I have an ongoing identity crisis: my head is made of metal, my body is made of wood, and I spend my life getting hammered just to get ahead. What am I?
A nail
A nail has a metal head, a wooden structure it goes into, takes hits from a hammer, and moves forward ('gets ahead') into the wood.
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