There's something about what we do for a living that gives us a label, a convenient mechanism for categorizing, a shorthand way to determine where this person fits in the grand scheme of things, what weight their words will carry, how much value they have.
To name something is to limit it, to corral its possibilities. Once defined, a person faces a sisyphean task in remaking themselves, at least in the eyes of others. Maybe to themselves as well.
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