This seems to be another case of the "identification-with-job" problem. And while I agree with Chuck's point that humans should not identify so strongly with th

This seems to be another case of the "identification-with-job" problem. And while I agree with Chuck's point that humans should not identify so strongly with their employment, it's clearly the norm. Both self-identification and other-identification: cf. the popular cocktail party question "what do you do?"