Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!apr!osu-eddie!beslove 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 Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.454 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. Lines: 24 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) ====================================================================== (UUCP: ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!beslove) (CSNet: beslove@ohio-state) The world is my sandbox, (ARPA: beslove%ohio-state.csnet@CSNET-RELAY) humanity my playmates.