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QuantumChemist
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23 Jan 2016, 4:24 pm

Jo_B1_Kenobi wrote:

Nowadays the only mask I wear is my professional teacher mask if I'm teaching. I'm not sure this is a mask - it's really a way of behaving which fits properly and appropriately in a school when you're in a teaching role. I think calling it a mask is wrong because a mask implies some degree of falsity (as my previous minister's wife said). I see it more as a professional code of conduct.


I also have a teaching "mask" that I wear when I teach. It allows me to interact with others differently than I normally would be able to.



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23 Jan 2016, 6:12 pm

Yes, I have a teaching mask too, but it´s only half way a mask. I´m fine with it.

I have, however used close to my entire life finding a mask in order to fit in with comrades, with my family, on the job, when I had one.
At last, two years ago, in the start of a work trial, I thought: "I nailed it! I´m like the successful people now."
Actually, I fooled an employer with my laid back, awake, smiling, academic facade and it turned out, that I failed so miserably - because of communication - and I ended up confused, banging into doors, walking the wrong way, putting files in reverse order.
Out I went.


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