Relatives: what do you do?
Me: Software Engineer
Relatives: Can you please fix my printer!
Me: what ????

Did this actually happen to you? Seems very stereotypical lol

Welcome to your first rant though!

@Stuxnet
This happens in our India 😅

Correct answer to that question is "I translate/transform business requirements in to software application platforms". Anyone clever enough to know what that means should be clever enough to not ask you to fix hardware problems.

That is the reason I recommend my relatives not to buy a printer.

One of my lecturers at uni called this the “You’re a musician, help me move this piano” problem..