Are you two different people?
By missybear
@missybear (11391)
United States
February 25, 2009 6:29pm CST
I'm not really but I'm different when I'm at work.
Everybody likes me they like talking to me, especially the older people.
I'm always polite and nice to everybody.
I was giving secret Santa Christmas gifts two years in a row, boy was I surprised . I'm really not braggingbut I make people laugh too.
At home I'm different, I'm pretty wild and can be quite loud and a little crazymaybe a lot crazy.
I like to let my hair down if you know what I mean.
Are you different people at work and at home?
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20 responses
@shootingstar85 (183)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I know exactly what you mean by two different people. I am the same way!! Around most people I am very polite and kinda shy. Everyone likes me and thinks I am such a sweet heart. But when I am home I am still polite, but I am so very silly. I make all kinds of weird faces and make weird noises. This may sound weird but sometimes I have to really hold all that in around people I dont know. I dont want them to look at me like I am some kinda weirdo. My family already knows I am a weirdo, hahaha.
@shyamlal (3533)
• India
27 Feb 09
Well I have just passed out from a college.. Still at times I feel like I am having two different "me" in me.. Sometime I care for others,love to hear what they says.. And on some other time I gets irritated at hearing people talking to me.. And it have not much relation to my mood or to the people I am talking to.. Sometime I can feel it that there is this two parts of me acting quite the opposite ways..
@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
1 Mar 09
As I think about this, when I read your discussion, I think I am the same at work and at home. If I am wild at work sometimes I am also the same at home.. I know of some people who are like that... maybe because you want to impress your co-workers hahaha...but at home there''s nothing to worry about.. even if you will not make any impressions to your family members they really know you.
@thungster (156)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I'm just like you. I'm very different depending on where I am. At work I'm much more calm and subdued. When I'm with different groups of friends I can either be very talkative, sarcastic, or just plain hyper. And of course, with my older relatives I'm much more polite.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
26 Feb 09
which one of us are you talking to???
cuz you know,
1 of us hates you,
2 of us try to get along with you,
2 of us like you a lot,
5 of us LOVE you,
and 1 of us doesn't even know you exist.
@phoenix25 (1541)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I am definitely different in the workplace than I am at home. I cuss a lot at home and I am very open about pretty much anything and everything. At work, I can't do that or I would probably get in a lot of trouble. I like to keep out of trouble at work, so I play it pretty straight-laced. I try not to talk about personal stuff, although I do end up talking about some stuff.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I know what you mean, sometimes I have to catch myself because I start to cuss
and I don't like doing that at work.
@Shar19 (8231)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I know exactly what you mean. I'm the same way. It's so much easier to be more wild and crazy when I'm at home then when I'm out and around other people. At home I'm in my element and no one is watching me look like a fool when I want to (at least I don't think they are).
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Same here, sometimes I'm stupid at home and my honey just laughs at me.
Oh well I have fun.
@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
26 Feb 09
hello missybear
i guess that i act more proper or professional at work than i do when that i am at home. and i know exactly what that you mean to let your hair down like that when you are at home. on the days that i work, when i get home in the afternoons, i want to have at least thirty minutes or so that i can let my hair down and kick back myself before that i have to cook dinner, help the children with their homework, clean the kitchen up after dinner, bathtime for the boys, then finally it is bedtime and hopefully once more i get to let my hair down for the night before that i retire for the night. lol you couldn't have said it any better than what that you did in your discussion about being two different people. lol
take care and have a beautiful evening.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
When I get home I kick back for a while to and then I work some more around the house With my hair down
@Yori88 (1465)
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
I am two different person. I am very serious at work and have a little fun. I always make things at work be as professional as possible. When I am at home I am easy go lucky and funny. I always find ways to enjoy myself, I play with my husband, watch movie with him and live a very simple yet happy life. At work I feel that everything should be in its right place and I should be as polite as I am. At home I act like a kid and play naughty things and just be myself.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I am with you missy..lol..there is who you are professionally and who you are. I never knew that before the job I have now. It's not so good to mix business with pleasure. Business is just that. I am not different as much as I am professional. That's the best way to describe me.
@mikkymyde (182)
• Nigeria
26 Feb 09
i can be as many people as i can be,it all depends on where i am,what i'm doing and the kind of mood i'm in..i don't think it is possible for anybody to be one person all the time..
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
You probably right.
Two people is enough for me though.
