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 >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Silklist mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist
