Joshua Ferris Quotes

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

A lot of who I am is in the work I do.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

Keeping your sense of self is important.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.