"Tell me about yourself."

[Glycerine]

I usually say, "well, I am Asian".

 

[Ghost of the dead horse]

I'm a stack of meat about 5' high.

Opinions differ about my origins. These can be roughly divided to creation stories and evolution.

Now, will you hire me for that damned job?

 

[entropie]

Tell me about yourself

The face at the other end said,
"Tell me more about yourself."
I looked at the faceless face once again.
I began with my work, family, home and education,
He stopped me,

"No, I want to know about you, things about you that you have not so far said or written."

My mind took a spin around before I burst out.

"Thank you, I am a person,
I have the five senses,
that tenses every time I am pushed,
and every time pretense wins.
wallets more of a receptacle,
my struggles to others a spectacle,
outcast was the name of my fashion
though my heart was always filled with passion,
was given a lot of stare,
when I starved but never a care.
denied even my unfair ration,
left to rut and rot in tarnation,
was told not to lament,
eat alone all the torment,
inside me I carry a torrent,
out it flows sometimes in a gush, ardent,
into a multitude that were too ignorant,
I moved from chant to rant,
wishing for a save,
for once not to be called naive,
I never was lame,
tried always to reclaim
but they still threw on me all the blame
I am not the same.
I can never be the same.
When I was young,
and when I fell down, crying, unable to get up
faces asked me to grow up,
So I got up,
I grew up,
I fucked up,
the weight on my chest stacked up.
Now I must learn again, how to stand up.
I wished -"

 

[SingSmileShine]

I guess I'd include portions of my type, i.e. describing myself as an extravert, a sympathetic person, and an imaginative person. But I'd also include things about myself that aren't type-specific.

 

[Galena]

I include several items of standard personal info: Name, residence (name of town, not specific), what I do for a living (when I worked), where I originally come from and what brought me here, and some basic interests/what I do with my day.

Job interviews taught me how to answer this question.

But I don't even hear it very often in those because it's so much more efficient to just ask for what you want to know.

 

[Thursday]

I counter it with "what would you like to know"

 

[011235813]

I counter it with "what would you like to know"

That's a good one. I'm stealing it.

 

[WALMART]

I don't. That's why I don't get second dates.