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Celestial Traveler
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Is the professional self an alterego?
#23654108 - 09/17/16 08:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Recently I was daydreaming about what it would be like to be a salesman of some sort. I imagined listening to customers and speaking to them about a company's different products.
In reality I think I would hate being a salesman. For one, there would probably be times where I was trying to sell something that I didn't think was a good product myself. I'm a really bad liar, and I'm not sure if I would be able to sell things that I didn't believe in with a straight face.
But I have this sense that many people who are professionals might have an alter-ego that they put on whenever they are at work to help them fit into the professional role. Obviously there are codes of conduct, so there are certain things you can't do or talk about at work...but the amount of time that people spend in such an environment that forces them to restrict their behavior makes me think that they might have constructed an alter-ego that helps them endure this pressure.
Also, do you think that it is a necessary component of maturity/adulthood that one develops a professional alter-ego? And furthermore what about alteregos in general? It seems many adults have to be many different things to different people - a husband/wife to their spouse, a mother/father to their children, a coworker to their coworkers, a boss to their subordinates, a subordinate to their boss, etc.
So do you think developing multiple alter-egos is a necessary component of maturity or adulthood as well? Or is that something that is just a subjective, cultural standard of adulthood?
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Jokeshopbeard
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Post about how I would love to be involved in this discussion but since OP has me nigged I'll never be a true participant.
Cue sadness and depression.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Seriously_trippin
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Re: Is the professional self an alterego? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23654158 - 09/17/16 09:22 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes it is one of our many "faces"
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