Years ago, on a good nice day when i quit a job, and felt like i found my bearings, i looked up a page from Peter drucker's book and what he said was very appropriate at that moment.
"Unemployment causes unhappiness, not because of financial deprivation, but primarily because it undermines self-respect. Work is an extension of personality, an achievement. It's one way in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and humanity".
The question is whether your self-respect is so cheap, that you need your profession to define it. There are thousands of other ways to define oneself besides one's profession: One's personality, Interests, Opinions, Inclinations, Passsions, ability to convey and communicate, and so on.
How silly it seems when people make major decisions around a career, judge people by what they do for a living, choose people to mate with, insisting that they belong to a certain profession.
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