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.
Not really. I tell them it’s like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.
Ugh, why did I immediately jump to working with pigs? I’m still scarred.
I don’t have a job, so no trouble at all.
My job title is an acronym, inside the company no one seems to agree on what this acronym stands for. So yes, I just say I work in the Automotive industry.
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.
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.
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’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.”
I imagine you get these questions all the time, but how did you get into stand-up, and how did you get the guts to get up on a stage and try to be funny?
I love the idea of stand-up comedy, but I’ve been to a few open mic nights and it almost always seems like drunk people showing off, people that are hilariously unfunny, or people in the crowd that try to shit on anyone remotely trying to entertain.
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!
Yeah, I work in cyber forensics where everything I do is confidential, so yeah, I can’t actually explain my job which makes it difficult to explain my job
My friend had this problem, I knew him for a while and couldn’t figure it out. I believe he was a “Transpondster”.
That’s MISS Chanandler Bong.
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.
Yes, I do. I’m a devops engineer and even “coding camp devs” have problems understanding what I do for a living.
I think most devs even only have worked in software companies that sell software where devops isn’t as critical and complex since there’s not “production” environments. When you work for a company who makes software for themselves and/or hosts software from other companies themselves, devops is a much bigger deal. Even moreso if it’s a heavily regulated industry like healthcare. Most other companies don’t spend much on devops or even often make the developers do that work themselves.
i have problems explaining my job to myself. As I sit on the floor, painting a wall or scrubbing the floor or as I’m trying to repair a door… yeah that’s not my job description
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.
