Just learned from a major running magazine, that Cat Cora, the sole female Iron Chef amongst the panethon of Irons Chefs on Tv....jogs regularily. She certainly fights against natural tendencies/temptations in her job as chef!

Do you do personal stuff/activities that are the total opposite/antithesis of your job/profession?

May sound wierd...but I don't read alot anymore..and I'm a librarian. I do digestable reading..magazines,etc. And a novel/book tends to take a long drawn out time, because lack of my own patience to sit for hrs. reading just a book.

And I haven't been motivated to join a book club ...yet. Yet librarians do strongly encourage this...for literacy combined with socializing.

In other areas I do correctly fit in my job type ,is interest in a range of different subject areas, joy of creative /associative memory, learning-on-the-fly, some capacity for technical ability, etc.

How about you?

Asking what a person does professionally is a very American thing to do. I think it's one of the first questions anyone asks.
Here in Germany they wouldn't think of asking you that. They ask about your hobbies, where you travel etc. but not what you do. If they ask that, then they usually get an answer as to where the person works, but not what he does. It took me a long time to get used to that
In a way it makes sense, because I do think what a person is...is not about the work he accomplishes, but what he does in his free time.

Orchid, you amaze me . How do you come up with all these interesting questions?

I agree Hanelore.What we choose as hobbies or the books we read tell me more than a profession does about a person.Also they often respond better when not "talking shop"
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