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Blog Post: Identity theft?
posted Friday, June 5, 2009 12:35 PM
If you're like most people in our modern society, you're doing the best you can to attain or maintain a successful identity based on what you DO in your work and your career. Your career is typically what you use to identify yourself in your social life when you meet someone new and they start asking you questions. Usually, "What do you do" is one of the first questions, right? That's because others will most often use your career to identify, classify, and remember you.
"Allan... oh, yes! Allan the Accountant! I remember meeting him at that conference last month. I have his card somewhere in my files..." Nothing wrong with that. You probably want others to understand and remember what you do for a living in case they need your services or products. In many parts of the world, we are well accustomed to living in a consumer-based economy and trading consumables - like Allan and his accounting services. In your personal life, however, your identity is much more complex. All kinds of problems can arise when you forget this valuable fact and depend on your career as your main identity. Especially today, you could be at risk for a serious case of "identity theft" when your job ends or your industry shuts down and forces you to change careers. Then - WHO ARE YOU? You'll need to find the answers in order to reassemble the pieces of your identity and move forward. Life Coaches know that you are much more than your career identity. They can help you revisit your unique personal identity (including your many talents, strengths and possibilities) which you may not have thought about for a long time. When you focus on who you are inside as a unique individual, the inevitable changes in your work life no longer have the power to steal your identity. ---- Gayla Doucet's career identity: Certified Creative Life and Talent Management Coach (International Coach Federation) and a member of the Phoenix Chapter of the ICF. Find her at People Powered Solutions LLC (www.pplpowered.com), LinkedIn, or ZoomInfo. (c) People Powered Solutions LLC 2009
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Given that the average person will have between eight and ten jobs during their lifetime, if the identity is determined by the job, this means several identity “thefts” over the working span; a trauma most of us will have difficulty facing.
Solution? I’m sure there are several, but most important is to establish an identity removed from the job, and protected from this type identity theft. Establishing such an identity requires that one knows oneself, the good and what needs improvement, personal values and motivations, and recognizes that true identity is found in the self, not in the job.