What do you do?

What do you do?

Says the man on the bus and the woman in the queue and the people I've just met at the party.

What do you do?

Says the teacher and the doctor and the couple I got chatting to at the pub on Tuesday evening.

What do you do?

Asked the guy in the cafe who was stuck on his crossword and asked me for help.

Three across, six letters.

The answer was career.

What do you do?

Says the registrar and the vicar at the wedding and the funeral director.

What do you do?

I ask again and again and again.

This was the beginning of a podcast conversation, about the questions we ask one another, and what we might like to ask instead.

You can listen to it here