Are You Your Job?

In his article, "American Identity Crisis: Are You Your Job?", Joe Robinson speaks of the danger of letting work become your identity. When we do this, we are slaves to our performance; to cease to work (whether through unemployment or retirement) can cause physical disease and death since to cease to work is to cease to be. Robinson says, “When your identity is dependent solely on the job, you’re conditioned to feel as good or as bad as your latest performance, your worth hanging in the bala...