She lost me at “As”.
Nothing good comes from a sentence that starts with “As”.
Mrs Wbill dragged me to a liberal function a couple of years ago. Everyone there worked in government, or academia. Buncha twits. Every conversation started with "Now, what do YOU do for a living...."
I thought that it less that they were interested in what I did, and more because they wanted to brag about what they did - "Yep. I'm the 2nd Assistant Director to the Vice Chair of the Academic Planning Committee. But, Obama Willing, I'll be Director next year...."
Mentioned this to my Dad. He thought that my premise was entirely possible, but it was more likely that they just wanted to pigeonhole me into the correct box. IE, "As a ____ ____ ____ ____" and fill in the blanks.
I suppose that we both could be right.