OPM Disability Retirement: Return to Who I Am
We all take on different roles — whether as a parent, a husband, a wife; of assuming the role each day of a supervisor, a worker, a doctor, lawyer, etc. The underlying “substratum” of the “I” is presumed to remain the same throughout, but there may be a difference in the character posed, the personality posited or the tone, tonality and tenor of a voice, inflection, the way you talk, etc. Perhaps, on a “Take your child to work day” you bring along your son or daughter and he or she watches you work in a particular role. […]