The Work You Do, the Person You Are

I remember when I read this piece that Toni Morrison wrote for The New Yorker two summers ago. I started a job 4 months earlier and I hated it, I felt that I had no ownership of what I did from Monday to Friday and I questioned my worth as a person and was afraid that it might affect my career. Two years after I lost that job, I am looking forward for the day that I will leave my time there in the past. This article was useful two years ago and it is helpful and comforting today. This is what she said:

1. Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself.

2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you.

3. Your real life is with us, your family.

4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.

Here is another quote by her