I'm a Software Developer, but I don't work with computers

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By karldmoore
via karldmoore.blogspot.com
Published: Nov 13 2007 / 04:35

Let me set the scene for you. Your at a friends party and you meet up with some new people. After the opening pleasantries, the conversation soon comes around to your day job. So I start off with the obvious, "I'm a software developer." This usually leaves people quite puzzled so I try a different approach, "I write computer software." And it's at this point you here those words you dread so much, "ahhhh you work with computers!".

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FlySwat replied ago:

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I don't really write software, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

kdavies replied ago:

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I get this kind of thing all the time. I usually end up helping the person. Most the time it ends of being something really simple that any person mildly computer literate could solve. Once though I was helping a friend and I was really afraid I had just wiped out everything on the computer that he used for everything at his car dealership. Fortunately he was ignorant enough that he didn't realize what I did and was just happy that in the end I got everything back working and had fixed his original problem.

cg0def replied ago:

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man I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. I can't even start to tell you how many times I've been pissed off at myself for ever mentioning what I do. And the thing is that it is usually the stupid or annoying people that would assume that just because you work WITH computers you know everything about everything that is related to them. But then again if they were smart they'd actually realize that accountants, and secretaries also work WITH computers and yet know close to nothing about them ...