{"id":829,"date":"2018-12-21T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeroniche.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:03:59","slug":"you-are-not-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/you-are-not-your-job\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not Your Job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Don\u2019t attach your self worth to your job.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Just because you earn more than someone else doesn\u2019t mean you should be happier than they are. And, more importantly, it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re better than them. The money you make in your job has no real reflection on your worth as a human being. Just look at any wall street banker.&nbsp;<\/li><li>I have talents, interests and things to say that have nothing whatsoever to do with how I make a living. I\u2019d prefer to talk about those things.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Asking me what I do is the same as asking me how I trade my time for money&nbsp;<\/li><li>If you love your job, I admire you. Truly. But don\u2019t feel the need to emulate your path.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Most of the jobs we do didn\u2019t exist a hundred years ago. All of the jobs we do didn\u2019t exist a few thousand years ago (taken to the extremes, we don\u2019t even hunt or farm in the same way as before).<\/li><li>People that can\u2019t decide what \u2018to do\u2019 with their lives at 40 are no less clued into life than those that choose \u201cwisely\u201d at age 17.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Most people hate their jobs. This is a fact. When we attach out personal values and worth to something we dislike we create a negative feedback loop.<\/li><li>Psychologists often talk about how humans are happier when they are busy, productive, and have meaning in their lives. People often think that means having an important job. But you can be busy, productive, and live a meaningful life when you're unemployed, super rich, or even when you shun work completely.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.<\/p><cite>Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t attach your self worth to your job.&nbsp; Just because you earn more than someone else doesn\u2019t mean you should be happier than they are. And, more importantly, it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re better than them. The money you make in your job has no real reflection on your worth as a human being. Just look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"You Are Not Your Job","_seopress_titles_desc":"Don&#039;t attach your self-worth to your job, and other rules for living in this status-obsessed, materialistic world. Be yourself, not a category!","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,13],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithjlang.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}