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My dad does understand what I do. Actually anybody who has used any software, ever in their lifetime, can easily get the underlying idea. Well, my mom doesn't.
The real problem however is when they tell somebody that I am a software developer. Most of the time that somebody interprets that I am a kind of a computer-repair guy and then starts calling me up whenever his pc won't boot up. I would rather say I am unemployed.
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My mom often ask me what exactly I am doing. I explain her by giving her real life example like software she is using in her Bank.
And then she Shockley ask me..are all software developer work for whole day and night like you do.
hahaha..
really my family knows what software is... but do not know whats development is. 
Just Code..
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"Hello, I'm xxxx. What do you do?"
"Hello, I'm Greg, I'm a software developer."
"Good heavens! Is that the time? Must dash, my eyes have an appointment with a pair of needles."
"Hello, I'm xxxx. What do you do?"
"Hello, I'm Greg, I'm an axe murderer."
"Really? How interesting! I've always wanted to meet one. Do tell me more...."
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Hard to tell if they don't really know what I'm doing or just don't give a rat's a**.
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A few of my family and friends genuinely thought I spent all day hammering ones and zeros into notepad
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After I bought my computer my mom asked why my television was smaller than her television and yet expensive than her television.
One day I was playing a game on my pc and my father saw it. So, here how the conversation went:
dad: did you built this game.
me : no.
dad: can you make any game.
me : not yet(I was in second year of studying computer science at University)
dad: Will you ever be able to build a computer game.
me : only by myself? it would not be interesting at all.
dad: humm. You can still change your career if you want....
Here is a conversation I had with my uncle who wanted me to join his company as Junior Merchandiser:
uncle: Johny(my nick in my family), please make me this excel format.
me: I don't know how to work with excel, never tried.
uncle: our operator can do this and you are an engineer.
me : I said, if you want I will build you an spread sheet application may take several years.
uncle: is there any good use of computer engineer?
An conversation with my father's coworker, I used to call him uncle:
uncle: my son is learning Java at an IT training school. Do you know Java?
me: There is very few company who work with Java in Bangladesh, I am more interested in Visual basic and C#
uncle: What kind of language is Java? Is this Japanese
Here is conversation between me and my aunt:
aunt: Why aren't you using your computer(its a bizarre scene seeing me without my hand on keyboard)
me: my computer is effected with virus, looking for a way to solve it.
aunt: your computer is suppose to be effected with virus. You always eat in front of your computer.
well, there is still many more........................ I actually can write a book compiling those conversation.
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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What's the moral of it (of conversations)?
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We are all coming from different backgrounds and cultures.
We are all individually different in real life.
The way that we think, interpret, deliver and analyze messages are different from each other.
Even, the same words or phrases are used, it might not reflected the same context in different individual's mind.
Do not always assume others will understand what we are thinking.
Do not always assume you understand what others are thinking.
To fully understood what others thoughts and feels, you have to actually "listen" to the real meaning behind the verbal message spoken by the speakers.
A same way of conveying a message doesn't not work on everybody.
To successfully convey a message, you have to first understand the listener's mind.
but when you are trying to convey a message of feeling or love....
Ronan Keating suggested that,
people have tried to use beautiful words, but.....sometimes...
You say it best, when you say nothing at all[^], which... might be the universal language in the people of the world.
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTp5MTlq4GU[^]
modified 20-Jun-14 0:45am.
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Thank you 
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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PS. I love Ronan Keating songs.
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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adriancs wrote: The way that we think, interpret, deliver and analyze messages are different from each other.
I disagree with this statement: "The way that we think (...) are different", but agree with the other part.
The process of thinking is - in general - the same, but the results of thinking can be differ depending on man's culture, religion, etc.
When i asked Mohibur Rashid about the moral of "family's conversation", i expected to know the "result" of His thinking. I wanted to know what He's trying to tell...
Are we clear now?
Cheers,
Maciej
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Yes, it is now very clear that you only want the answer from Mohibur Rashid only.
Let's take this as example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151005/create-excel-xls-and-xlsx-file-from-c-sharp[^]
The poster has asked a question, 686 people upvoted his question, which means he was asking on behalf of 686 unknown people. The top answer received 358 votes (thanking him for providing the answer).
In this type of forum, when we ask a question, we are not only asking it to specific person, we ask it to the rest of the world. Whoever has the answer, he or she may answer it, for the rest of the world.
Since the replies are opened to public, my sharing is not only for you.
I'm sharing my thoughts to whoever has visited/passed by this page.
If the message is good, it will somehow benefits someone in the world.
If the message is bad, it will be corrected by someone for the world.
(I will learn new idea, I share and I learn.)
If someone has better idea, he or she will enhance/extend the message, for the rest of the world.
We are all learning from each other's experiences/mistakes.
We are all standing on top of each other's works.
This is how the technology evolves.
You might say that: Hey, I did this C# project totally on my own experience.
Yes, you are. But,
how about the invention of C# language?
how about the invention of Computer?
Aren't we still standing on top of other works?
This is the special characteristic of codeproject.com, we are all sharing,
nothing personal here.
modified 20-Jun-14 20:02pm.
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Too funny!
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I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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Good for it's resistance, a virus now and then. Makes the immune-system work
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The only people are previous or current coworkers, my wife, and some other industry friends. I've found only people in the industry know what we do, and only some of them at best.
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Agreed, I'm in the same boat. My wife is not technical at all, but she knows exactly what I do for a living, and has a good understanding of what it entails. The rest of my family, sees no difference between me, and the guy at Geek Squad.
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I'm a Sql Server DBA married to an Oracle DBA.
We talk shop all the time. Nice to have someone to vent with who really understands. She can also answer my questions when I have to connect to Oracle.
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OT - Are you the word famous Abu Mami of Kaluach?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I love your work!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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My family have little idea about what am I doing
but obviously they don't know the brief.. and I do not expect it from them
some of my school friends are not in IT/CE field...
I remember an incidence. I was traveling in bus with my two friends; I was doing discussion on some technical issues with my friend who is also in IT firm
at that time my another friend's expressions were like below...
Me: Today there was a problem with javascript...
My friend: oh ya! what was that?..
another friend:
 ... javascript! what is that???
 ... Leave it.
 ... it's better to get sleep instead of this mysterious conversation.
After some time...
 ... oh god! they are still talking on same topic 
 ... Thank god I am not a software developer!
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