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Ronald McDonald just chased me thru the play place and I spilled my apple juice

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I’ve been thinking about identity recently. When you’re young and concious enough to think about identity, most often your identity is “student”. Your job is to learn. Same in high school and university, although around here usually you start adding a few more identities, but for the most part, you always retain that “student” identity, at least as a fallback. Join the workforce, your identity is your job title. Pick up a few identities along the way. Leave the workforce, you’re a retiree. I admit, this is a narrow minded view of identity, but I’m 21 and I can only speak to my own experience. I thought until at least 22 my identity would just be “student”. According to my hard-working immigrant parents, my job was to study. At 16, I started an e-commerce business that made enough to pay my college tuition. I was an entrepreneur. At 18, I started university but also joined the workforce 25 hours a week at Shopify. I was a software engineering intern. At 19, I left Shopify and school to

Ronald McDonald just chased me thru the play place and I spilled my apple juice Identity, ups and downs, caring a lot, new job and other updates Aadil Feb 26, 2024 31 15 1 Share I’ve been thinking about identity recently. When you’re young and concious enough to think about identity, most often your identity is “student”. Your job is to learn. Same in high school and university, although around here usually you start adding a few more identities, but for the most part, you always retain that “student” identity, at least as a fallback. Join the workforce, your identity is your job title. Pick u

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