Pleased to meet you. So… What do you do?
What do you do? Why do we ask this question? Is it to get to know someone, a way to quantify someone? Is it a way to put someone in a box, to understand them? Are we genuinely interested in getting to know the person?
Initially, asking this question is innocuous enough, until you hear a response you didn’t expect. A response that makes you think.
Oh, you’re a doctor, a lawyer, a Soldier, an astronaut. You work for NASA. You don’t have a job!
Regardless of initial intent, categorization is at work. Profiling is occurring. What box do I put them in?
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