tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post112886137234938640..comments2024-02-22T04:07:33.179-05:00Comments on Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway: Work as Identity ReduxKeith "Nurse Keith" Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581947410641941224noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-51971795925900572232007-04-30T15:07:00.000-04:002007-04-30T15:07:00.000-04:00Thanks for the thoughtful discussion. Connected to...Thanks for the thoughtful discussion. Connected to this is positive organzational scholarship and how a positive-based framework can lead to finding meaningfulness in and at work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1129062288312810182005-10-11T16:24:00.000-04:002005-10-11T16:24:00.000-04:00Thanks for these two wonderful and thought-provoki...Thanks for these two wonderful and thought-provoking essays.Anvilcloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974744042579564912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1128909450366006612005-10-09T21:57:00.000-04:002005-10-09T21:57:00.000-04:00Thanks to you all for commenting. This issue does ...Thanks to you all for commenting. This issue does seem to strike a nerve with many people and I hope to revisit it again when the time is right and I have done some more thinking. Are there any blogs that address this issue specifically? Must do a concerted search....Have you found any, James?Keith "Nurse Keith" Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03581947410641941224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1128909120131935212005-10-09T21:52:00.000-04:002005-10-09T21:52:00.000-04:00A good article. Recently, I am wondering the quest...A good article. Recently, I am wondering the question of identity crisis in my working place. You article helps to to think about this issue!cHrIStinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07004125889645154551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1128905009576775262005-10-09T20:43:00.000-04:002005-10-09T20:43:00.000-04:00Broadly speaking there are said to be two forms of...Broadly speaking there are said to be two forms of identity: social identity where we are aware of the groups we associate ourselves with (e.g. I am 'x' kind of worker, father, brother, supporter of such a team, etc.), and, the categorised identity - where others put us into categories we are often unaware of until told of this decision. Work-related identity begins with categorisation, i.e. your job is to do this and this, etc. However, later on we associate ourselves more and more with a personal or peer-related interpretation of our given identity, i.e. my employer sees my role as 'x' but I see my role as being some of 'x' and something you add to it.<BR/><BR/>You also hit on ideas of what some call 'work-centrality' and the extent to which work defines not only our day-to-day life, but also how it shapes our identity and in turn, how we behave.<BR/><BR/>People who have a strong sense of their identity often won't act without the consent of their peer group (whatever or whoever this is). People who do not have a strong sense of identity have little loyalty to the social groups from which they belong - they often act without the influence of their peers.<BR/><BR/>Identity is a fascinating subject and well worth investigating - i.e. it explain a hell of lot about why we behave in certain circumstances in certain ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1128869536051843052005-10-09T10:52:00.000-04:002005-10-09T10:52:00.000-04:00oh yeah...and you forgot one in your list of self-...oh yeah...and you forgot one in your list of self-descriptives:<BR/><BR/>Friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246967.post-1128869416279185592005-10-09T10:50:00.000-04:002005-10-09T10:50:00.000-04:00What a wonderful, insightful, thoughtful, and deep...What a wonderful, insightful, thoughtful, and deeply thought/felt idea. Perhaps you could start a 'movement' in which we are no longer 'defined' by our jobs. however...'being' a writer is something i am always proud and eager to divulge, without the prequalifying 'just' inserted before it. when others ask, "what do you do?" I answer: I help people laugh. I enjoy watching the frustration in the face of the person asking the question as I am more adamant at evading their silly pigeon-holing questions than they are persistent in their wanting to know. I don't like enabling others to label me in their narrow-minded ways, and so i studiously evade their invasive prying with answers that are non-answers...at least as far as they're concerned. do i care? No. <BR/><BR/>In no other place are the citizens so bold and affrontive than america when asking such things. I've even been asked, quite rudely, I might add: how much do you make? <BR/><BR/>Did i answer that one? no. i simply laughed and walked away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com