Saturday, June 09, 2007

Personality and Profession



I don't know, is this the personality which chooses profession or is it the profession which changes people's' personality?

Let me explain

Being a physician, I have to dealt with various kind of physicians. Neurologists are dry, Surgeons are blunt and ruthless, Anesthesiologists are irritated, Ophthalmologists are mysterious... (I understand it's a generalization and a stereotyping)

Is it type of residency which change them or they choose specific speciality?..... anyway

And in real life, I found accountants - barren, businessmen - devoid of depth and computer geeks - too much of questioning....anyway

(I sincerely apologize if this post offended anyone...anyway)

3 comments:

Lazybones said...

IMHO we all play several different roles in our life time. How a person acts as a son is different from when he is a husband or a father. and again different when he is with a friend, neighbour or a co-worker.
Every profession or a particular job demands specific behaviour and people adapt themselves according to the demand of their job or profession. Some may adapt more easily than the others because they already have some personality traits required, others find it difficult.
But I dont think a profession completely changes our personality or that a particular personality is attracted towards a certain profession.

Just BTW, what kind of ophthalmologists you've been in contact with?

Suroor said...

And what's your opinion about professors? :)

mystic-soul said...

Suroor..I found professore loving but have tendency to supress call of heart, pleasures, joy by pushing intellect over it. Per Allama Iqbal

Achha hai dil ke paas rahe pasbane-aqal
Lekin kubhi kubhi is ko tanha bhi chor de


LBones - This is just a generalization. Its true we serve many roles in our life. No one is equal and every individual is different. I was just trying to look into the idea that how profession changes our personality..

But true we all as individual behave differently.