What did you do. Such a simple question on the face of it, but the answer is so complicated, Joel almost doesn't know where to start. Maybe the easiest answer to that would be smuggler, or, if he wants to stretch the truth, carpenter - though he hasn't done carpentry for twenty years.

He hasn't really been a smuggler for about a year, either.

She asks it in the way someone would ask someone else what their job is - back in the days when people had regular jobs that could be talked about like that. It's been a long time since that's been the case for most people in Joel's world, though.

"I survived," he finally says with a shrug.