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Too often we tend to categorize people according to their profession.

Here is a popular text which answers with relevance to the famous question "what do you do for a living ?"

You have probably already noticed: you have been chatting for 2 minutes with a person you have just met.

And one of the first questions she asks you is "what do you do for a living?" Exasperating, isn't it?

Who has never been in this situation?

It's a bit like trying to to stick a label on his interlocutorr according to his profession ...

But just because you have a long CV doesn't mean you're a more interesting person than someone else ...

Fortunately, a person is not limited to his profession.

And when the fateful moment comes to answer this annoying question, we are sometimes caught off guard ...

To form an opinion on a person according to his profession and his social status is very restrictive.

And yet ... this question is more and more frequent and I find that it has the gift of making people uncomfortable!

Indeed, people who have chaotic or atypical career paths obviously find it more difficult to respond calmly.

On the other hand, those who have "made a career" in large companies by following a classic professional path can easily assert their brilliant diplomas.

But judging a person and forming an opinion based on his work does not make it possible to comprehensively understand the richness of his personality.

If it did, it would mean that before we started working we weren't newsworthy.

And that once you retire or face unemployment, disability or illness, you become an insignificant person ...

Which is obviously far from true!

"What do you do for a living ?" Here is a powerful answer

To answer this question, here is a text shared by Jungian Psychoanalysis on Facebook, which puts things in their place.

We do not know the author of this text but it was very successful. Here it is :

"And you, what do you do for a living?"

Who hasn't heard this question? When meeting a new person, at a dinner party, when meeting up with childhood friends, or while chatting with a neighbor.

"What do you do in life ?"

I always want to answer:

"Me? Oh in life, I walk around, I have fun, I learn things, I read, I admire nature, I communicate with people, I marvel, I enjoy, I LIVE, what ! ".

Yet I know well that the real question is "what is the profession you exercise?", As if our profession were our whole life, as if our professional activity was the first, if not the only criterion to define us.

So yeah, I know most people spend most of their time AT WORK, but I am not 'just' my professional activity.

Most importantly, I don't like labels. I don't like being put in a box depending on whether I'm a secretary, engineer, housekeeper, business owner or lawyer.

Especially since, behind this seemingly innocent question "what do you do for a living", there is often a need to compare yourself, to know what the other is worth in relation to oneself and also know how much he earns.

"It's pretty sterile to label people and squeeze them into categories." (Carl Gustav Jung)

You are not what you look like physically, you are not what you do, you are not what you have, you are not what others think of you ...

Let's stop putting people in boxes, to stick labels depending on whether you are skinny, fat, blonde, disabled, cleaning lady, senior manager, from a middle-class family, of foreign nationality, etc.

You are more than a physical body, a hair color, a nationality or a profession.

You are, above all, a spiritual being who has a human experience, with ideas, with dreams, feelings.

You are you.

Be fully that YOU without being locked in boxes, and without labeling the people you meet.

Otherwise, you miss out on their essence, their qualities.

And if not ... uh ... what do YOU, do for a living?

"Bah, I'm doing my best!"

Your turn...

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