90+ Questions to Get to Know Someone, How to Turn Small Talk Into Real Talk!

Questions to Ask to Get to Know Someone About Career

Prefer a deep conversation rather than just doing small talk? You might need these questions to get to know someone about career.

• What’s your favorite thing about your current job?

• What annoys you most?

• What’s the career highlight you’re most proud of?

• Do you think you’ll stay in your current gig a while? Why or why not?

• What type of role do you want to take on after this one?

• Are you more of a "work to live" or a "live to work" type of person?

• Does your job make you feel happy and fulfilled? Why or why not?

• How would your 10-year-old self react to what you do now?

• What do you remember most about your first job?

• How old were you when you started working?

• What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

• What originally got you interested in your current field of work?

• Have you ever had a side hustle or considered having one?

• What’s your favorite part of the workday?

• What’s the best career decision you’ve ever made?

• What’s the worst career decision you’ve ever made?

• Do you consider yourself good at networking?

• What career advice would you give to your younger self?

• Do you believe in having a "five-year plan"?

• How do you separate your work life from your home life?

Good Questions to Ask to Get to Know Someone

It would be a "good conversation starter" by asking the following questions to get to know someone below. More about questions to get to know someone.

• Do you have any friends you would consider family?

• Has your family ever pressured you to act a certain way?

• Did you ever get to meet your great-grandparents?

• What personality traits do you share with your relatives?

• What physical traits do you share with your relatives?

• What stories did your family members tell you growing up?

• How did your parents (and/or grandparents) meet?

• What makes you proud of your family?

• Who's the newest member of your family?

• What can always bring your family together?

• What’s a relationship deal-breaker for you?

• If you had only one sense (hearing, touch, sight, etc.), which would you want?

• What is your definition of success?

• What makes you feel at peace?

• What are you most proud of in the last year?

• What makes you feel most accomplished?

• Who do you admire most in the world?

• Would you instead and make more money doing a job you hate or less doing one you love?

• Which of your personality traits are you most proud of?

• What’s the first thing you look for in a partner and friend?

• How has your perspective on the world changed over time?

• Do you live by any piece of advice or motto?

• How can someone earn your trust?

• How can someone lose your trust?

• Would you rather someone be honest and hurt your feelings or lie to protect them?

• If you could snap your fingers and instantly make the world better, what would you do?

• Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

• Have you ever lost a friend? If so, what happened?

• If you could only teach one thing to your (future) child, what would it be?

• What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done, and why did you do it?

• What was the last movie, TV show, or book that made you cry or tear up?

• What makes you feel accomplished?

• If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose and why?

• Do you have any recurring dreams? If yes, what is it?

Questions to Ask Someone to Get to Know Them (Family Edition)

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Here are the other questions to get to know someone for the family edition! A great question to find out the best traits about someone!

• How much time do you spend with your family?

• Are you religious or spiritual?

• Who do you most like spending time with and why?

• Were you close with your family growing up?

• How do you define your family now?

• What traits are most important to you in your family members?

• Who are you the closest to and why?

• Do you want a family of your own?

• What’s your favorite family tradition?

• If you could change your relationship with a family member, would you? If so, with whom?

• What was it like growing up as the youngest/oldest/middle/only child?

• Does your family ever take trips together?

• What’s your favorite family memory?

• What TV family most reminds you of your own?

• Do you ever wish you were raised differently?

• What’s the best piece of advice a family member has given you?

• Do you wish you had more siblings? If so, why?

• Did you ever hide anything from or lie to your parents?

• If you had a family business, what would it be?

• Do you and your family have any nicknames for each other?

• What's your favorite way to spend time with your family?

Thank you for visiting Tripboba and reading all those questions to get to know someone above. Hope it can make a better bond to each other!