We are verbs, not nouns

In conversations with managers, I often hear people say something like "Well, I can't help myself, that's who I am, I'm an engineer / a finance person / a lawyer," etc.

The Guardian

I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next.

I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."