Q: What do you do ?
A: I am a Computer Networking Engineer
Q: Sounds great. So you build websites ?
A: Umm not exactly but I am aware of how websites work.
Q: So you can build a website ? Like one of those Godaddy ads ?
A: I can surely help you find someone to build that for you. I am just an IT guy.
Q: Oh you mean IT guy who fixes computers/printers etc ?
A: Kinda. The weather is really great today, isn't it (subject changed)
> Sounds great. So you build websites ?
That's funny -- I am a web developer, and when people ask what I do I say "I build websites"... which is invariably followed up with "oh so you're a designer".
(Then I follow up with "no, I'm more involved in the plumbing and wiring", and by then they are usually bored).
I thought about contacting the office to inform her superiors about the privacy violation, but didn’t. I sometimes wish I had. I always wonder if I dropped an opportunity to protect others from similar abuse of patient records.
As far as anyone but friends and family, whose numbers I have saved, I don't exist outside the hours of 0900-1730.
So? Take them for an equal ride. It's a lot of fun.
I got them to stop asking me about it, but I don't think that either of them ever believed my assertion that I wasn't a technology magician.
A: that series of tubes you use, I make sure they don't suck.
A: Software Architect
Q: Oh! Great! Can you please fix my laptop?! ...
Q: What do you do?
A: I'm a physics professor. I'm teaching a thermodynamics class.
Q: That's great! Can you please fix my radiator?
A: Computer shit. These fires have been crazy huh?
Q: What do you do?
A: I'm a doctor.
Q: I have this hemorrhoid, could you have a quick look at it?
A: I love this wedding-cake.
A: Science
Response: Oh... ok.
You can mostly tell when people are actually engaged in your answer and when they're just making small talk.