How often does this happen to you? I’m sitting at my laptop, reading blogs, responding to forum postings, 2 copies of visual studio open and VPN’d out to another server with its own visual studio + 15 browser windows (a typical day) and someone named Samantha (my wife, apparently) tells me, "We have be there in 30 دقیقه. Get dressed."
I get up in a daze, wander around the house confusedly, get in a car and next thing I know, I’m at a party with a beer in my hand and someone asks me, "So, what do you do for a living?"
These conversations never go well.
به من: "Ahh … I’m a solutions architect for EMC."
Nameless Person: blank stare
به من: "I work with a product called SharePoint … it’s from Microsoft."
NP: "Aha! I’ve heard of that company! What is SharePoint?"
به من: "Umm … it does collaboration … people use it to share information … It’s a platform for building busines sol…"
NP: Eyes glazing.
به من: "I’m a programmer."
NP: "Aha! I know people in my company that do programming! When I was in high school, I played around with BASIC."
And with that part of the conversation over, we turn to something easier to talk about, like politics.
Anyone care to describe how they handle this?
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We are still lucky, ’cause we can still recap in 2 words understandable to the average Joe what we do for a living (computer guy, programmer, whatever). People can relate; almost everyone has or uses a computer.
I feel more sorry for my fiancé, who has no such luxury. For one thing, he’s self-employed. For another, he has a scientific background.
At every family Christmas party, my uncles and aunts ask him what he does for a living. They do it every year. The same uncles and aunts as the year before. So if you find a good solution, please share ’cause I’d love to have a different conversation for once at Christmas. 🙂
it’s funny … because it’s true …
I usually go for "I work in IT" or "I’m a programmer" … I occasionally get people who try to understand "what it’s all about" … but they invariably go "oh yeh .. we have a server too at work . it sits under Geoff’s desk and we store all our emails on it"
At that point I go and find a bigger drink …
talk about the latest movie of Will Smith.
It is really tough conversation 🙂
Marwan Tarek
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/marwantarek
بله, very funny post. I usually say, “SharePoint is a complex web-based collaboration tool which brings together disparate data within the Corporation in one place. I help pull all that data together so people can work together”. This usually brings a blank stare as well, so after I say that I work in Computers, they sometimes say, “Oh Yes, we have SharePoint, but nobody can figure out how to use it.”
بله, I fix their computers, but I am thinking that if we all charged for it, they would stop asking. Just think if you asked a plumber you just met at a party to fix your plumbing for free! What do you think he would say? Heh…