My 2 cents, and again new into knives.
When I worked at a grocery store, it seemed like visibly expensive items caused problems, or could become targets for theft. While I didn't have a lot of money at the time, I had gotten a $500 citizen watch that drew attention, sometimes not the right type. It got beat up and eventually I stopped wearing it and switched to a cheap timex at the store.
We also had one of the Chef's, yes this store actually had Chef's, with a nice $500 set of personal Global knives.... I think he brought them in for a total of 2 months. However, others started quickly using and abusing them, and he went back to the store provided Mercer and other random NSF knives. Even stealing his crappy NSF knives became a habit for many as they were at least sharp. I used to keep a Chefs knife and pairing knife hidden, and had one of the butchers teach me out to sharpen them.
I worked at UPS for a while too, and I recall most people using folding box cutters, which were needed from time to time. I seem to remember a few people who had nicer knives, but in my limited time there, imho it could draw attention that wasn't really what i would perceive as good.
So I guess my advice would be, keep the amazing para3 for when you want something nice.
At work, use a functional tool that you don't care about, or you can afford to easily replace, because it will get beat up, broken, stolen or lost at some point. Personally I would recommend the Kershaw 3/4 ton, for $15 you can't kill it, it will keep a decent edge, you can use it to pry on things, and its easy to sharpen. I just bought a Native 5 to replace the 3/4 ton (given to a friend), but I really don't think its better, and the Native 5 may be worse many of the most frequent times where I previously used the 3/4 ton.
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