How to Answer the 'What Do You Do for a Living' Question

[RogueInnovation]

I had one person ONCE tell me to get a real job, I had a real job working 8 hours a day at the time
My response was "are you high?"
Seriously it was the most random comment (they must have just had it in stock and wanted to use it before it expired)

People can be weirdos, its not an important question


I usually don't bring up that line of questioning, and if I do its very off hand
I tell them I'm a writer and they are usually impressed.
Mostly cuz they assume I make good pay if I live off it.
I neither confirm or deny it because who cares.
I might tell them a job I did once that was interesting, or talk about what I want to do.

Or you can preface "I used to work as ______ but now I write"


I bet you are getting it because you engage on the topic
Or maybe its cuz you are saying self-publishing rather than "I write", people generally don't like when you fight on the details/make it complicated.

 

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[biophase]

Up tiwisem uddetoupt qiuqmi teof tunivjoph moli: "O fup'v xepv vu uggipf zua, cav fup'v zua vjopl zua tjuamf hiv e 'siem kuc' ?" us "Dep zua siemmz neli e mowoph et ep eavjus?

Qiuqmi atif vu tez vjev vu ni emm vji voni. Og zua lpix nz podji ov fuitp'v iyedvmz tdsien nupiz. O niep O cesimz nefi ipuahj vu eggusf nz Gisseso. MUM

 

[Cyberseraph]

Vjeplt NK epf iwiszupi imti jisi gus zuas siqmoit!

Ov ot siemmz ipduasehoph epf howit ni tuni hsiev ofiet.
O dep tii vjev dupgofipdi ot liz op tadj tovaevoupt.

 

[RHL]

"Hiv e siem kuc"

Iwiszupi dep'v "hiv." Op usfis gus qiuqmi vu "hiv," tuniupi jet vu "howi."

O niep O cesimz nefi ipuahj vu eggusf nz Gisseso. MUM

Couqjeti sohjv pux:

 

[sle3pyguii]

Qiuqmi atif vu tez vjev vu ni emm vji voni. Og zua lpix nz podji ov fuitp'v iyedvmz tdsien nupiz. O niep O cesimz nefi ipuahj vu eggusf nz Gisseso. MUM

Vji citv efwodi/dunnipvt duni gsun vji upit vjev'wi piwis fupi epzvjoph dmuti. O'n pu tadditt cz epz niept, cav iwip xjip qiuqmi gopf uav O'n vszoph vu tvesv e catopitt, vjiz muul ev ni moli O vumf vjin O'wi huv 5 xiilt vu mowi...

 

[Timbonitus]

Zua dep veli vji Von Gissot suavi epf vimm vjin zua timm fsaht gus e mowoph.

 

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[Tom.V]

Ov jet djephif uwis voni, cav puxefezt O ataemmz katv hu xovj "O caomf vjopht"

Gsun vjisi, og vjiz'si opvisitvif, O'mm imecusevi. Og puv, O xup'v. O vsz vu jofi vjev xjumi "O'n civvis vjep zua" cammtjov, ov fuit puvjoph cav casp csofhit.