로서

As, in the role of

Marks the capacity someone is speaking or acting in: as a writer, as the cynic of the group, speaking as someone who has been through it. 현재로서는 is a fixed one meaning 'as things stand for now'. The trap is 로써, one letter different, which means 'by means of' — 로서 is a role, 로써 is a tool. After a consonant it becomes 으로서, a split one of these lines is literally a grammar lesson about.

Register: slightly formal