In what ways can occupation and employment affect identity?
Title: In what ways can occupation and employment affect identity?
Category: Social Sciences / Sociology
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In what ways can occupation and employment affect identity?
"My name is Ettan Bazil. I am unemployed and living on
social security benefit payments"
"My name is Ettan Bazil. I am a university student
studying for a degree in psychology"
Both of these statements apply to me and both are true. As I look at them, each statement brings forth a particular emotion within me. I am inclined to sway towards the second statement, that is the identity I wish to portray, but I …showed first 75 words of 839 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 839 total…income, social standing, the way we see ourselves and the way we are seen by others are all hugely influenced by our occupation. These factors strongly contribute to the formation of our identities, and, in review of what I have written in this essay, I feel I must take my first two statements and combine them into the following:
"My name is Ettan Bazil. I am unemployed and will one day
be a successful Psychologist"
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