@victorywp (3524)
• United States
26 Feb 09
actually i'm more than just two different people... because i usually use different ways & behaviours towards different types of friends & people i met everyday.
for me, each person has their own characteristics & varies from on to another, & i just couldn't use the same "me" to approach all of them. so i ended up becoming a total different person when i'm with this person & with that person. it works very well for me although it might be very weird for people to understand how.
but let's say, if there are different types of friends meet together, i will ended up quiet & silent, because i couldn't use one "me" for all of them! those who knows me as a noisy person will say "what happen to you that makes you so quiet?" but those who knows me as a quiet person will say "he is like that all the time!". so usually i would not meet different types of friends at the same time.:D
i have never mixed up any of my identities towards which friends or people i'm meeting because it was so natural for me & i'm not faking to be another person. so i'm not only different when i'm at work or at home, but i'm different even at other places or towards different people. i'm so weird, right?
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Sounds complicated. Luckily all my friends are crazy so it's easy to fit in.
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
26 Feb 09
Naturally at work place you have different mannerism and at home different. You might like to say some things to your colleagues but you usually don,t but at home you call your brothers ans sisters what ever you feel like, there is no veil around you. At home you are original and at office you are what you want people to feel about you.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I used to be two distinctly different people...and I may still be but I haven't thought about my life now very much. When I live in Maryland I was a manager at a college. I had 38 technicians and a couple of network guys working for me and I had to use a completely different personality at work...whether I was dealing with my staff, the students or the faculty who thought the world revolved around them. At home I was pretty easy going and could be quite silly depending on the situation.
Now that I'm in Florida, technically unemployed but the owner of a bran new motorcycle business, I can't say that my personality changes much. When the phone rings it's a potential customer so I have to put on my friendly customer service face. When someone comes in my husband usually deals with them but if they come into my area where the *bling* is, I have to put on that same face. My customer service face is not too far removed from my real personality so I'm not sure anymore.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Hey missy! I think that most of us have two different
personalities when it comes to work and home! Or at least
I would surely hope so! Our work personality would have
to be more subdued! We wouldn't want the people we work
with to see the "real" us! They wouldn't want to know how
wild and crazy we are! We all have to be someone different
when we are in a workplace! I think that is pretty much
the normal routine! But, when we get home anything goes!
@MinruWind (194)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I'm not just two different people, I'm a whole bunch of personalities squished into one body. : D At home, I'm more relaxed, so I end up being more hyper than usual. I love to mess around with my relatives that occasionally come over to my house to visit, and I set up "surprises" for everyone. (That "surprise can be good or bad, depending on what is going on in my head. Usually, it's an event common visitors (relatives) can look forward to though.) Outside of the house, I'm more calm, and, according to my friends, I'm "impossible to scare". : ) (Since most of my friends get surprised easily, some couragous friends of mine play trinks on them, usually getting a funny reaction from them, the complaining, so it's an enjoyable moment for them. But every time they try surprising me, I never react the way they want. I don't jump, scream, or anything like that. Usually, I just turn around with a "Do you need something?" expression. That happens a lot, so I created a quote that I now use a lot. "If you want a good reaction, go scare them." Then I point to one of my other nearby friends. : D) In an office or any other important (or quiet) areas, that's when I'm the most serious. When I'm serious, it also looks like I'm angry, so some people mistook that. : D (Should I be happy about that? xD) Overall, my appearence changes somewhat, but not enough to make myself completely unrecognizable (usually). When I'm at home, I often let my hair down or tie my hair up in a ponytail. When I'm in a serious mood, my hair is let down. When I feel hyper or happy (or both) I usually tie my hair up or I style it. I use contact lense in almost every situation except rarely when I'm serious. (I use my glasses to display a serious mood.) I do that so people (that know me) can tell what mood I'm in.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Wow , that's quite some personalities you got there.
I bet you strangers try to figure you out all the time.
@Nhey16 (2518)
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
I guess, I've always been the same one, a quiet type of person who would only speak when necessary, well, I could be talkative sometimes but I just keep silent most of the times. But when it comes to my kids, that's a different story, I guess at times, I'm almost always a stage mother... :)
@online_jon (1476)
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
Me, i guess i am two different people, depending on the situation. Like example is when i am very serious for my work for my job like the money making job, i really do not want to be disturb. I just really want to give my focus on the things that i do, so i can give my best work for my job and there would be a chance to increase your salary payment because of your very nice work in your company. Well that was my other side in life, but sometimes there is also a time that i really just want to make a joke and share happy moments around to avoid my stress, and to increases my recreational activities in life. When i am in that side, that is very happy i always make a joke with my friends and we always make a funny games that all of us my enjoy and will always joy in life. Here in our country in addition, many people are really love making fun because they know that they can avoid aging my making a smile and it help to stay away in sickness... Well that's all my response to you discussion. Happy mylotting! Thank you.