Reply to: So what do you do?

[vetran]

I herd cats.

Herding Cats - YouTube

[norrahe]

I herd cats.

[BigRed]

I'm a CEO of a consultancy firm of course

[MyUserName]

I work in finance - nice and vague.

[Mephisto]

OTOH telling people, especially women, that you work for/on an adult dating site tends to have an altogether different effect.

They'd call bulltulipe on me straight away!

[OwlHoot]

I work for the Government

Technically correct and sounds far more interesting that what I actually do....

Well yes, we all work for the Government until about the end of August don't we

[IRMe]

Invoice, the rest is just filler

Whenever IT is mentioned the response is usually "oh like programming, or more like fixing laptops?". I think my job is more like solving general problems. Ostensibly computer related but more often its a case of getting people to think properly about what they really want or indeed just talk to each other.

[doodab]

I've just about stopped roffling at this after reading it

I mentioned I 'worked in IT' to the Landlady of a B&B once. Big mistake. She had me fixing a 'broken' TV in one of the rooms. Turns out she didn't grasp the concept of one remote for the TV and one for the Freeview and had been 'figuring it out for days and had the whole lot unplugged several times to no avail'.

It's worse when you mention past ClientCos. especially Telcos. I think some people half expect you to climb the telegraph pole outside their house to diagnose their borked landline

OTOH telling people, especially women, that you work for/on an adult dating site tends to have an altogether different effect.

[Mephisto]

something with ERP.

Never mention computers, you end up fixing their £25 inkjet they got free with their virus infested laptop.

I've just about stopped roffling at this after reading it

I mentioned I 'worked in IT' to the Landlady of a B&B once. Big mistake. She had me fixing a 'broken' TV in one of the rooms. Turns out she didn't grasp the concept of one remote for the TV and one for the Freeview and had been 'figuring it out for days and had the whole lot unplugged several times to no avail'.

It's worse when you mention past ClientCos. especially Telcos. I think some people half expect you to climb the telegraph pole outside their house to diagnose their borked landline

[vetran]

Or, in my case, swearing at it for him.

I can multi task, I can swear at it and smear congealed ink over my fingers at the same time.

who says I'm not versatile.

[TykeMerc]

Or, in my case, swearing at it for him.

A consistent approach, very sensible.

[doodab]

Never mention computers, you end up fixing their £25 inkjet they got free with their virus infested laptop.

Or, in my case, swearing at it for him.

[vetran]

something with ERP.

Never mention computers, you end up fixing their £25 inkjet they got free with their virus infested laptop.

[RedSauce]

I'm a seal-clubber is my usual response

[DaveB]

Someone just asked me this.



seemed like the right answer.

I work for the Government

Technically correct and sounds far more interesting that what I actually do....