Who are you?

[sobrique]

One of the questions I've been thinking about recently, is the evaluation of 'who are you'.
How would you answer, if confronted by it by someone you don't know, at ... some arbitrary social occasion (e.g. not one where you'd answer in terms of your relationship to the hosts, such as a wedding).

What makes you who you are? Me, I think I have a large part of that as being my job. I define a lot of who I am, by 'what I do', and so ... when faced with incipient redundancy, that leads me to question that gap a lot. On one hand, I guess.... well, I've always been quite career minded and ambitious. I define a lot of my 'worth' by that.

So ... well, how would _you_ define yourself? The answer obviously has many facets, but ... what's the biggest thing that makes you who you are?

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[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

I am very much defined by my job a lot of the time, to the point where my job title is used as a form of address at work (I don't think this happens in many jobs), as in 'Doctor, please come and take some blood/look at this X-ray/make the tea'. It's complicated by the fact that I don't really hold that title yet, not until next year when finals are over (I hope!) but a surprising number of people use it despite that fact.

If I'm defining myself, however, there's a lot more to it than that. I'm a Northern girl (and I know I'm not very far north, but in Nottingham if you're north of the Trent that's a big part of your identity), a musician, a geek, Jane's daughter, Alan's fiancée, a Warwick graduate, a jewellery-maker, and, yes, a medic.

I'm also a sleepy person, and I'm going to bed.