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From: beslove@osu-eddie.UUCP (Adam Beslove)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intell
Message-ID: <454@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 23:16:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 23:16:12 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:41:19 EDT
References: <1030@trwatf.UUCP> <33100024@ISM780.UUCP>
Reply-To: beslove@osu-eddie.UUCP (Adam Beslove)
Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh.
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In article <33100024@ISM780.UUCP> darryl@ISM780.UUCP writes:
>
>Dear Net Landers:
>
>At my job I work on C compilers, for a software company
>that specializes in doing Unix ports.  When I meet people socially, a
>frequently asked question is "What do you do for a living?"  How can I
>answer without being boorish or boring?  For example
>
>"What do you do?"
>
>How can I answer this without making them feel like they are stupid?
>
>(--Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.

Tell them you're a @i(computer scientist), and they'll be impressed and
you'll have implicitly said it's a very technical subject.  If you say it
with a few Groucho raises of they eyebrows, you'll also have broken some ice.

>>>>Adam Beslove    (c)1985     (aka Odious Verity)
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