Are you your job and nothing more?

What do you do? I’m a mechanic; I’m a horticulturalist. It’s the first question we ask others, and the way we define ourselves. What’s your job? A group of kindergarten students were asked to write down who they were. “I am a...” was the sentence to complete. At just five years of age, over half of the students saw themselves as a job - a policeman, a pilot, a hairdresser, a bus driver. Two children saw themselves as an animal – a snake and a dog. One was a speed camera (yes, yo...