Inside the strange, secretive rise of the ‘overemployed’::He was working three full-time jobs at Meta, IBM, and Tinder. His bosses didn’t know.

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not only has employment been the source of identity for people for thousands of years, it was reasonable and accepted for employment to be tied to identity. In some places, employment was tied to not just your identity, but to your extended family as well.

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        11 months ago

        Don’t know why you got downvoted. I mean, I’d have said “many” rather than “most”, but in principle this is true.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah many might be more technically correct. Surnames are usually either ancestral jobs, ancestral land ownership, or ancestral place of birth. I do feel like I see jobs more though. But i might be biased because that’s where mine falls under.