Is (or was) your work an expression of what gives you joy in life, or is it just a day job? How did you come to be in one or the other of these positions?

If your work is personally satisfying, how long did it take you to discover it? Did you hold many day jobs before you found your career? Was it the awfulness of the jobs-only-for-money that made you keep looking to change your path, or was it always a dream of yours to do a particular kind of work? Or did you just fall into it?

If you hold a day job, are you content with doing work you are not passionate about, and saving your passions for your leisure time? What keeps you from pursuing those passions as a career choice? Did you used to have a career you loved and something happened? Did you train for something you thought you would love but then partway through realize it wasn’t for you?

Retirees: did you get to where you wanted to be in your professional life before you retired?