If you don't want your title or role to define you, then how do you define yourself? In fact, you can define yourself how you want. But you don't control how others see you. So what do you do? How should you introduce yourself without limiting how others see you?
Thanks, Louie. I think part of it has to do with how easy it is nowadays to get someone else to do something we have no experience in.
e.g. You don't have to fix your own toilet anymore as long as you can call up a plumber or find a local plumber on the internet.
In theory, I could outsource every aspect of video creation to one (or more) person on Fiverr. But, then, I couldn't claim to be video editor, script writer, and thumbnail designer. 😂
The internet also lets us see the most skilled professionals in many professions. From personal experience, sometimes I find it hard to think of myself in a particular role without a certain level of skill.
Am I really an editor? I guess so. I've peer-reviewed a fair number of newsletters, but I don't always feel like one because I know of so many more who are way more competent.
Love this essay Alvin. It is unclear to me how we ever got to such narrow definitions of who we are and what we do. But I don't like it.
So many of us have more than one interest and yet the corporate world somehow hijacked identity.
Thanks, Louie. I think part of it has to do with how easy it is nowadays to get someone else to do something we have no experience in.
e.g. You don't have to fix your own toilet anymore as long as you can call up a plumber or find a local plumber on the internet.
In theory, I could outsource every aspect of video creation to one (or more) person on Fiverr. But, then, I couldn't claim to be video editor, script writer, and thumbnail designer. 😂
The internet also lets us see the most skilled professionals in many professions. From personal experience, sometimes I find it hard to think of myself in a particular role without a certain level of skill.
Am I really an editor? I guess so. I've peer-reviewed a fair number of newsletters, but I don't always feel like one because I know of so many more who are way more competent.