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Podcast highlights:
- When you tell people that you are a professional, what that means is that the school prepared you for work that requires particular knowledge and skills. And you’ve spent so many hours to be a master of it. Being a professional also means that you are earning from that professional work you say you do.
- We’ve been so good at getting jobs done that we never got the chance to train ourselves to become confident in coming up with an idea or a project that we want to get done. We were so used to having other people dictate to us what needs to get done. And so, we end up clueless about what we should do to contribute to the society we live in.
- So, from dreamers and world-changers, we soon became practical people in the workforce who are now weighing between jobs based on how much money we can gain. And this is where some of us ended up being a professional for hire.
- Cogs in the machine: The prioritization of money and self-dehumanization, a study by Ruttan and Lucas (2018).
If you are just a professional for hire, you are just there for the transaction and to make that transaction happen.
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