Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living

Re:Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living by zamnos on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:02AM (#35523378)

It depends on who you're talking to in San Francisco, and everywhere, really. In my part of San Francisco, we don't ask the question what do you do, because that automatically slots you into one class or the other in the hierarchy, and so we intentionally avoid that in order to be able to interact without prejudice. Different scenes, same (tiny) city.

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Re:Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living by bl4ckm0r3 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:37AM (#35524299)

One day at farmers market i was buying tomatoes and the guy asked me what was i doing (swe) and he started saying that he was only there to help his brother and that he works for a company that sells firewalls to other companies and tried to sell me the product, while putting tomatoes in a paper bag.

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Re:Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living by ismokedoinks on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:52PM (#35527795)

Sounds like you were both trying to feed your families :-) unfortunate that it makes so many of our interactions feel artificial

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