The Face in the Mirror, the Person on the Page.
2003; Wiley; Volume: 47; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1936-2706
Autores ResumoWhenever I fill out my income tax forms I pause when I reach the little slot next to the signature that reads Your occupation. I ponder for a moment, as I seem to every year, about what to write in the blank: teacher, writer, professor, editor? All of those could apply, and I have used all of them in the past along with other designations at other times of life journalist, student, bartender. All of the labels are or have been true, but which one I choose implies a different set of qualities about my professional identity. (Though I am not so vain as to believe that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service cares in the least about these ruminations as long as I don't overstate my deductions.) The possibilities that occur to me for my tax return entry don't begin to exhaust the other words I might use to identify myself: husband, father, son, neighbor, reader, researcher, movie nut, hiker, guitar player, Quaker, dog owner, cook, and so on. Those labels all represent activities that occupy my time and attention, and certainly some, like being a husband and father, occupy more than my professional life.
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