Our career shouldn't be ideally our identity

For many people, if you ask them "who are you", they'd probably respond with "I am (insert profession)". I would probably do the same.

That shouldn't be the case ideally. Our career is simply what we do, its a role we are playing. We do a lot more than our career, and our thoughts, ideas go a lot beyond our work. Our career is just an aspect of our life, yet it feels like its an identity. Part of it is probably because we spend a lot of our time at work, more than anything else . Part of it is because of our ego, which wants some identity for itself separate from others.

If we were to detach our identity from our career, we wouldn't be too affected by how we do in our career. For many people, career becomes a major source of stress, and even though their life is fairly good otherwise, due to career stress, they are not actually able to enjoy it