What Do You Do for a Living?

This is one of the first questions in a conversation with someone we don't know. We tend to equate our jobs with our lives. It's an easy way to categorize people and gives us a chance to decide what to say next and what might be safe topics of conversation. But our jobs are not our lives. There is much more to all of us than what we do at work. Actually, what we do at work is more a part of someone else's life than it is of ours. Most people don't have a choice of what they do each day and follow a schedule set by someone else. Maybe a better question would be "What is your life about?" or "What are your goals while you are on earth?" I think I will try it the next chance I get and see what happens.