Networking

So I was invited to this small group Christmas party by an old friend from school and somehow we got on the conversation of what type of criminal would we want to be. Everyone was kind of silent at first and then a couple of people chose to be a bank robber to have a lot of money....I naturally chose espionage and inquired about what a bounty hunter is. The people kind of looked at me funny, I'm not sure why but whatever. Then we got on the conversation of what occupation we would chose if we had no boundaries and I chose secret agent work. I was really into it and talking about how cool it would be to perform martial arts and investigate, but the down side would be killing people, since that's wrong and I could never do that and then they were all kinda of looking at me...like who is this person? I suppose espionage and talking of its activities isn't really the best first impression.