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Comment by schwartzworld | Hacker News Reader

Tangential: my favorite conversation starter at parties / gatherings is getting people to describe their spouse's job in front of them.

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I tell people my wife is a product manager, and when they invariable ask what that means, I say, "I dunno, it's like marketing I think, you know, sales." She used to hit me. Now she just roles her eyes.

When people are told I'm in accounting, one of the most common questions is related to taxes despite that not being my actual line of work. Oh well.

Somehow people learned I was working on my doctorate and I had several relatives/in-laws start telling me about their chronic symptoms, one time I was just sat there patiently at my own wedding dance listening to this guy talk about his droopy balls or whatever for 5 minutes only to inform him I was studying physics. Bunch of clowns the lot of them, maybe they were effin with me.

it's an issue caused by gravity

I would totally do that.

I’m totally stealing this.

In fact, I had to explain to my wife (and mother in law) what my father in law dad and her brother did in their careers.

They claim the guys never explain it but I found that their eyes glaze over!

My spouse used to run technical customer support for ISPs. Then she ran technical customer support for a big CDN. Now she translates software engineering bug fix reports into customer-appropriate release notes for a big process-automation company.

This is by far the best to watch. My wife used to describe "He works for <insert company name> (ecommerce) and makes the systems scale for famous stars flash sales and black friday cyber monday."

That’s a good one, I’m going to use this.

That’s easy for me, they do the same job at the same company I used to work at.

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