Sunday, January 15, 2012

What do you do?

"One of the first questions people often ask when they are introduced to one another in our society is 'what do you do?' This is more than just polite small talk -- it is an indication of the immense importance work has for us. Work gives us a place in the world, it is our identity, it defines us, and, ultimately, it confines us. Witness the psychic dislocation when we lose our jobs, when we are fired, laid off, forced to retire or when We fail to get the job we applied for in the first place. An unemployed person is defined not in positive but in negative terms: to be unemployed is to lack work. To lack work is to be socialIy and economically marginalized, To answer 'nothing' to the question 'what do you do?' is emotionally difficult and socially unacceptable. Most unemployed people would rather answer such a question with vague replies like 'I'm between contracts' or 'I have a few resumes out and the prospects look promising' than admit outright that they do not work. For to not work in our society is to lack social significance -- it is to be a nothing, because nothing is what you do."



From "Does Work Really Work?", by Susan Brown

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/brown/sp001735.html

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