"What is your deal?"

There's a new guy at work--a young, toy-loving (!) punk from the East Coast, "in recovery", Jewish...
I asked him if he'd like to light candles for Hannukah with the girlettes.
"Are you Jewish?" he asked.

"No," I said, "but some of the dolls are. Or, they say they are--but really, they just like to set things on fire."

(You know. Zoroastrians.)

A couple days later I was telling him we're soon entering his sign, Capricorn, and what great energy that is. (He's anxious a lot, and this seemed like a good perspective to share.)

He looked at me suspiciously. "What is your deal?" he said.

Then he immediately took it back––"No, no, I didn't mean that..."––and walked off to do something else.

But, honestly, I was wondering the same thing about him!
You're smart, creative, active... What are you doing here?

What am I doing there? What is my deal?
I don't know...

To do: work on an elevator pitch in reply to that.

And you?
Can you say in the length of a comment, what's your deal?