jagalbraith

8y

Person: So what do you do for a living..
Me: (here we go)... I am an information security analyst working in an incident response team for x company. I do log collection and manage a large scale correlation engine.
Person: Oh, so are you super smart or something? (Blinks her eyes and continues with blank stare)
Me: Uh... Smart enough I guess.
Person: Can you hack things like a hacker.
Me: That really isn't my job...
Person: What's your job again?
Me: Computer guy
(She lights up)
Person: Why didn't you just say that? I can understand that.

Yeah... I seem to have painful conversations like this often.

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9

Hel8y

337

8y

Girl: "What did you study in college?"

Me: "Computer Science"

Girl: "Ohhh, that's" <short awkward silence, followed by an insincere> "nice"

Every damn time :-/
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r4lph

91

8y

I am loving sumologic btw.
2

rootstaffa

153

8y

Try telling them you work in encryption. Conversation won't even last that long.
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nmunro

3190

8y

I just say:

"I'm a mad scientist who can do lots of things drunk that most people couldn't do sober."

"Ok... What does that entail?"

"I'm not allowed to talk about it... Not since the... Incident..."

Just kinda trail off and fake a cold shiver.

"... Those poor, poor penguins..."
2

nmunro

3190

8y

@smaisidoro Murphys law >.<
2

ggromx

436

8y

person: what do you do for a living?
me: I develop Web applications
person: so you studied computer science, design?
me: no I am a theoretical chemist
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Jumpshot44

11022

8y

Yeah I have whittled it down a little more every year. Down to, 'I keep the business going and people in their jobs in the face of any crisis...'
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iSwimInTheC

42004

8y

I've whittled it down to: I'll be ruling the world with robots one day
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moort

4340

8y

We need a word for non-devs

Something like muggles...

I/o novs

Nulls

Fofs (404s)
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rootstaffa

153

8y

@zombie01 the technically impaired?

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