Does your profession define you? Are we predestined to do what we do for a job?

Question

Doctors, Lawyers, Surgeons, Accountants etc seem to define themselves by what they do. Is it that they believe they were born to do this? Do we become our jobs or do our jobs become us? Id rather be a professional sportsmen than an office worker. Id rather have that as a dream but some of us didnt have the opportunity to carry the dream through....

Answer 1

As long as you fight off the belitlting effects of being narrowly defined by your profession you're showing sanity... and as long as you put your protestant dictated predestination aside you'll remain on the path to sanity.

Answer 2

I think Doctors are always Doctors. It's like a disease and they are all cheap and miserly. However, I have been a butcher, a grocer, a sporting goods store owner, an electrician, an EMT, an armed security guard, a boxer, a real cowboy, and computer systems analyst. I believe I an qualified to answer this question. I doubt if our jobs define us unless we are Doctors, Cops, Lawyers, or Accountants.
Excellent question.

Answer 3

I have one of the professions you listed. By the time you finish training in this profession, it is all you have. I AM my job because it's all I have left. That isn't true for everyone, but it's all I can do to go to work. I don't have energy for anything else after that.
I've had to move to another state for my job. It determines where I live, what holidays I get to celebrate, etc.
I AM NEITHER CHEAP NOR MISERLY.

Answer 4

People may well do things because they believe they were born to do them, but that doesn't make the belief true - just like a self-fulfilling prophecy. We all make our own way in the world, nothing is preordained or predestined..

Answer 5

i think one of the bottomline is still hard work, i just come across this article in the papers last nite and like to share with u, hope this help:

http://www.getbackontrack.org/content/booklets/theSevenLawsOfSuccess.htm