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Aug 23, 2011, 09:42 AM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,100
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Originally Posted by SpearOfTheLance
I've always wondered about this so wanted to get some opinions from the user base out here.
I've sort of had a dual personality when it comes to 'work me' and 'life me'.
When I am at work, I'm very serious, no nonsense kind of guy. I hardly show any emotion and just work and do my job and go home type of guy. I do talk to people of course, but it's more all business than say I was out w/ my wife or buddies. I've heard people say I'm a boring guy at work, or too serious, or one of those old fashioned nose to the grind type of workers.
At home, I am much more looser and very easy going and as others describe 'more fun'. If I run into someone at work on the weekend, they are always surprised at my 'non work' personality and like 100 percent of the time they say 'I never knew you had this side to you' or 'How come you're not like this at work'. And I make it a note to them that I DONT talk about work outside of work.
I know where I get this from, it was the way I was raised. My dad basically told me at work it's all business and no goofing off, and once you get home, do whatever you want.
That's why my response to the 'I never knew you had this side to you' is always, well this is 'THE REAL ME', not the 'WORK ME'.
Does anyone else do this? Sort of be a different person at work vs home? Is this normal behavior?
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Spear, I'm pretty much a "what you see is what you get" kind of person. I am who I am where ever I am. At the same time I have the same kind of different behavior you have between work and personal life. By virtue of what I do (work with teens at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system) I keep my personal and professional lives totally seperate.
Every time I've taken one of those tests to see if a person is Type A or Type B I come out sitting right in the middle. One day I analyzed the questions. When I seperated the work vs personal life questions I am solidly Type A at work and completely Type B in my personal life. I don't see it as being two different people. I see it as letting different aspects of my personalit come out in different situations.
For me the bottom line is that if what you're doing works for you and doesn't hurt anyone else - go for it!
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