“If You Could Have Any Superpower, What Would It Be?”
My unlikely go-to topic of conversation
I attended a fair number of meet-up events in 2023.
When I approached someone for a conversation (or vice versa), their first question to me tended to be, what do you do?
I really didn’t like that question, to be honest. It wasn’t their fault, mind, because such a question is a pretty standard one to get the ball rolling. However, I didn’t like the opening salvo of a conversation to regard my job title.
That’s why I preferred, what do you like to do for fun?
A turn of events
Once, I had a conversation with someone at one of these meet-ups about the very notion of asking standard questions.
One of the first things this individual said to me (and the group of people I was with) was along the lines of, “have you noticed that most conversations here always open up with one’s occupation? Why don’t we think of a different topic to open with?”
So feeling smart, I tried my then usual, “what do you like to do for fun?”.
