My least favorite "get to know you" question is easily, "What do you do for work?" This is mostly because my husband is a pilot, so when it comes up I'm usually standing next to him, and people have way more follow-up questions for the pilot than the UX designer. Which, fair.

But what I do is pretty cool, too!

You’ve seen the work on the rest of this site, so I won’t re-pitch it here. I’m the designer behind those projects, sure. I’m also the teammate you ping with “got a quick sec for some feedback?” (Lately, I’ve been getting along great with my newest coworker, Claude, too. SUCH a quick responder.)

And why else do I dislike that silly, "What do you do for work?" question? While UX is an obvious passion of mine, it's not my whole life. And if we're meeting for the first time, I'd like to talk about other things that I find really cool and fun, too. I love running for long distances (even if no one is chasing me), solving logic puzzles (and beating my friends and family in any word-based competition), and reading (I don't have a fun joke about reading. Books are cool).

There are a lot of great designers out there, but life's too short to hire the wrong coworker... so pick me, choose me, hire me!

(If you haven't seen Grey's Anatomy, I promise that's a reference and not a cry for help.)