Describing my job? Yeah, sure. I do science.
Explaining my job? Hell no. Nobody is willing to read a 20 page lit review to start to understand the background of what I do
Nope. I keep the internet working.
People seem happy when I say that. Unless my internet at home craps out and my wife makes a cheeky joke about it.
“I’m a stand-up comic.”
“Ooh! Heckle me!”
“I don’t know anything about you and don’t wanna say anything mean about you. Just enjoy the moment without getting a performer to do free work for you.”
“You’re no fun.”
“Don’t have to be on all the time, let me eat my burger.”
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I started out as a quizmaster, telling quiz for a night a week. I’d open my show with a new 45-second bit each week, built audience numbers over time.
Then I realized I’d been doing this for years, and was an incredibly prolific comic! I had enough material I could just walk out onto a stage and just lengthen out my opening bits, cause I no longer had a quiz to tell that night!
I’m in DevOps, so anyone not in tech has no idea what I do/what that means. So, I end up just saying “I work in IT”.
My new doctor didn’t like that answer when we were making small talk and wanted a more detailed answer, so I tell him. He looks at his nurse and says: did any of that make sense?
Huh, I came to say pretty much the same thing. I’m DevOps, more or less, by I tell people I’m a programmer since that’s what I do
I cast spells that make the runes etched in sand translate the energy of magic stones into dancing light.
Usually I just tell people that I work in IT and leave it at that.
“Hey so does that mean you can fix my laptop and make my next gen app idea for free?”
Of course!
I’m a florist. People understand what I do, they usually just don’t think it’s worth doing or paying me for my labor.
Ya I’m still lying about being laid off almost 2 years ago, so it’s kinda rough
What did you do?
I was a front end dev. I am just coasting on depression and savings until I figure out what I wanna do.
I am a clerk in a bakery.
I mostly put bread in bags, and those bags on shelves.
Mine is usually pretty simple to explain. I do CNC, which is cutting objecting/materials into useful shapes using big machines.
Yep. Sometimes I can’t even figure out what they pay me for.
No.
Nope, most people are fine with “I’m a programmer”, the few times someone asked me what exactly did I program, I answered with the ELI5 version of what I do and that’s always been enough, e.g.
- I make computers see and understand what they’re seeing.
- You now site X? I work there
- You know game X? I work in the servers for it
Yeah but developed a quick explanation for it: Industrial water treatment tech for HVAC. You know how having a swimming pool or hot tub requires some chemistry? I do that for water in boilers and cooling towers used to heat or cool big buildings
I don’t have a job, so no trouble at all.
It’s hard to explain a job where I watch YouTube most of the time, and then I do random when I am asked to do some stuff.
