While doing research for my book, Don't Fall In Love With A Corporation; It Can Not Love You Back, I have found that way too many of us idenitify ourselves by our careers.  What happens when you are impacted by corporate downsizing if your identity is that of your career?  Yes, I realize a professional can move on to another corporation and remain in corporate America, however what if that is not your desire?

What if you want to take the risk of not getting back into corporate America and start your own business?  How do you do that if you don't know what your identity is outside of corporate America?  Even family and friends identify us by what we do.  I'm known as the small town girl that left small town USA to "make something out of myself" in corporate America.  Some even call me "a wheel", which still cracks me up.

Leaving corporate America, no matter what the reason, can be a traumatizing event so it is my desire to be sensitive to those people as they find their new identities.  I would like to motivate others to believe that they can do better; that this situation can actually be a blessing.  The corporation is not the enemy, it is your catalyst!

So what is your identity?