hunting phase but yet I kept feeling that something was missing, and that something was the full time job. In that time, I felt my security was with the job. Though now I do not have any such thoughts and feelings and if someone would offer also a job to me, I will refuse to take it.

I believe that this mental shift is important for all those who strongly identify themselves with their career and educational background.

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