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I wrote the following, but I find it a bit unnatural, I can't really think of many other ways to say this.
If you choose to ask me questions about my work instead of questions about my personal life, I will indulge you in giving you an interview.
Is there a better and more simple, natural way of saying this? Any slang you can think of?
The simplest way I can think of is:
If you ask me questions about my work rather than questions about my personal life, I will be happy to give you an interview.
Note, I tweaked the first part of the sentence as well to make it sound more natural to me. Another way to say it would be:
So long as you stick to questions about my work, and not questions about my personal life, I will be happy to give you an interview.
If you rather ask me questions about my work instead of questions about my personal life, I can fix you up with an interview.
Definition: If you fix someone up with something they need, you provide it for them.
Another possibility is to drop the first part of the sentence and focus only on what you want, also using a bit of parallelism:
If you indulge me by only asking me about my work, I will indulge you by giving you an interview.
Note that I've also changed the preposition from in to by.
If you actually want slang, then something like this could work:
Do me a solid and ask only about my work, and I'll do you a solid and give you an interview.
Do me a solid is slang which means do me a favour. (It seems more common in US English.)
