One of the finest freedoms in the journey of professional life is this: when your identity is no longer chained to your job title, your employer, or the office you report to. True liberation comes when who you are rises above what you do in a workplace. At that point, you begin to understand that your essence is larger than your business card.
Many are imprisoned by borrowed symbols—Chief Executive Officer, Senior Manager, or Analyst. These are important labels, but they are temporary markers in the seasons of professional life. They can be given; they can be taken. But when your personality is anchored on YOU, no company can define you. You carry your own “equity” into every room.
In my experience, the most successful professionals are those whose relevance is not tied to job titles. When people respect you because of your title, the day the title changes, you vanish. But when respect comes because of YOU the person, no restructuring or economic downturn can erase you.
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A lady deleted her profile here because she lost her CFO role in a popular fintech which was largely her life. Her life was this fintech and when the job disappeared, she literally could not continue without the associated “title”. That was unfortunate.
Good People, career liberation is resigning from dependence on job titles to shape your self-worth. It is about building depth so that, whether you are called “Intern” or “Chairman,” you remain the same person, delivering and commanding respect. That is the new wealth in this age—the wealth of identity, beyond the walls of companies and offices. When you attain this state, every organization becomes privileged to have you, not the other way round.
Become the definition of your career, not your job title, and through that have the greatest career liberation.
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