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From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit)
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Subject: Re: Re: Showing Off (Athletics VS Intell
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 19:41:06 EDT
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> 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?"
>     "I write compilers." 
> nobody outside the industry knows what that is...
>
> How can I answer this without making them feel like they are
> stupid, but also avoiding the path "It's a very technical job,
> you wouldn't understand
> without a longwinded and boring discussion"?
> 
> (--Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
> 
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     How about-

     "I'm a free-lance wierdo and computer junkie."

     People I have talked to seem to like that; I'm a hardware type.

				From the alter ego of--

				Kchula-Rrit