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I usually just tell people I'm a self employed graduate student because I can't hold down a regular job.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Them: So what do you do for a living?
Me: I'm a programmer.
Them: ....Oh...OK.
Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers.
Them: Oh good. Can you take a look at my computer. It's become slow and sometimes it won't start.
True story.
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Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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Seems very familiar...
lolsigh...
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Common misconception. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Here's another one.
Them: So what's your job?
Me: I work as a programmer.
Them: ...Oh...OK.
Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers.
Them: I see. So you work in a call center?
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Just great! For some reason why I like being a programmer is because people can't mess with me given the fact that they don't know what I'm actually doing.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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As an engineer, I never have to deal with explaining what I do. So few can understand it that they mostly walk away or change the subject, sorry they asked.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, I don't want, but I have to (just to be nice). I don't know what I have but I keep on attracting nosy people. They always ask anything about me and try to pretend that they understand the nature of my job, although they didn't.
When I was in college, when they knew I was taking Computer Science, they keep saying I'm going to be a call center agent after.
Once, I applied on a television network and they ask me if I'm going to be a newscaster.
Then I applied on a bank, and they ask me if I'm going to be a teller.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Karen Mitchelle wrote: I don't know what I have but I keep on attracting nosy people.
It could have something to do with being gorgeous. Some people have trouble relating to a pretty lady with a brain. Hang in there! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: gorgeous
Am I? Gee, thanks. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Well, that assumes that your bio pic didn't come with the wallet. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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The real challenge is to find one CP member that this hasn't happened to.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I generally say I'm a functional illiterate ( I didn't finish high school )
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Me, I'm a code monkey, this negates any chance that they will ask me to look at their damned computer or iThingy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Many people would not understand what a code monkey means. But as long as you avoid mentioning computer when you try to explain, you'll be fine.
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holy crap on a cracker - these threads have taken a turn for the ball-less.
I'm an EE that writes sw. Period. I do it because I love electronics and have a deathly fear of anything at and over 120V.
Do you people even understand the difference between civil engineers and electrical engineers? The civils build targets.....
Seriously, the worse thing I ever saw was in the .com boom where anyone who could hack html - and I mean old school - meant the could "do software". Yeah, I said, have fun. Call me when you are serious.....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've been nearly electrocuted at 230V, hasn't stopped me from working on electrical / electronic projects yet. What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
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S u n s h i n e wrote: What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
I suspect the correct answer is 'carefully'
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Or by running it on a very low amperage.
I have a device at home (for hairstyling) which makes 200kV.
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Talk to Roger Wright, a CP member of long-standing. He builds substations for his local electrical utility for fun.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I talk with computer in .... language. Before 15 years ago I used binary language, but now a days, the computers get more smarter and some of them can understand C# language also. I basically command to computer to do something. 
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Sanjay K. Gupta wrote: some of them can understand C# language also
Well, they can't!
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I don't care what they do either.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Here is what I get quite often:
Them: What do you do for a living?
Me: I'm a software programmer.
Them: O so you work in IT?
Me: Yes you can say that (but far from the truth)
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Go to Canada. In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer - software or otherwise - unless you join a legal closed shop.
Most of the professionals I've met have been idle or thieving, but hey, once you get on with the rules you're untouchable.
So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order.
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