As the old joke goes, at a party a doctor and a lawyer were talking. The doctor complained that people kept asking him for professional advice. The lawyer was sympathetic, and said he used to have the same problem. The doctor asked asked what had changed. The lawyer said that whenever he'd been asked for professional advice, he'd send a bill the next day, and people soon learned. The doctor heartily lauded this technique, and vowed to do the same. The next morning, he got a bill from the lawyer.
That your job should be that interesting is a good point. But I imagine the sort of things people are likely to ask "in passing" tend to be well-meaning but (a) endless repetitions of the most obvious misconceptions about your job and (b) talking about fairly obvious problems that need a high level of detail checking.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-11-09 11:38 am
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That your job should be that interesting is a good point. But I imagine the sort of things people are likely to ask "in passing" tend to be well-meaning but (a) endless repetitions of the most obvious misconceptions about your job and (b) talking about fairly obvious problems that need a high level of detail checking.