{"id":2548,"date":"2015-07-07T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2015-07-07T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:53:00","slug":"defining-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Defining Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=2547\" target=\"_blank\">issues with my immediate environment<\/a>, having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=2547\" target=\"_blank\">read the \u9053\u5fb7\u7d93<\/a>, I&#8217;m still trying to find some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcong.net\/?p=2546\" target=\"_blank\">inner-peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things at contention, is simply: &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221; It&#8217;s such a simple question, but how can you answer succinctly? Some people immediately identify themselves by their race, others define themselves by what they are NOT. What&#8217;s common though, is that most people define themselves by what they do. This gets confusing for me, because what I was occupationally, I am no longer.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqCr_3PDTps?start=4976&#038;end=5023\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn this line of work, the best thing is that you don&#8217;t have to think. Whoever needs to die, the time and place has already been determined by someone else. I&#8217;m a lazy person. I like someone else to lay things out for me. Lately, things have changed. I want to change this habit. I don&#8217;t know if this is right or wrong. But at least the person who has to make this decision is me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, when you switch careers, then naturally, you have a new identity. However, when you haven&#8217;t found that new career yet, what are you? Even if you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iseek.org\/mymncareers\/advance-career\/job-vs-career.html\" target=\"_blank\">job, it&#8217;s not a career<\/a>. So how do you identify yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Been thinking about this lately, and then I landed on <a href=\"http:\/\/kshep.net\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Sheppardson&#8217;s landing page<\/a>. It&#8217;s pretty simple. There&#8217;s definitely a man who has his career straight. He&#8217;s a programmer. That&#8217;s that. Doesn&#8217;t help me in my career change, BUT it gives me an idea on how to reduce what elements make me the person I am.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have any hard skills like he does. So what can I do? Or rather, what am I willing to do for hours on end, and not think anything of. I mean, the best I can say is I&#8217;m a consumer, but then, I can&#8217;t say that completely, because I&#8217;m not a consumer of material items. On this website, I&#8217;ve talked about food, music, movies, languages. So I&#8217;m a &#8220;consumer of culture&#8221;. How would I sum up my landing page then? For that matter, how can I sum up my career skills? Hm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent issues with my immediate environment, having read the \u9053\u5fb7\u7d93, I&#8217;m still trying to find some inner-peace. One of the things at contention, is simply: &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221; It&#8217;s such a simple question, but how can you answer succinctly? 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