More Than A Job Title — Reclaiming Your Worth Beyond The 9 to 5
In a culture that often measures worth by output and visibility, this piece offers a gentle reorientation toward what exists before any role or title.
You’re here and that matters. Take a deep breath.
Life is shifting quickly. Structures are changing. Productivity is being demanded at an unsustainable pace, all while we’re asked to hold families, emotions, creativity, and uncertainty with grace.
This space is a pause from that noise—a place to remember something essential.
There’s a quiet ache many creatives, artists, intuitives, and heart-centered entrepreneurs are carrying right now. If you’ve felt it, you’re not imagining it—and you’re not alone.
Here’s the cultural misconception we inherited. ↓
Somewhere along the way, we were taught to attach our worth to what we do.
And honestly—how can we not? The system rewards visibility.
Titles, productivity, and usually the loudest voices in the room are rewarded. Those roles are celebrated, compensated, and spotlighted. Names get printed everywhere. Over time, it starts to look like this is what value is.
Achievement and leadership deserve recognition—but what often goes unseen are the supportive forces:
The builders
The creatives
The mentors
The intuitive thinkers
The steady hands shaping the whole structure behind the scenes
When those contributions aren’t named, financially rewarded, or applauded, something subtle can happen. → We begin to doubt ourselves—not because our gifts lack value, but because they aren’t always publicly acknowledged.
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🌿 Let me say this clearly and gently:
Your job does not create your value. Your value precedes the job.
Roles and structures are containers. You are the essence that expresses there. Your wisdom, discernment, creativity, emotional intelligence, and lived experience existed before any title—and they remain when a role ends.
This is why separating identity from occupation matters now more than ever. When your sense of worth is fused to a structure, it collapses when that structure changes. And many structures are changing.
When a role ends, your essence remains—and it seeks a new form of expression. That quiet ache many feel right now isn’t failure. It’s an invitation for realignment. Your gifts don’t disappear when a structure does.
Your gifts move with you. They are portable.
🪶 Intuitive Writing Prompts:
Where am I contributing in ways that don’t get counted, but deeply matter?
Where have I been measuring my worth by what the system can see, rather than what I consistently bring?
📍 More Than A Job Title — Here Are Some Helpful Reframes
To help keep your value anchored where it belongs, here are a few gentle reframes you can return to when the ground feels shaky:
Instead of: I was laid off.
Try: → I outgrew a place where my skills and values were not being honored.
Instead of: I wasn’t chosen.
Try: → This path is clearing space for alignment, not proving my worth.
Instead of: I’m starting over.
Try: → I’m redirecting with deeper clarity.
Instead of: I failed.
Try: → I learned what no longer fits.
Instead of: I don’t know my value anymore.
Try: → My value is intact, and it’s what generates opportunity and income.
🌿 I want to pause here and speak personally for a moment—because this isn’t theory for me.
I’ve been on the receiving end of jokes, dismissive comments, and quiet devaluation simply because I chose not to continue on a traditional 9–5 path. I’ve been called “nothing,” or treated as though my work—and by extension, my existence—held less weight because it didn’t fit neatly into a familiar structure.
And I remember thinking: Can you imagine if I had accepted that as truth?
If years of lived wisdom, intuition, creative intelligence, and God-given discernment were suddenly erased because someone else couldn’t recognize their value?
I share this because I know that pressure intimately—and I also know how easy it is to internalize voices that were never meant to define us. What has steadied me is learning to hear through the noise rather than absorbing it, and trusting that when a structure can no longer hold you, it may be because your gifts are meant to be expressed elsewhere.
This experience isn’t unique. Even highly visible, celebrated creatives speak openly about this tension.
Issa Rae—a multi-talented, 9-Time (Primetime) Emmy Award Nominated Actress, Writer, and Producer—has shared candidly (with @KevOnStage) that she sometimes feels worthless when she isn’t actively creating or doing something “big.” You can see a snippet of that interview: [here] .
If that pressure can touch someone with her level of success, it becomes clear: this is a human pattern, not a personal failure.
I’m here to remind you that you are not behind. You are not invisible. And you are certainly not defined by a title.
This season is asking us to return to what’s intrinsic. You’re encouraged to nourish what’s innate and to remember that your God-given worth is not being earned here—it’s being revealed.
Live Well & Keep Creating!
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