My friend Sarah says: “I guess the main difference is that a dasher is someone who is mainly operating in one field, but working on various aspects of it and a slasher is someone who pursues a variety of different fields at the same time.
A dasher is a teacher who gives lectures at a university and gives private lessons and teaches at school, all at the same time.
A slasher is a painter, and a fashion designer, and an actress/singer, and a teacher, and an events manager all at once.

I think the dash person is definitely the healthier version of the two multi-taskers.

Dash don’t slash.. the jack-of-all trades is a slasher.”

What do you think? I think I disagree with her.

When I was in school, I was a dasher. I loved anything that had to do with self-expression, and that’s quite a small field when interest circles were so wide. My friends had different passions, including movies, science, or sports, or video games. It’s a slash between drawing and writing, because when you’re best friend is a soccer freak, anything that involves sitting down and using your hands is almost the same.

When I was studying Fine Arts, I started becoming a slasher. The passions of people around me became much more confined, and by moving away from art and also being passionate about words, I kind of stepped out of dasher boundaries.

When I started working as a designer, I officially became a slasher. While my friends are obsessed with the smallest details in design, like typography, lithography, or any other word ending in -”phy”, I often have a hard time describing to people what I really do.

‘Cause as much as I love design, a “designer” is no where near who I am. I am a word person too. And an internet person. And an art person. And a person person. The slashes for me almost never end, and I really like that. It never feels like I’m working, no matter how many things I’m doing, because there’s always so much variety. I’m never bored, and my attention span is tiny, so that’s saying a lot.

Are you a slasher, a dasher, or a… one word? :)

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