{"id":739,"date":"2014-10-20T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancymthurston.wordpress.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-10-20T05:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:14:05","slug":"what-do-you-do-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/what-do-you-do-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do? (Take 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"postoffice<\/a>I\u2019ve always hated the question, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d So rarely could I fit into the little boxes of traditional jobs that I feared were the only acceptable answers.<\/p>\n

And here I am in a month\u2019s long quest to answer that very question for myself. At sixty, however, I am willing to create my own little boxes (or circles or triangles or blobs).<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s answer is that I am a Diversity Partnerologist<\/strong>. In other words, I am a specialist in the science or knowledge of forming sustainable partnerships across diversity. It is a field filled with experiments, stretching past the boundaries of good old American independence grounded in the values and perspective of Euro-American patriarchy. There are gems and wisdom to be found when everyone\u2019s wisdom is heard as together we understand, define and envision ways to work together to attain common goals.<\/p>\n

In the last year, I\u2019ve been playing with different responses when someone asked what I did. Here are two of my favorites:<\/p>\n

Big Topics Wrangler<\/strong>\u2014I was born in Texas, after all. I like to \u201cround up, herd and take charge of\u201d conversations and actions around the drove of big topics that seem to roam\u2014and sometimes stampede\u2014freely today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

Conversational Catalyst<\/strong>\u2014I place myself in the middle of hot topic conversations where the chemistry of conversation has too long been reactive and divisive, in order to precipitate the possibility of transformation and healing\u2014without being personally damaged in the process.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s me, for today anyway. What do you do?<\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a>
Illustration by Khara Scott-Bey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I shouldn’t be surprised to discover when I came to post this blog that this is the second time I’ve written here of\u00a0 this question that has haunted me most of my adult life. it is fascinating to see how it keeps moving, clarifying, deepening.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always hated the question, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d So rarely could I fit into the little boxes of traditional jobs that I feared were the only acceptable answers. And here I am in a month\u2019s long quest to answer that very question for myself. At sixty, however, I am willing to create my own … <\/p>\n

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