The department director was asked the difference between the young people who started out in his department versus those who started with one of his rivals.
"They're exactly the same," he said. "But if you check them in five years, you'll find that they are very different. For example, the ones who start in [the other department] have eyes that are closer together."
Humor aside, he had a point. Jobs shape us. Although our usual practice is to consider what we are getting out of the job, we should also what the job is getting out of us.
We see others who have jobs that cause them to become cynical, hard, indecisive, or arrogant and know that the most insidious aspect of that transformation is they don't recognize the change.
Why are we immune from such changes?
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