How Work Affects your identity
A Life / / December 19, 2019
"What are you doing?" - this is one of the first questions we ask when meeting people. It is believed that the work of man can tell a lot about the it. However, a lot more about a person can learn by asking what character traits and a way of thinking requires his profession and how work affects his normal life.
Ask a question about what people have to face at work, you can get very different answers.
The dentist says that he constantly has to deal with excuses and flabby. Adults serious people cancel the appointment, citing the lack of free time, and when still find themselves in chair, lying about how well they used dental floss, and break all the promises made in the past time. Education 'big kids' dentist makes strict.
Legal Counsel responded that he daily faced with aggression and impatience of its customers who want everything to be done yesterday. Nobody cares about the personal lives of others.
Sound engineer says that problems arise unexpectedly and continually, but to be careful and act methodically, the decision there appear. If there are seven possible causes of the problem, you just need to check each of them. Technology in general are good that in this area everything is arranged logically.
That the work changes in us
All trades can be classified depending on which features of human nature, they strengthen and weaken.
- Patience and irritability. Do your job teaches to focus on what is happening here and now, and what will happen in a few years, considered unimportant (news editor, nurse-nurse)? Or it makes you think in the long term (aeronautical engineer, inspector of the power of supervision)?
- Suspicion or trust. Which of the senses sharpens your job? You are in an environment where people keep a lot to yourself or use the direct False (Journalist, an art dealer)? Or do you work with people who do not hide the fact that they are concerned about (the therapist, the air traffic controller)?
- Speculative or specifics. At work, you are focused on how things could be, or what they really are? Do you pay attention to what all the other people do not attach importance (scientist, poet), or you pay for the attentive relation to purely practical details (roofer, supplier of fresh fruit)?
- Search consent or independence. Some professions are taught the ability to come to a consensus (the teacher, organizer of festivals) others highlight the personal opinion or an unusual perspective on familiar things (coach, businessman).
- Optimism or pessimism. The work calls for you to find the positive side and perhaps smooth the disadvantages (marketing, personal coaching) or produces habit primarily pay attention to the dangers and mistakes that can lead to trouble in the future (lawyers, accountants)?
- Focus on profit or detachment from the financial issues. Is the working environment and the status of your focus on money and profit (commercial agent assumes, CEO), or it is possible not to attach importance to every day (Researcher, teacher)?
- The fragile condition or status of a reliable. Artists often fail: the work in which they have invested all their soul, may be underestimated or even completely ignored. Even if they are good at what they do, the commercial success and the recognition of society is not guaranteed. While other professions involve a good reward, for example, qualified IT-specialist will find high-paying job.
- Best and worst aspects of life. Some professions at all times remind us of the value of life (obstetrics, nursing). In other areas people are increasingly facing the worst aspects of human nature (the police, family law).
- Strict hierarchy or accidental promotion. In some professions, the conditions that are required to move up the career ladder, are known in advance and logical (pilot, teacher), in others career much more depends on the case and connections (television, politics).
- Jobs vanishing or growing industry. There are activities, the golden age which is already in the past. Work in the fields are probably not as interesting as before (book publishing, broadcast television). And there is a new industry with high profits and the explosive growth (social media, technology). You work with people who feel they can conquer the world, or are among those who understand that the world has already defeated them?
The essence of the changes
Staying in a certain psychological environment every day has a huge impact on our habits and way of thinking for many years. It affects how we perceive people, determines our outlook on life and gradually changing ourselves. Everything that we do in the workplace extends to the rest of our lives.
Usually we think that this happens somewhere else and with someone else, but not with us. We are aware that the views of the French aristocrat in the XV century were predetermined strict social hierarchy and the ethics of the warrior, and hard work and a constant battle with the elements significantly influenced the outlook of the inhabitants of the Scottish fishing village in the XIX century. However, we are not much different from them. It is much more difficult to notice what is happening to us as our own views to us seem completely natural and only true, but it is not. See it will meet with a foreigner or a person with a completely different from your occupation.
Sometimes we can see the effects of work per person. If you ask a lawyer what will be the car 20 years later, he was surprised: why bother to speculate about something unattainable now? Technologies may develop quite unpredictable, but in 20 years will be the courts, laws and jurisprudence. And we will look at all of this, when the time comes. And if you ask the academician, how much he earns in an hour or how much profit earned his latest discovery, it is certainly your questions deems inappropriate.
We know that the way of thinking of people in the work environment can also be seen in their behavior in everyday life. Primary school teacher sees his children as a student, teacher, accustomed to lectures, is usually is the main talker at dinner parties, and policies are unlikely to resist the order to deliver a speech on wedding.
However, this is all just the tip of the iceberg. The impact of the work is noticeable in many other cases.
- Technicians are very calm and perceive life's problems as well as technical problems, which they face at work. They believe that most problems can be sorted out, if you do not panic and methodically through all possible solutions.
- TV producers have fragile self-esteem. They are very aggressive when they feel they are at the top, but quickly change the behavior, realizing that the situation is not in their favor.
- Dentists like to command. They so often chastises men for their weakness, that it becomes a habit.
- Freelance writer who constantly have to adapt to the requirements of customers, getting used to the feeling that they are misunderstood and underestimated.
Good and bad influence
Job may well affect humans. Attitude, acquired in the work environment, often fills gaps and cultivate the qualities that people would not be able to develop on their own. In the office, where speed is important and punctuality, One-track and frivolous person usually becomes more collected. And the environment in which compromise is part of the working process will be extremely useful for people who consider their own opinion extremely important.
However, the operation has and Negative influence. When a person has a certain fixed way of thinking and targets all different from this it is gradually being replaced. School administrators can be very good in the selection of personnel and solving organizational problems, but the question "What is the global goal of education?" Will put him in a deadlock.
Similar questions can be very painful for many of us, because once again remind us of what we had to give up in order to focus on a particular job. Having spent most of his life a particular case, we are not able to devote enough time to other, potentially less intriguing things.
Remember how we work is changing - it is to be forgiving toward others. Perhaps this work has made them nervous, aggressive or boring. Catching up with something else, they probably would have been very different people.