Wardle writes about identity and conforming to social norms within a certain group and in this particular work, the focus is on the workplace. It is a normal idea that one must act and use certain genres within a workplace because it is expected.
Having worked four different jobs, I have a pretty good idea about how one's identity and behavior changes due to what is expected. As I am getting closer to graduating, which is terrifying, I will need to obtain an internship and learn the ways of how things are in the business workplace I enter, It will be crucial that I learn while in my internship how to communicate and the areas of improvement that I will need to focus on. I may lose part of my identity as I will constantly want to have a good and professional impression when I meet new people. This will be a positive and a negative thing as I will constantly have a filter and try to carry off a "persona", but possibly in the late future when I am in a more senior position, I will be able to show more personality Early on in my career, I will have little to no authority which will not bother me... as I would like to think it will not.
Being that I am an international business major, I would like to do business with a concentration in business between countries or a multinational corporation. I have yet to narrow it down to what I want to do specifically, but I can see myself somewhere along the lines of doing international finance or wealth management/financial advising but I would carry with me a global perspective of the markets and focus on non-U.S. markets. Yes, this sounds very boring to most people. The fact that I will have a global perspective means that I will need to travel to various countries and learn the customs there and become acquainted with markets aboard and trends in order for investors in the U.S. to jump on money trains that might not be seen on mainstream Bloomberg.
Entering the workforce will no doubt be about change within a person. A new person in a workplace will have to learn the lexis as well as understanding of how things work within the discourse community.
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