Don’t Waste Time Defining Yourself

Rishi Kara
Betterism
Published in
5 min readOct 11, 2020

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The moment you graduate from college, the first question you get asked when you meet someone new is — “So, what do you do?”.

How a person makes money is an integral part of how he or she is defined. For me, this meant saying, “I am a software engineer”. But every time I uttered those words it felt like a lie. After four years of studying computer science and landing my dream job as a software developer…

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Rishi Kara
Betterism

Writing about creativity, resistance, day jobs & purpose