Work and Identity
Post-modernism may help in seeking to clarify work and identity: the values and state of being from the work we achieve.
Reflect on Ælfric’s Colloquy and the honor of supplying a service to community and conceptualize the most honored of skills. Then relay the change over time to a centeredness in life, a unity with nature - feeling natural - which could be a detraction from Euro-colonial identities to an indigenous American ideal, or even a modern European construct of Work Life Balance.
The older generation is always so proud of their work and remained in their jobs for long periods of time because of that intrinsically and contribution to society.