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How work becomes who we are until it isn't

I worked at the same company for fifteen years and when they laid me off I realized I had no identity outside of my job title.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional identity can become so complete that its absence reveals an uncomfortable void underneath.

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