Professionalism is important in all fields of work. It is what helps separate personal life from business ventures and is what allows people to be able to appropriately deal with things in a non emotional way. This is obviously a necessary skill, especially when there are important things on the line because of a job. Professionalism in fields such as lawyers or doctors is especially important because of the fact that personal values cannot be pushed into those professions in order to fulfill the job. In education, professionalism is important because it provides a safe environment for students to feel comfortable in and be able to both express themselves and excel in the learning environment. For teachers, professionalism is largely about respecting your students as people and respecting their opinions and ideas. It is also about being able to remain calm and create an environment where students are comfortable enough to ask questions. 

When it comes to my personal professionalism, I feel like I do have a bit of a ways to go. I tend to have a hard time controlling my emotions when I am overstimulated and in those cases, I shut down and struggle to deal with everyone, including people I am close with. I think that, with time and help from an appropriate person (such as a therapist) I would be able to excel my professionalism and be able to better control any meltdowns that I have due to being overstimulated. I do not want to create an environment for my students that is welcome to outside thought, views, and questions, so I know I need to be able to work on myself and my combative nature to be able to provide that. Being combative is actually one of the reasons why I want to be an English teacher, and that provides being able to promote deeper thinking of reading material and alike, so the students would be able to think critically about their viewpoints. So, I would say that all of my personas are not fully calibrated to each other because I view my professionalism as one persona all on its own. 

The roles that social media plays in professionalism is a very complicated one. On social media, being professional to others is incredibly important not only so you can get your voice out there, but also because potential employers can look at your email and get every single one of your accounts on social media that is connected to that email. For those reasons, making sure that you remain professional and treating people with basic respect is incredibly important. That importance is only multiplied when social media is apart of a job. On social media, it reflects directly back to you, so if it is apart of your job, making sure that staying professional on any social media account could be detrimental to the job.