Lilija said:
If the subject is breached, and you are able to answer with confidence and honesty, then you're out.
Also, if the subject is I*never* broached but you feel able to answer with confidence and honesty, you're also out, even if that person or group it's never broached in never find out because it simply doesn't come up.
Example of feeling comfortable in unlikely circumstances:-
I've been doing a qualification in training and assessment recently, and on the first day there was a big "introduce yourself to the group" session. People got up and said things like "I work for Xxxx (major international corporation), and they are putting me through this to improve my skills as a staff trainer" or "I'm a Gestalt therapist and I want to be able to teach Gestalt Therapy in a specialist college but they need me to have this educational qualification", or "I am a draughtsman, and there are few properly skilled draughtsmen in Australia and fewer people to train them. I'm making a bomb in my business because there's so much work and so few people do do it, but the work would be coped-with better if I could teach twenty people to do it this year, and twenty to do it next year."
Everyone had their own story. Likewise, everyone was in business dress, and looked all very mainstream and right-wing (so did I that day, but I started wearing bright colours and tie-dyes after a while). About halfway through the group, I got up and did my thing.
"My name's Nisaba, and unlike the rest of you I'm not planning at this stage to be teaching an accredited course through a RTO. I've been reading Tarot since 1981. There are a lot of good people out there, but there are a lot of really distressing people as well. I've taught courses privately a few times. My hope is not only to improve my teaching-skills, but in the longer term to mainstream the field slightly, so that we're seen as less flaky and irresponsible, so that we will be seen by the rest of the community to be trained, responsible, ethical and skilled."
You know, not a single person of any background had a problem with it. About eight or ten weeks into the course, one person asked me for a reading, privately, and we did it outside of course time and course space. Another person stuck their hand in front of my face once and said "read my palm", so I looked stunned and explained that a collection of 78 bits of cardboard are slightly different to the skin on his hand, and that I'm a Tarot reader. Other than that, just like everyone else in the group, I was accepted completely as a person with a valid reason to do the course, and Tarot was accepted as my valid reason, nothing unorthodox, nothing funny, nothing that differentiated me from the other students at all.
See, if you're comfortable enough with it and take it as a matter-of-fact thing, even a hard-core group of businesspeople like that will take it in their stride.
