If you ask a person from a hunter gather society or a medieval peasant what they do, whould the question even make any sense? My old high school coach always asked a new aquantiance "What do you do ... for fun?"
Couldn’t agree more. Our occupations are a pillar of American society for sure and much of the world as well. I had a friend who always used to hate answering the question “what do you do?” So I told him to start answering whatever he did last Friday. “Drink beer and listen to classic rock” or “read a book and so tea.” He said he got a lot of side eye but at least he wasn’t talking about work any more.
And for it all to go the more positive direction, we must break free of the era that someone described as childlike behavior-- for self-interest and immediate personal gain -- an era supposedly predicted by Aleister Crowley and past figures of similar persuasion.
If you ask a person from a hunter gather society or a medieval peasant what they do, whould the question even make any sense? My old high school coach always asked a new aquantiance "What do you do ... for fun?"
A better ice breaker question IMHO.
Couldn’t agree more. Our occupations are a pillar of American society for sure and much of the world as well. I had a friend who always used to hate answering the question “what do you do?” So I told him to start answering whatever he did last Friday. “Drink beer and listen to classic rock” or “read a book and so tea.” He said he got a lot of side eye but at least he wasn’t talking about work any more.
Very apt inquires
And for it all to go the more positive direction, we must break free of the era that someone described as childlike behavior-- for self-interest and immediate personal gain -- an era supposedly predicted by Aleister Crowley and past figures of similar persuasion.