"What do you do?" is often the first thing we ask new people we meet.

Identifying with our work can be empowering, but when we put too much weight on our professional personhood, we can feel lost when our work situation changes. We look at how to manage this and where our work-selves should fit in the broader scheme of our identities. 

Plus, comedian Anna Piper Scott and writer Yianni Agisilaou tackle a tricky Too Hard Basket dilemma involving platonic heterosexual friendships and children saying the darndest things.