Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
ARTHUR MILLER.
Funny that the very evening after I read this, I met a Moroccan man and we stood and talked under an astounding sky (menacing clouds with ragged edges backed by a saffron and magenta sunset) and I pointedly didn't ask him what he did. He volunteered this information after awhile, and then laughed and said that it reminded him of being in Morocoo or Europe not being asked upfront what he does and where.
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