Keys, phone, wallet, and a knife are what I carry all the time, unless I go somewhere where the knife is prohibited.

I don't think this identifies me.

I’ve interviewed my share of folks and got a bit of a rep with the temp/contract to hire firms around as “the weird question guy”.

While I would ask questions to suss out skill and more importantly team fit etc. I would always ask weird questions that were less about a right or wrong answer and more about telling me if you could think on your feet, if you were more of a self driven person vs needing to be micro managed etc. etc.

Some examples, and I am bringing this around to the pocket knife, I would ask, say we accidentally locked you in this room and forgot about you and everybody left for the weekend. What do you do? I’ve had answers range from I scream for help to I sit down and wait etc. What I wanted to hear and heard on several occasions was I take my SAK out and take the door off she hinges 9 or I go through the drywall or I still have a cell phone (if I didn’t remove it from the equation). The point is it told me the folks who could think outside the box vs the folks who just waited for somebody else to help and showed me my fair share of pocket knife folks.

I also would ask on occasion, how many golf balls can you fit in a 1963 Mustang. . That’s a twofold question. 1 I want to hear your thought process if you have one (are they boxed or loose, can I take the seats out, etc. etc. ) but more importantly if you look at me and say “There was no 63 Mustang or there was only a concept car in 63” then I know you are a car guy.

I’ve had a knife in my pocket since 1988 when I graduated boot camp. As a sailor a knife is an everyday tool.

When I became a cop it was the same. It’s a tool-didn’t use it in policing as much, but it was still used.

Now that I’m retired from that, I still carry a knife.

That knife goes with me everywhere, even swimming. Unless I’m in an airport I have one on me and feel weird w/o it.

Also a pen, either a black write in the rain or a Zebra 701 that I hacked to make all the parts stainless.

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I’ve had a knife in my pocket since 1988 when I graduated boot camp. As a sailor a knife

I’ve had a knife on me since I was like 7. . I feel more naked without a knife or some kind then I do without a Wallet.

I can't imagine asking a potential managerial candidate whether they have a pocket knife on them.

Well, unless you both got tied up by a third party, and you couldn't reach your own to cut the ropes with .....

Put me in mind of another instance of tangential questioning.

I always have a knife and pen. The pen, some variety of the Space Pens. They always write and never leak.

The knife, for 20ish years a BM 940, most recently a ZT0452, and then a couple days ago, I got a Chinese (yeah, that's what I said) D2 steel flipper that is about as nice a knife as I have seen.

I tried the fixed blades, bought a million of them (okay, maybe a few less) and just could not carry them comfortably in shorts/T shirt.

Don't know how long I'll be enamored with it, but, regardless, there'll always be a knife of some kind.

Does this ID my profession? I'm a retired Lawyer and now kind of a doodler.

Bob

I may or may not have actually asked in an interview….”What is the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?”

For a long time my EDC included an HP pocket calculator.

The phone replaced that.

I have a Swiss Army Knife on my desk, one in my car and one in the toolbox at home.

Of all my knives, Swiss Army are my favorites.

I just don't carry it as one is always near and I'm too afraid of losing it.

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I got a Chinese (yeah, that's what I said) D2 steel flipper that is about as nice a knife as I have seen.

Civivi Elementum???

I carried a Swiss Army Tinker in my pocket for many years. Then, for some reason, I decided I didn't care for having a knife (or anything for that matter) in my front pocket. I then started carrying a Leatherman on my belt. It's there every day.

It really has nothing to do with my profession, but I do also keep a Super Tool 300 in my cart at work. You just never know when you might need a tool right now, and I've used it many times in a pinch.

No, not a Civivi, rather a Petrified Fish. Gary Graley had it for sale on a knife forum and he's always done me right, so I grabbed it and really like it.

I EDC a Fenix PD35, OTF automatic knife, spare 15 round magazine, and a Sig P365 with 12 round magazine. I carry these everywhere that they are legal. I am a retired natural gas technician.

Almost always have a pocket knife on me. Started back in elementary school with Boy Scouts and back then it didn't matter if we carried one at school.

At work, well I'm my own walking Swiss Army Knife. Small folding clip knife, Leatherman Raptor trauma shears, stethoscope, 2 pens, cell phone, spectre phone, 3 extra saline flushes, pad of Post-It notes, reading glasses, a roll of tape and a roll of Coban.

P365, a pen and business cards. Sales

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I EDC a Fenix PD35, OTF automatic knife, spare 15 round magazine, and a Sig P365 with 12 round magazine. I carry these everywhere that they are legal. I am a retired natural gas technician.

"Gas man"

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
I EDC a Fenix PD35, OTF automatic knife, spare 15 round magazine, and a Sig P365 with 12 round magazine. I carry these everywhere that they are legal. I am a retired natural gas technician.

"Gas man"

Yep!

I am retired. Prior to that I worked in IT for 40 years. I never carried a green card (no, not that one. This one. ). I looked like all the other office drones.
I have however carried a knife since my grandfather gifted me a scout knife when I was 11. Current EDC are a Swiss Army and a Case Kinzua (Made in PA).

The knifeless man is a lifeless man.

when I was management, I always had a pen in my shirt pocket, (used to 'borrow' the nice ones from the Rx )

and a note pad or something similar stuck in a pants pocket

rarely carried a knife in the latter years,
did carry a leatherman or gerber for a bit, but then stopped for no reason (other than I think I tossed them in the range bag/stool)

BTW,

not sure how a knife identifies a profession,

I was a Grocery Retailer, carried everything from an Opinel, Buck, Gerber, and a handful of others,

went into the gun business full time and still sometimes carry that Opinel, or a Chive, or a couple of Gucci type pocket knives I picked up in an estate