Your job defines you

[Okuza]

Yes, really, it does. Not so much if you're a car mechanic or a waitress, but if you're in any of the "professional" fields, you're type-cast the instant you open your mouth. Lawyers lie all the time, not only when they open their mouths. Doctors go home and do surgery on their cats because they don't get enough at work. And, heaven help you if you ever had anything to do with computing.

If someone finds out you ever wrote code, especially if you were good at it by implication (eg. worked at a known company), you surely must eat, breath, and sleep, and even sh*t silicon. I wonder how many more decades it will be before computers are treated as no more novel a tool than a hammer. No one tells you all their stories about using a hammer.

Gah. Don't mind me. I just got back from a party where I got cornered by a seemingly endless stream of idiots all of whom wanted to babble at me "talking shop" after they found out what I used to do. It was really only 3 people, but it was all in a row. Escape one, and another attacks.

[Alya Mizar (Tsybil)]

The is a line you need to memorize.

"Oh, but enough about me, tell me...." from there the tree branches out.

Another tactic is to ignore the question and just keep a monologue going about something different. Sports, music, the weather, horses, submarines, whatever.

A girl I knew used to fall into a totally unshakable alternate persona. Total and obvious shift, body language, voice, IQ level, everything. Started out "Oh hi, I'm Debbie, I'm an Aquarius, I like unicorns, what's your sign?"

Worst comes to worse, you say "That's an interesting problem. Here, take my card and stop by my (office) (shop) I Think I can (help you) (fix that) My rates are $/hour. You can even hand them an air card.

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