Does anyone else feel a wave of inadequacy when scrolling through their LinkedIn feed?
For me, it’s the professional equivalent of dragging my flabby ass into a Maxx Fitness Gym full of fitness junkies and muscle heads.
Are these people for real? Doesn’t anybody just work a crappy job to pay their bills anymore?
When did we become our jobs?
Are there really this many passionate professionals who love what they do – or are most of us just playing the game?
For me, it’s difficult not to feel like a fraud when I post about work because I am not my job.
My job is a taxing and challenging endeavor to endure. I work hard at it to keep a roof over my head and food on my table and grow my savings so that eventually I can get the fuck out.
LinkedIn is an advertising agency for the self – where we all try and keep up with the Joneses and match the energy of everyone that’s on the platform saying how proud they are to be part of a company or industry or technology and what a positive experience working for company x has been and how they can’t wait for the next exciting chapter in their career.
When you’re in the gym next to a guy like this, you immediately throw an extra 25-pound plate on the bar because you don’t want to look and feel like a failure.
It’s fucking exhausting.
I can’t wait to retire.
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