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Someone else makes a complicated tools for teeth doctors to record what they do and helps them keep track of how much money they are owed.
I teach people to use that tool, and fix it when it breaks. Usually both because I’ll try to explain how to do something and realize it’s broken half way through
I’m in Product management. Even my own family don’t really get what I do
Books
We have devised methods to allow performers, both thespian and musician, to be heard and seen by larger and larger audiences. These audiences can be several thousand. Imagine if an entire city came out to see the performance.
I am one of the individuals responsible for maintaining and operating those tools.
So you manage online streaming/video software?
Event production manager. Basically I’m in charge of all things sound, lights, and video for live events, like concerts, or theatrical performances.
If someone working in semiconductor manufacturing were to answer this question they would probably have to say “I make sand think” and just walk away.
Not much different than weirder than meat thinking.
For the uninitiated: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
“You know how we dug out that trench to let some of the river through for irrigation, and then we fill it in for winter? Yeah I do that, but much smaller, and much faster, on sand. Got a shovel?”
I work for a training department for a large financial institution. I think I could explain it as teaching people how to do their job better. Though I don’t actually do much teaching, personally.
As a programmer, I’d just tell them “I configure contraptions to perform tasks for people”
“You know how clockwork automatons work?”
“No.”
“Me neither.”
Magic. Got it.
"Some other guys figured out how to trick rocks into doing stuff by putting lightning into them
I just write to the rocks instructions for how to do some work. I get paid for doing that."
I direct a controlled form of lightning down metal wires to power electric candles, and other amazing devices.
I’m a Linux Administrator. I maintain machines that think.
I solve problems related to how lightning rocks talk to each other. Often there’s an issue with how automatic scribes decide they don’t feel like talking. Some days I must travel more than double the speed of your fastest horse using a metal box with wheels. I will often complain when my metal box picks the wrong music to play.
Hmm… I’m a cosplayer/erotica model. So a seamstress that gets naked for money? Not too outlandish, but they’d never understand what cosplay was.
“I get paid to make myself clothes that I don’t wear” would probably be the most confusing way to put this
Oh gosh that’s beautiful. “I get paid to make clothes and then slowly remove them” is more accurate but not as fun
Not so. Plenty of folks liked to dress up like Greek gods or historical figures. And if you think folks in the 1700s didn’t party hard…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Emma Frost didn’t invent anything, she was inspired by actual events
I tell employers how to prevent their workers from getting killed, and of they don’t listen, I tell the government to make sure the employer can’t work like that.
And most of the workers find me annoying for it.
This is actually one of the things that would confuse a 1700 person the most. Why would the government care about the lives of workers?
You absolutely do not have to answer. But do you work for OSHA?
I do workplace safety, just not in the US. So, kind of.
That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing!
HR?
Ouch. No, workplace safety
sorry, it was a bit low. Have a good day, safety man!
I mean, yeah. The theater goes back to at least Ancient Greece. So they’d know what I’m talking about, even if the job duties have shifted slightly throughout the centuries.
Not hard. I accept money and give it out on behalf of my Lords and Ladies, I mean, employers.
