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Discourses of flexibility suggest: (i) different ways of working - a shift away from job demarcation; and (ii) a different disposition towards working - one in which workers are enterprising and self reliant in responding to the needs of ‘customers’ and learners. In this colloquium paper the author focuses on dispositions: the ways in which a sample of teaching staff in further education talk about themselves and their work roles; how they construct and make sense of their own professional identities, positioning themselves in relation to current understandings of flexibility.