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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Occupational Questions...

Stephen Dubner, one of the two people behind Freakonomics, comes up with a bleg forwarded by a reader:

When I’m at a party and get asked what I do (I am an architect), I always hear one of the same five responses:

+ What kind of architecture do you do?

+ Hey, you can design my dream home!

+ I like Frank Lloyd Wright, do you think he’s good?

+ My brother/father/aunt is an architect.

+ I thought about going into architecture.

All of these responses are fine, but just knowing how consistent they are, it makes me wonder in what ways I ask stereotypical questions of others.

It would be nice to avoid this by having a list of what jobs get what kinds of responses. This idea has led to many interesting party conversations — because many times, the responses are not so nice!

So here’s my bleg question: what are the typical responses you hear when you tell people what you do?

So, how about myself? Well I have given up (mostly) trying to explain people what I do in detail...

I am a computational chemist. people usually says one of these two things:

  • - A what?!?
  • - Complicational Chemistry? Uh, interesting... I sucked at chemistry in high school / college / primary / whatever...

So, how about you?

3 comments:

PAC said...

Ehm, io bazzico nell'ingegneria informatica...

C'è qualcosa di più frainteso o fraintendibile?

Che computer mi conviene comprare?
Mi si è piantato il computer! Non so come ho fatto...
Il computer fa quello che vuole lui...
Mi faresti il sito web?!

E tutto il resto che puoi benissimo immaginare.
Credo che allo stato attuale sia tra le discipline più fraintese del cosmo intero...

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