How You Define Your Job: Self-Loathing or Non-Stop Interview Mode

This is a piece I wrote in 2010 within the first few years of college after noticing how so many of my fellow college graduates were doing a bad job at talking about their jobs

I went to a job interview and waited in a room with some other candidates as they were talking to each other about what they were previously doing in professional terms. I notice that people fall into two categories when you ask them what do they do: One is self-loathing and the other is people in non-stop interview mode.