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Acts calm in the meeting, screams into a pillow in the car after.

means Someone who does the job, and does it to the expected standard, regardless of what they actually feel about it in the moment.

from Traces back to Latin 'professus' — one who has openly declared or avowed something, from 'profiteri,' to declare publicly. It first described those who had taken vows into a religious order, then spread to anyone who had publicly committed to a vocation — law, medicine, the clergy. The 'profession' was originally the declaration itself; the composure came later, as the job requirement nobody wrote down.

origin
from profess, as in publicly vowing
core skill
hiding panic behind a calendar invite
paradox
the suit; feelings optional, deadlines not
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