[temp99990]

Increasingly very common? Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to.

I don’t agree with it at all, mostly because too often a job looks like a toxic relationship more than anything else, meaning you as an employee are expected to be fully emotionally invested in your work, while at the same time your company can fire you in the blink of an eye and not think twice about it.

[SketchySeaBeast]

I don't identify with my job, but absolutely with my profession. I'm a developer. Given the extreme level of specialization one needs to reach any heights in a profession, you kind of need to commit and go.

[manfredo]

> Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to.

Anecdotally, the young people I know treat employment as a transaction and recognize the lip-service to all the talk about how the company is like a family for what it is: lip-service. I associate this kind of emotional investment in employment with older workers, especially ones in union jobs where employment forms one's social and political community.