Person 1: Hello, hey it was so great meeting you today. So, I meant to ask you earlier what do you do?
Person 2: …
Person 1: [kinda wondering why the hesitation]
Person 2: Oh I am a social entrepreneur [after thinking through a “made-up-fancy” title]
Person 1: [looking at Person 2 like “what 🤔, really?!?!”]
Person 2: [goes on to explain to Person 1 creatively what it means “to have no title” with fancy words in order to still appear at least somewhat intelligent]
Being an extrovert who loves meeting people, this kind of situation happened to me billions of times over these past couple weeks. I have become drained by societal context where I have to attribute myself a title. In these instances, I have been pretty creative: “supply chain professional”, “used to be a project manager”, “partner developer volunteer”, “social entrepreneur”, “in-transition”, [you name it] ? I have never been so envious of the title “oh I am a student”. And then finally yesterday I said nothing! [well, ok fine, maybe more like a “heu…” in a despair and confused manner]!
Obviously, I have none. I had to stop lying to myself at a point right! And it has been painful to realize: I am the “oh my I have no career or life title girl and 27 year old still believing she’s gonna change the world”. Delusional?! I am not gonna lie: many times it crossed my mind that I probably look like a failure justifying my state of no-titleness… meaning idleness. [Ohhhh and I am a millennial too, oh wait I probably have that millennial life crisis disease too?!].
All to say: yep no title people. As simple as being freed from any labels. I am “title freed”.
Sankey S.
Thinking My Feeling 
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve been there as well.
What do you do?
I…
Wake up every morning
Take a shower
Drink three coffees,
Sing while driving,
Sit from 9:00-5:00 pm
Check my Instagram account in between these hours
Spend most of my day in front of a computer
I don’t think your life differs much from those that remain ‘active’ in this Zombie-world, and if is actually different, kudos to you for challenging the status-quo of our ‘modern’ civilization!
I think the question people ask should be formulated otherwise:
Instead of asking : What do you do?
they should ask something more like:
-Tell me who you are?
Which could be answered with many or any of the following adjectives:
I am…
a citizen of the world, a serial hustler, a committed mother (or father), a passionate-badass blogger, an avid dancer, a crazy scuba diver… etc.
Yes, you have been set free from labels. You are now a free person!
Please don’t see this as something wrong. Just embrace it!
Jobs come and go. Freedom will always remain!
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Hello Jarabedepalo, thanks for sharing your heart. You are certainly right, freedom will always remain. Now on the road to fully embrace it…
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