Whether your family is holding Turkey Day on Zoom with breakout rooms for kids, or you’re all taking the risk of contracting COVID-19 and flying to Soda Springs, Idaho, to see grandma, you can probably expect one question to remain constant this Thanksgiving:

“So what do you do?”

This being 2020, I’m certain that this inquiry about your line of work may be causing more anxiety than it ever has before.

It’s a question that brings you back to feeling like an unsure, acne-ridden teenager with angsty, graphic Hot Topic T-shirts and an unusual affinity for coding your Myspace page (RIP Myspace). OK… maybe that’s what I feel like when family asks me that question, but you fill in your own blanks. Whether it’s Star Trek, Harry Potter, or calculator watches, I’m sure you can catch my gist.

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