Either, "whoa. Better you than me." Or, "why aren't you working with your dad and your brother?" (I'm a middle school humanities teacher. Family business is manufacturing a specific piece of carbon fiber sports equipment.)
I just started a part time tissue culture job in a research lab. this is my first job back after 11 years of staying home. My job prior to kids was in clinical cytogenetics. Samples were set up/maintained/harvested on a daily basis so we had weekend/holiday rotations.
I'm still getting used to how laid back this research schedule is.
Hahaha. Academia? I'm trying to go the other way and keep realizing fuuuuuck... I'mma haffa show up at an agreed uppn time and shjt. Not cool.
I think the 2nd worst part of the clinical schedule was trying to fill time when when the work was done. Almost like a punishment for being efficient.
The absolute worst was the weekend/holiday/oncall rotation.
Hahaha. Academia? I'm trying to go the other way and keep realizing fuuuuuck... I'mma haffa show up at an agreed uppn time and shjt. Not cool.
I'm moving that way too, FastHands. Can't show up at 10 anymore, lol.
Stem cells and their derivatives are assholes. They need something everyday because they hate me.
S'what I was sayin! They are needy bitches, so if you can keep em happy, I'm inpressed. I may look at a group that does some awesome cljnical work but it's all stwm cell regeneration based and fuuuuuck I don't wanna. Lol. In my workd I'm badass just because I grow cells w/o abx when most ppl can't keep em clean otherwise. But that's like elementary shit for stem cells.
Hahaha. Academia? I'm trying to go the other way and keep realizing fuuuuuck... I'mma haffa show up at an agreed uppn time and shjt. Not cool.
I think the 2nd worst part of the clinical schedule was trying to fill time when when the work was done. Almost like a punishment for being efficient.
The absolute worst was the weekend/holiday/oncall rotation.
Ugh yeah. I'm really trying to leave the lab altogwther for trials management/operations, but NO ONE WILL TALK TO MEEEEEEEEE so I will probably be back at the bench forwverrrrrrrrrfuck.
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Post by Captain Serious on May 2, 2017 22:25:09 GMT -5
"Oh. Interesting..." as they trail off and change the subject
or
"I better behave."
Or, if they really do want to talk about it, "Why is it so complicated?" Followed by them launching into their personal philosophical/political beliefs.
I'm a corrections/criminal justice policy analyst (used to be a legislative analyst).
Now that I'm not working, I get the pity face. Especially when I bump into random people in the conference areas/towns where I travel with h.
I often answer with "I'm a freeloader"
I tell people that I'm a trophy wife, but I'm currently looking for work, since it's not as lucrative as it might sound.
I don't usually get any response, since people don't really know how to take it.
Ah, fellow military spouse, right? I say similar variations when work hunting. And then there's a lot of thank him for his service. Occasionally I get thanked. Usually both thanks are obsequious and uncomfortable. However, I appreciate the seemingly genuine ones, especially when I get acknowledged that it's involved me sacrificing any semblance of a career.
But, really, I don't get asked this.
Depending on job, I've gotten, ohhhh, can you look at my computer? Can you look at this rash? Um, not sure what that entails, but sounds cool. I usually answer generically enough that people aren't given much of an opening to respond. A bit harder with job titles like lawyer, accountant, teacher, etc. where people have some (probably wildly incorrect) idea what it's about.
"My mom/friend/cousin/brother/neighbor is a nurse." Often followed by "Do you know So and so?" especially if said person happens to work for my same health system of which there are 10,000 employees. So the answer is usually um yeah, no.
Back when I had a career, "I test TV/video on [popular video game console]." -- "Oh, cool, when is XYZ game coming out?" No idea, I don't test games, I basically watch TV all day for a living.
Currently as a SAHW, I get a derisive, "It must be nice." Yes, yes it is. So sometimes I say, "Oh, I'm a SAHW who volunteers at the library and I have a very part time hobby job bottling whiskey." Then people get stupid exciting about the whiskey bottling because it must be SO FUN, but really it's 4 hours of standing on concrete doing a repetitive task in a loud warehouse. I mean, it's kind of fun or I wouldn't do it, but it's not glamorous in the slightest.