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“What do you do ?” This banal question that often surfaces in the economy of social relationships entails a number of questions that a researcher may ask about how social actors related to their own condition, because it is often an invitation to present oneself through one’s professional activity, as if social and professional identities were joined at the hip. Trying to understand how we express our social condition means no underestimating the apparent banality of this question and grasping how it reveals the daily presence of class relationships, in particular in the context of interactions between people coming from different social backgrounds (as can be revealed in the interaction with the researcher herself). Based upon the study of self-representations among a specific group of workers in a RATP [the Paris transport authority] workshop, the article tries to show how some among these young workers have adopted representations of their condition “seen through the eyes of others,” while other groups distantiate themselves from such perceptions. Analyzing the different ways in which they express their condition thus implies reflecting upon class identities within the workshop, which in turn exemplify broader tensions within today’s working classes.