12/9/24 Does Your Job Define You?!

I had a random thought this morning. And it goes something like this. Does your job define who you are as a person? I can tell you in my line of work, it definitely does not. I think you can tell from my blogs that the sum of the parts of me does not add up to equal escort ! There’s so much more to me and I’ll bet there is so much more to you than what you do. Or, are you a workaholic who takes more gratification in their job than any place else in their life? If so, I feel sorry for you. I often ask men what they plan to do in retirement and often I hear that they do not plan to retire. They don’t feel they have enough that they can do in their life to retire from an occupation that keeps them busy, probably keeps them alive, and one that they love.

In 2024, I have come to see that being social and having hobbies is very important, at least to me. Before a few months ago, I mainly just worked and occasionally got together with friends, went to St. Louis to see my mother and my sisters. But I really didn’t do much out of the house, and I constantly lamented it. Now I’m going to a weekly meet up where we play adult board games. I’m still going to the Timeleft dinners, but those haven’t been as much fun as the meet ups. This month I’m planning on going to a new meet up where we’re going to discuss Trump’s promises. I thought that was really interesting. I’m also going to go to this thing called Skip the Small Talk. At this, you have questions to answer and you talk to strangers and it’s monitored by professionals. I haven’t been yet so I will report back. I believe I found it through the Meetup’s website though. I seem to also be doing more out calls lately that get me out of the house.

So no, I don’t let my occupation define who I am. I have at times, struggled with being a homebody. And I still have to make myself get out of the house on occasion. But the difference is now I look forward to making myself get out.I just think it’s important to have hobbies and activities outside of work. And that doesn’t necessarily mean doing other work unless it’s a hobby of yours.