How does your partner describe your work?

[Lockhouse]

Anything to do technology, whether it is what I do for a living, my laptop, iPad, the internet, my xbox.... Mrs Jmo21 describes simply as "geek-tech" with a roll of her eyes.

Indeed.

Yesterday all these packages turn up at the door, the missus says "What's that?", I say "It's the custom stands for my Eyefinity display......I need them for work.....".

She just gives me "The Look".

[Mich the Tester]

Indeed.

Yesterday all these packages turn up at the door, the missus says "What's that?", I say "It's the custom stands for my Eyefinity display......I need them for work.....".

She just gives me "The Look".

Thanks for reminding me. I'm a permie now but the Ltd can't be closed before the last VAT declaration this month, so I can still get the VAT back on my flash new Tacx VR cycling trainer I bought at the weekend. I suppose I should rush out and buy a whole lot more unnecessary techie crap while I can still get the VAT back.

[d000hg]

"works in software" would be how she would say it I think.

Never really noticed.

She does admit she has absolutely no clue what I do.

Or interest.

[badger7579]

"Faffing with Computers" was a personal favorite description from an ex of mine

[Sysman]

I'm not entirely sure myself.

My best mate in my early career asked me to describe my job and I had great difficulty describing it in non-techie terms.

Some time later he was there when I was explaining the pros and cons of a career in IT to someone else, and he got a better grasp of it.

[Sysman]

Programmer. Or possibly "IT consultant". Apparently I spend a lot of time complaining about "bobs".

I recall an ex-colleague's wife answering the question of what her husband did.

"He's a C plus plus programmer" with a very superior tone of voice.

She hadn't seen his code ...

[Old Hack]

My wife sed to be an Oracle Financials Contractor and really knows about puters, which is a downer as I can't get away with anything, and she knows my work probably as well as I do.

The other day I was asked what I did by my 6 year old, I said I was a Senior Consultant to Client name to which she replied does that mean the oldest one...

[BrilloPad]

My wife describes my work as boring.

Which is accurate.

[d000hg]

My wife describes my work as boring.

Which is accurate.

At least it gets you out of the house.

[Mich the Tester]

At least it gets you out of the house.

His wife says that too.