nostr:npub1nua29dqq26r0xqt37wfnrky50gfzgyf4gvjf2sv22nt823wd9y0q9jyqhq nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Thanks, and I didn't say that from direct experience, but from a couple of books on French culture that portrayed the French that way. But "What do you do in life" is a much better question, one hardly anyone in the US would ever ask.

Most of my friends and acquaintances are musicians or artists, and almost none of them ever ask what we do for work . . . we ask about music and instruments and painting and so on.