How and why do people get their identities so wrapped up in their jobs? I like my job and I’m good at it; I do quality work. But to be perfectly honest, if I lost my job tomorrow it’d be nothing to me. The next day would just be another day, but with more free time.

Yes, it certainly helps to have money but I’m not talking about that. Even people who have adequate emergency funds etc. seem to have their entire character and being deeply enmeshed in their job. And I just can’t understand. I think watching my dad get laid off in the 1980s cured me of that right quick, and at a young age.