In the late 1990s, Ellen Degeneres had a comedy show on television. The theme of one particular show focused on what a person does for a living and how it can affect you and the people you meet. Ellen portrayed a successful bookstore owner with a full business life but a somewhat unfulfilled personal life. Throughout the course of providing excellent customer service for a certain patron, a romance starts to develop between Ellen and a young man, so he asks her out on a date.

Of course Ellen is thrilled and goes home to tell her roommate and friends about this great guy who's asked her out. She can't wait for their date to begin until there's a knock on the door and she realizes that the Pizza Delivery Man is none other than her man. That's right, the one she just made the date with.

After embarrassingly introducing her friends to her future date, she takes the pizza, closes the door and tells everyone that it really doesn't matter to her that this potential boyfriend is "just a pizza delivery man. I mean, what's wrong with that and besides, he's probably moonlighting to make extra money. Or he's an aspiring actor. You know everyone in L.A. wants to be an actor. That's it. I'm sure he has huge hopes and dreams. Just like you and me."

Funny isn't it? How people latch on to jobs as an extension of themselves when in fact it should be the other way around. We tell ourselves it doesn't matter what we do for a living as long as we can pay the bills and have a little left over at the end of the month. We tell ourselves it doesn't matter that we're not exactly where we had planned to be in our careers at this point in our lives and we should be happy and content with what we have. For those in-between jobs, we say that doesn't matter because what you do isn't who you are. Right?

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