Not really. I tell them it’s like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.
Ugh, why did I immediately jump to working with pigs? I’m still scarred.
Yeah, I work in cyber forensics where everything I do is confidential, so yeah, I can’t actually explain my job which makes it difficult to explain my job
Game Dev here. More specifically, audio director. Used to be tech sound designer and composer. I find it hard to explain even over here, among the geeks like me.
“I’m a stand-up comic.”
“Ooh! Heckle me!”
“I don’t know anything about you and don’t wanna say anything mean about you. Just enjoy the moment without getting a performer to do free work for you.”
“You’re no fun.”
“Don’t have to be on all the time, let me eat my burger.”
I imagine you get these questions all the time, but how did you get into stand-up, and how did you get the guts to get up on a stage and try to be funny?
I love the idea of stand-up comedy, but I’ve been to a few open mic nights and it almost always seems like drunk people showing off, people that are hilariously unfunny, or people in the crowd that try to shit on anyone remotely trying to entertain.
I started out as a quizmaster, telling quiz for a night a week. I’d open my show with a new 45-second bit each week, built audience numbers over time.
Then I realized I’d been doing this for years, and was an incredibly prolific comic! I had enough material I could just walk out onto a stage and just lengthen out my opening bits, cause I no longer had a quiz to tell that night!
Ya I’m still lying about being laid off almost 2 years ago, so it’s kinda rough
What did you do?
I was a front end dev. I am just coasting on depression and savings until I figure out what I wanna do.
It’s hard to explain a job where I watch YouTube most of the time, and then I do random when I am asked to do some stuff.
Explaining that I’m a systems and infrastructure admin is actually easier for me than explaining my organization to people lol. Because it’s a local government agency that provides services to school districts, and people don’t really know we exist if they aren’t a district staff member themselves (and even then sometimes they don’t know!), and we’re a bit niche in our specific services, I usually just end up saying “school ISP” despite that only being a small part of it. 😂
Oh yes, I usually end up saying “I work in insurance” because any more specific than that and people look at me with question marks in their faces
Same here! It gets complicated very quickly, so I usually just say “I work in insurance” and leave it there unless they ask more questions. If they do, it doesn’t take long before their eyes start to glaze over and I change the topic to something more accessible.
It’s nice to find a fellow “insurance worker” amidst all them software engineers/ IT guys here on Lemmy 😄
There are dozens of us! (…maybe. I don’t actually have any data to back that up. You’re the only other one I’ve come across!)
My job title is an acronym, inside the company no one seems to agree on what this acronym stands for. So yes, I just say I work in the Automotive industry.
I don’t have a job, so no trouble at all.
Yes, sometimes.
I basically move and transform data.
I recently told a seven year old that I am a wizard. I already have the beard and being a programmer, that is exactly what my customers feel about my work.
I’m a florist. People understand what I do, they usually just don’t think it’s worth doing or paying me for my labor.
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No. I do not.
