I tell people I am a mathemagician. Oddly enough, very few people ask for 
greater exposition on the details of said position, although I did manage to 
acquire business cards with said title while I was at Nielsen. 

On 8 October 2024 13:19:17 GMT-04:00, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I received an early lesson on this issue in 1996. I asked someone what they
>do and he replied: I ski. He then  explained avuncularly (we were both in
>our late 20s) that on the west coast of the US that question always meant
>what do you love to do, what is it you live for (clearly not to earn). Now,
>of course, it screams privilige because you have created (or inherited) a
>life where you get to think of what you like to do. But on the flip side it
>made me feel...empty, because I hadn't worked on the things I had loved.
>Ever since, I've restrained myself from asking that question when I meet
>someone for the first time. I just wait collecting clues instead, hahaha.
>
>El mar., 8 oct. 2024 1:14 a. m., Udhay Shankar N via Silklist <
>[email protected]> escribió:
>
>> This, the most banal of all conversational opening lines, is something I
>> discourage at the meetups I organise. So it was interesting to see
>> silklister CY Gopinath's take.
>>
>>
>> https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/and-you-do-exactly-what-sir-23407241
>>
>> Udhay
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