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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

So what do you do for a living?

Sometimes, at the end of a pretty stressful week, I attend a social function. My hint, generally, is when the wife throws some clean clothes at me and says, "Here, change into this, we're going out."

There, I often meet interesting people who ask what I do for a living, and I am always a bit at a loss to describe my engineering job. So I came up with this:

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3 comments:

  1. RenaudNovember 2, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    Ouch! I guess I took the right decision not to become an engineer!

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  2. Fred the GrumblerNovember 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    C'mon. Chainsaws! Kittens! NITRO! We get all the cool toys! They pay us to do stuff we'd do for free otherwise! Doesn't that beat deconstructive structuralism or whatever you're doing, Mr. Academia?

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  3. RenaudNovember 3, 2011 at 6:54 AM

    Well, now that I think about it... If kittens were replaced by pandas, then yes, I might be tempted!

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