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Telling people what you do for work.

I have messed with people, especially when I go on vacation to Florida or the Carolina's where there's tourists from all over and Canada. Because I have an accent that morphed from Brooklyn to Brooklyn/Long Island and the way I look, I tell people I'm in "Waste Management" (For the record, not even close to what I do) while hold my cigar. They generally either leave it at that or want to buy me a drink. LOL
 
I don't really talk about my job. Not too many people know what my team does... but that's ok I guess.
 
bigbov said:
I am an insurance agent. I always tell people when asked and gladly do quotes if people want as that's how I make money ;).

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Same here.
 
I say "attorney" and everyone thinks you are a litigator. So I say "General Counsel" and most don't know what I do. If I want to expand, I say that I review and write contracts. If they want more, I say that I negotiate solutions. If they want more, say that I also do some estate planning. But basically, I negotiate solutions.
 
Scorp said:
I don't really talk about my job. Not too many people know what my team does... but that's ok I guess.
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I'm just going to assume you are part of a team of elite assassins .

Team , operates in secret, no one knows what you do

Can only be a team of assassins.
 
Desmond said:
I say "attorney" and everyone thinks you are a litigator. So I say "General Counsel" and most don't know what I do. If I want to expand, I say that I review and write contracts. If they want more, I say that I negotiate solutions. If they want more, say that I also do some estate planning. But basically, I negotiate solutions.
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Would it be fair to say your a Contract Attorney?
We have this title at my company and what you listed off is about what they do.
 
Nope because most people think I am a vacation planner.
 
No problem telling people I'm a HS teacher. The follow up always is one of two questions. Either what classes do I teach, after which they respond by telling me how they hated that class and almost failed it. Or how do you deal with HS kids all day when they're so horrible? (People believe way too much of what they read online.) To which I reply that I have fun pretty much every day at work and I only teach college level AP classes so I almost never get any of the really problematic students.
 
Mmaynard11 said:
Nope because most people think I am a vacation planner.
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You mean to say that you aren't?

Shocked GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 
I tell them I ama retired Adult Film star...worked with Stormy Daniels a couple of times.
 
Parrot said:
If someone asks, yes. I usually couch it in a pretty specific way like I'm an appellate lawyer. If we're joking a bit when it comes up, I tell people I kill trees.
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Its usually as a walk on with other walk ons so I tell them I am a commercial banker.

Then I tell them: A banker and a lawyer stand on the roof edge of a tall building. They both step off at the same time. Who hits the ground first?

Who cares.

You can insert the usual white collar title of your choice
 
uitar99 said:
Its usually as a walk on with other walk ons so I tell them I am a commercial banker.

Then I tell them: A banker and a lawyer stand on the roof edge of a tall building. They both step off at the same time. Who hits the ground first?

Who cares.

You can insert the usual white collar title of your choice
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I haven't heard that one this week. 😁
 
I don't lead with it but will if asked. I'm a sales guy, most of the population has no clue what it is I sell & I have no real desire to explain it.
 
I used to tell people: "You know those drawings that come with your new TV? I draw those". Until fewer and fewer people even knew what I was talking about. Plus, they stopped putting those drawings in at all. Now, I tell them: "I manage the Engineering Design Software for <major network>..."
 
I'm retired now but while I was working I never had any of my friends ask for my help and I was thankful for that as I worked in and managed a 911 center.
If they needed my help they were in trouble and I didn't want to see that.
 
Jiffypop said:
Would it be fair to say your a Contract Attorney?
We have this title at my company and what you listed off is about what they do.
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Thanks, but I am a General Counsel and More. Contracts, Mediating Disputes, Advice on Business Decisions, Setting up businesses, Tax Issues, Basic and Advanced Estate Planning, Marital Agreements, and more.
 
I just tell them I work with data and they usually look disinterested after that.
 
I work part-time for a content marketing firm, have a side hustle, still have real estate clients in Cabo, and taking a poker-dealing certification course so I can start dealing at our local casino. I usually just say I'm self-employed... haha
 
Back in the day I directed @MtlJeff in some of his college film work. Unfortunately it was towards the latter stages of his career, and he was phoning it in a bit. The work was difficult at times, but extremely rewarding.

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Wantacigar said:
I have messed with people, especially when I go on vacation to Florida or the Carolina's where there's tourists from all over and Canada. Because I have an accent that morphed from Brooklyn to Brooklyn/Long Island and the way I look, I tell people I'm in "Waste Management" (For the record, not even close to what I do) while hold my cigar. They generally either leave it at that or want to buy me a drink. LOL
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I was young maybe 23 (2000) and flew into Vegas for the first time in my life for some training. I brought my clubs with me. I took a taxi to a course and got paired with a father son twosome. Right out of the Sopranos. Track suit on the kid button down shirt with slacks for the dad, huge rolexes, cigars and gold chains with the heaviest NJ accents I've ever heard on a white american.
"where you from, what do you do"? I ask. The older guys says "we are from New Jersey and we are in waste management".
I was so freaked out as a tiny town country boy from Idaho. I played the most respectful game in my life. They offered me a ride back to my hotel in their limo. Looking back I probably could have had one heck of a night.
 
lol, if I told people the industry I worked in they’d be very confused. If I tell people the title I hold they think differently of me.

So, I just say I’m Partially Educated
 
rhinosparky said:
I was young maybe 23 (2000) and flew into Vegas for the first time in my life for some training. I brought my clubs with me. I took a taxi to a course and got paired with a father son twosome. Right out of the Sopranos. Track suit on the kid button down shirt with slacks for the dad, huge rolexes, cigars and gold chains with the heaviest NJ accents I've ever heard on a white american.
"where you from, what do you do"? I ask. The older guys says "we are from New Jersey and we are in waste management".
I was so freaked out as a tiny town country boy from Idaho. I played the most respectful game in my life. They offered me a ride back to my hotel in their limo. Looking back I probably could have had one heck of a night.
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You most certainly would have!! Jersey Boys a little different than Brooklyn Boys, but close enough! LOL
 
I sell software so it isn’t that fascinating. What we sell is kind of complicated to explain to non-technology people but I can usually make them understand it.
 
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