ABSTRACT
Members of a profession live quite intently within that group and assume unreflectively its identity along with an assimilation of its values, ideas and ways of thinking and acting. But, very few people live their lives in one sphere only. For most of us the spaces of our belonging and becoming are multiple, like circles or ellipses overlaid and merging and centring on the self, the project of our own becoming. Most people have separate lives at work and with family and friends. For some their training and experience take them into different fields of work and allow additional occupational identities. These people can identify with more that one profession; an academic lawyer, an engineer manager, or an actor/director exemplify such roles. The men, whose stories are told in the next two chapters, moved in more than one professional sphere and could identify with two professions. They appeared to have more options and could feasibly find acceptance in one profession to obviate the antagonism of the other. They had a part in their fate, but the groups to which each belonged determined much of what occurred.
