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In my experience, the only people who don't enjoy talking about what they do probably feel some sense of inferiority or patronizement (word?) to/from the questioner. I never pegged you as anything other than a Proud Lion, Joe.

Wife bringing you to those Kenilworth & Highland Park shindigs?


It's not that. I just don't find professional talk very interesting. It's usually pretty mundane.

I don't think I have anything on the North Shore. One in Rogers Park this week and then one in Boystown next week.


Got a construction one next friday with all irish guys. Might be some drinking there.

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Im with JORR on this . Just had rogue jr's 4th b-day party last weekend at one of those jump around kids places. 13 kids from his daycare came, most with their Dads ( guess it was Moms day off for this) so it sort of fell to me to take point and engage these guys . When Im not being sent home from it, I guess my job is somewhat interesting to people so that was the general conversation opener for these guys." So Barb tells me you're a *******" ( I know, douche or asswipe suffices as well) I fucking HATE talking about my job ( except on message boards) and I give very little back in the way of feedback to indicate I want to continue the conversation. So the conversation dies out and we sit there with out arms crossed looking at little jimmy fall off the monkey bars. Great way to spend a day off.

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Im with JORR on this . Just had rogue jr's 4th b-day party last weekend at one of those jump around kids places. 13 kids from his daycare came, most with their Dads ( guess it was Moms day off for this) so it sort of fell to me to take point and engage these guys . When Im not being sent home from it, I guess my job is somewhat interesting to people so that was the general conversation opener for these guys." So Barb tells me you're a *******" ( I know, douche or asswipe suffices as well) I fucking HATE talking about my job ( except on message boards) and I give very little back in the way of feedback to indicate I want to continue the conversation. So the conversation dies out and we sit there with out arms crossed looking at little jimmy fall off the monkey bars. Great way to spend a day off.


I'm OK,the small children broke my fall.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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It's not about handling it with aplomb. It's a bullshit question. Nobody really cares. Maybe I'll just say I'm a lawyer. Or a used car salesman.



It is a bullshit question, but many people really care. It's a common way that men judge each other.


I guess you're kind of hitting what I don't like about the question. It's most often asked not out of sincere interest, but rather as a way of sizing one up.


I have stayed gainfully employed since 1977,that's all they need to know.

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I think I'm just going to answer, "I'm a middleman" without any further elaboration.


:lol: That's good.

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What if someone says yes?


Start dancing and ask them if they'd like a Handy Andy.

I like to know what people do. It's interesting, sometimes you learn something, sometime you can help somebody out or they can help you, sometimes you can pay someone a compliment. People spend a lot of time at their job, if they like it you get a sense of who they are, if they don't you might get a sense of how happy/unhappy they are or what motivates them.


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Spaulding wrote:
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What if someone says yes?


Start dancing and ask them if they'd like a Handy Andy.

I like to know what people do. It's interesting, sometimes you learn something, sometime you can help somebody out or they can help you, sometimes you can pay someone a compliment. People spend a lot of time at their job, if they like it you get a sense of who they are, if they don't you might get a sense of how happy/unhappy they are or what motivates them.


Yeah, some people have interesting jobs. And I guess some people might find at least some of the stuff I do/have done to make money interesting. I just don't think that's why most people ask the question.

We all need money to live. I think there are a lot more interesting things to talk about than how we make it. This may be how I answer the question this weekend: "I'm not going to tell you what I do. But I will tell you what I love."

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ask them if they'd like a Handy Andy.

I have no idea what this means. Please explain.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

Yeah, some people have interesting jobs. And I guess some people might find at least some of the stuff I do/have done to make money interesting. I just don't think that's why most people ask the question.

We all need money to live. I think there are a lot more interesting things to talk about than how we make it. This may be how I answer the question this weekend: "I'm not going to tell you what I do. But I will tell you what I love."


Some people do what they love. I don't work, I think jobs are interesting.


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ask them if they'd like a Handy Andy.

I have no idea what this means. Please explain.


A guy gives another guy a hand job.


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Spaulding wrote:
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ask them if they'd like a Handy Andy.

I have no idea what this means. Please explain.


A guy gives another guy a hand job.

That didn't end as fun as I expected. :|

You've lost your fastball.

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Spaulding wrote:
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Yeah, some people have interesting jobs. And I guess some people might find at least some of the stuff I do/have done to make money interesting. I just don't think that's why most people ask the question.

We all need money to live. I think there are a lot more interesting things to talk about than how we make it. This may be how I answer the question this weekend: "I'm not going to tell you what I do. But I will tell you what I love."


Some people do what they love. I don't work, I think jobs are interesting.


