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!)
Yeah but developed a quick explanation for it: Industrial water treatment tech for HVAC. You know how having a swimming pool or hot tub requires some chemistry? I do that for water in boilers and cooling towers used to heat or cool big buildings
Nope, building prototypes, running experiments and develop stuff is rather easy to explain.
Explaining where i work is the harder part.
No. I’ve long given up to even bother trying.
Reading the first several posts… Is everyone here in IT? 🤣🤣
Ask me again in UDP
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I’m sorry I only do TCP
UDP world DGAF
Mostly, yeah
Given you are using niche forum software. Yes, most likely.
There are DONZENS of us!
I do computer
Bleep bloop bleep
heyo yeeeeee
Mine is usually pretty simple to explain. I do CNC, which is cutting objecting/materials into useful shapes using big machines.
Yep.
Network engineer here. I can’t count the number of times my mom says I’m in programming.
After a few years, my wife figured out the best way to describe my job. Doctor of the internet. This was because I was working in operations at the time and would fix network outages regularly.
Did you put an SR to get thru her (mom’s) firewall first?
Yes, I do. I’m a devops engineer and even “coding camp devs” have problems understanding what I do for a living.
I think most devs even only have worked in software companies that sell software where devops isn’t as critical and complex since there’s not “production” environments. When you work for a company who makes software for themselves and/or hosts software from other companies themselves, devops is a much bigger deal. Even moreso if it’s a heavily regulated industry like healthcare. Most other companies don’t spend much on devops or even often make the developers do that work themselves.
Depends on wether I want them to understand. If I just say we are the ISP for universities and other schools of higher education then they mostly go, “Ah okay”, but it seems like no one has any idea what that means. I feel like despite using them daily people don’t even know what a network is sometimes.
I am a clerk in a bakery.
I mostly put bread in bags, and those bags on shelves.
Yes. I’m a near surface geophysicist. So I don’t look for oil or minerals but I do try to figure out what’s going on underground without digging. Mostly looking for mine or karst voids under new construction.
I cast spells that make the runes etched in sand translate the energy of magic stones into dancing light.
Usually I just tell people that I work in IT and leave it at that.
“Hey so does that mean you can fix my laptop and make my next gen app idea for free?”
Of course!
I’m in DevOps, so anyone not in tech has no idea what I do/what that means. So, I end up just saying “I work in IT”.
My new doctor didn’t like that answer when we were making small talk and wanted a more detailed answer, so I tell him. He looks at his nurse and says: did any of that make sense?
Huh, I came to say pretty much the same thing. I’m DevOps, more or less, by I tell people I’m a programmer since that’s what I do
Yep. Sometimes I can’t even figure out what they pay me for.
Guess my job based on the following description:
I sell a product to a people who don’t believe they have any use for it during what they consider their personal time.
Answer:
Tap for spoiler
I am a middle school math teacher.
