In the Real Wolrd

Experiencing new things are often scary. If we could, we would all stay in our comfort zones but if you want to move forward in life you must take risks. When taking those risks you come to a point where you have to find a different identity and act. Why act? you might be asking yourself. Well let me answer that for you.

When you enter a new job you are an actor. You come in portraying to be someone you are not, just like in Halloween. We create this fake character of ourselves where we fake to be comfortable in the current situations that we might be in at work.

It’s very hard to start a new job and show your true colors right away because you can come off too strong and everyone will start to hate you and no one wants that in their new job. You know what they say, first impressions matter. So you must act like the nice, quiet fake person you are when you are around new people.

Also, you need to be confident on what you do and say to not let your cover down. You must have authority like Elizabeth Wardle mentions in “Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces." In other word you must be secure of what you communicate because communication matters and can lead you to “command not just the attention but confidence, respect and trust of your audience.” Once you have gain their attention and trust with your authority you can little by little let go of your fake self and show who you really are but in the mean time you must stay in the down low.

I’m not looking forward to this when I graduate from SDSU and get my first real job. I like showing who I am but I know I can come off too strong with my brutal honesty and my dry humor. Maybe that’s why I only have like 3 friends.

I will not only have to change the way I carry myself but also the way I speak. My language will have to be more professional and educated. I have to be smart about my choice of words and the way I express them but yet have the authority to gain the trust and respect of those who will be my new coworkers. I’m going to have to try and fit until I make it.

Although I’m going to hate doing this, it is a process we all have to go through in life.

We have to keep in mind that this is all just temporally. It’s a part we play in life and it happens so often that we should be used to it and embrace it I believe. It becomes our daily life practice.

We do this when we communicate for the first time with strangers. For example, when we go out shopping we act defiantly with the associates as we would if we were talking to our friends. Same thing when we go to a restaurant, meet new friends or join a group like a community practice.

It’s just like we have been talking in class since day one. We must adapt ourselves to many different situations. You must act the way it is expected to act, speak the way it is expected to speak and behave the way it is expected. At the end of the day it will all be worth it because in doing so you will most likely achieve what you are perusing. You know what they say, fake it until you make it.