@jimv @cmconseils I grew up in Spain, but left quite young, and it wasn't until I returned and learnt adulty things that I realized it simply wasn't polite, when you met someone new, to ask what they did for a living. It's not quite taboo, but it's considered unfriendly and impolite and kind of rude.
And then in made a lot of sense to me, that you meet people as people - not as earners or experts or workers. It's humanistic.