Do you really think that? I know I hear people say that they love what they do. And of course we know the old saying, "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." I've had jobs I've hated and jobs I haven't hated. But I've never had one I loved. I love training racehorses. But if I absolutely had to be at that barn every morning at 6:00 a.m., it would be a job and I don't think I'd love it anymore.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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Yeah, some people have interesting jobs. And I guess some people might find at least some of the stuff I do/have done to make money interesting. I just don't think that's why most people ask the question.

We all need money to live. I think there are a lot more interesting things to talk about than how we make it. This may be how I answer the question this weekend: "I'm not going to tell you what I do. But I will tell you what I love."


Some people do what they love. I don't work, I think jobs are interesting.


Do you really think that? I know I hear people say that they love what they do. And of course we know the old saying, "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." I've had jobs I've hated and jobs I haven't hated. But I've never had one I loved. I love training racehorses. But if I absolutely had to be at that barn every morning at 6:00 a.m., it would be a job and I don't think I'd love it anymore.


I love what I do.

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Some people pay bills and some hate their jobs but yeah I know a good amount that love what they do.


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100% with JORR on this. I hate talking about work, mine or yours.

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My stock answer is; I do a little of everything and a lot of nothing.


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I guess you're kind of hitting what I don't like about the question. It's most often asked not out of sincere interest, but rather as a way of sizing one up.


Not disagreeing here, but that thought just never really occurred to me
Really, I could care less what anyone does for a living...wouldn't make me think any more or less of a person , unless it was something really bad like a pimp or something i guess


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I guess you're kind of hitting what I don't like about the question. It's most often asked not out of sincere interest, but rather as a way of sizing one up.


Not disagreeing here, but that thought just never really occurred to me
Really, I could care less what anyone does for a living...wouldn't make me think any more or less of a person , unless it was something really bad like a pimp or something i guess


Me either, which is why I wouldn't ask the question. My go-to icebreaker is "Where are you from?" What neighborhood did you grow up in? What high school did you go to? Most people are going to be from Chicago or the suburbs and I know enough about various places that the conversation can take off from there. If they're not from Chicago, I still usually know a fact or two about a place that I can roll the discussion from there.

One time I asked a girl where she was from and she said, "A small town in Southern Illinois. You've never heard of it." I told her to try me and she said it was Olney. I started right in on white squirrels. I'm pretty sure I got laid that night.

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Olney? Wasn't he the one making fun of Kenny Williams on Twitter?

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One time I asked a girl where she was from and she said, "A small town in Southern Illinois. You've never heard of it." I told her to try me and she said it was Olney. I started right in on white squirrels. I'm pretty sure I got laid that night.


good thing she didn't say Cairo and you started right in on the lynchings....


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One time I asked a girl where she was from and she said, "A small town in Southern Illinois. You've never heard of it." I told her to try me and she said it was Olney. I started right in on white squirrels. I'm pretty sure I got laid that night.


good thing she didn't say Cairo and you started right in on the lynchings....


Usually just knowing how to properly pronounce Cairo is good enough to get you respect.

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When I tell people where I work they assume I fall into one of two categories. I'm either an obscenely rich trader or a runner making minimum wage


As if there is nothing inbetween


My job is kinda interesting to people so if I want to talk to them I open up, if not I just say I work in an office for a food company


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I'd advise you to try "importer." Deny that you are an exporter if they ask.

Actually, I introduce myself at an event like that as, "Hi, I'm Steve Sarley. My friends call me "Sparky."
When they call me Steve, I stop them and correct them.
It cracks me up and totally pisses my wife off.


So, Sparky, what do you import?

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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I'm bracing myself to hear this goddamn small talk bullshit question countless times as my wife drags me to party after party throughout the holiday season. Who cares? If you're gonna talk about what you do, it better be something real fucking interesting like an astronaut, a professional big game hunter, or a light bulb salesman. I think I'm just going to answer, "I'm a middleman" without any further elaboration. Don't ask me that shit. Ask me what I love. I'll talk all day. I'll wax poetic about the Raspberries' "Go All The Way", the great pacer, Riyadh, the 1988 March of Dimes Trot at Garden State Park, the career of Henry Armstrong, Perry Ellis suits, the motherfuckin' White Sox, E-Class Benzes, and working class Catholic girls from Chicago. Don't ask me what the fuck I do.

This answer disappoints me, Joe.

I had thought that you could handle a question like this with dignified and effortless aplomb.


It's not about handling it with aplomb. It's a bullshit question. Nobody really cares. Maybe I'll just say I'm a lawyer. Or a used car salesman.


Joe, if that is your real name, the question does matter, at least when I ask it in conversation. The answer leads to the next step of whether I am going to be working you as a potential client. You are in sales. You know this.

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What do you do for a living?
Sarley: i'm the Chaunce's bitch

:lol:

Sarley is still an all-time good sport about that

But man if Chaunce knew about that Sparky thing....


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