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Are you fun to be with? What sorts of things do you like to do when you go out on the town? During a typical week, what sort of physical activities do you enjoy? What do you most like to do on a day off? Here are a few ideas on answering this About Me question:

Dos

• The primary purpose of this About Me question is to make the reader want to join you in these leisure activities.
• Instead of five one-word hobbies, write a couple of sentences on two hobbies. Evoke the thought of “Hey, that sounds like fun” in the other person.
• Vary your list with indoor and outdoor, summer and winter, daytime and nighttime, mental and physical, planned and spontaneous, funny and serious activities.
  • Cite the daytime activities asked by “What do you most like to do on a day off?”
  • Cite the nighttime activities asked by “What sorts of things do you like to do when you go out on the town?”
  • Cite the physical activities asked by “During a typical week, what sort of physical activities do you enjoy?”

Don’ts

• Don’t cite only one activity.
• Don’t dwell on career-related activities.
• Don’t stick to activities belonging to your “passion” answer.
• Don’t dwell on solitary activities.
• Don’t cover once-a-year activities. It seems you had no leisure time the rest of the year.
• Don’t say, “I hardly have any time left over,” or “I’ve been very busy lately.”
• Don’t say, “Whatever time I have left I spend with my son.”
• Don’t mention activities you don’t do, you won’t do, or you will never do again.
• Don’t mention activities that had happened to you once and will never happen again.

How do you answer this question? Leave a comment.