I get one of two things, both of which are annoying. First, "Well, you know what they say- those who can do, those who can't, teach! (Thanks. I teach grade 4. Pretty sure my times tables and paragraph writing is solid.) Second, "I had a terrible grade 4 teacher (or my nephew did, or my daughter did, or my neighbour's cat's cousin's vet's assistant's window washer did... While I'm sad that you had a crappy experience in school, it's not the case for everyone.
I've done tech support and have been a tech trainer teaching everything from "here's the power button" to "let's program macros in access" and beyond.
Yes, it takes patience to teach a group full of adults who think they know more than they do (b/c they're otherwise competent professionals in their own fields) basic computer skills. The stories...
If I say accountant: "You must be good at math!" NOPE. "Can you do my taxes?" NOPE. Or if it's around April, I get "you must be busy this time of year" Actually this isn't my busy time.
When I was in private practice: "do you do divorces"? Answer: "no, I'm in international mergers and acquisitions and private equity." Reaction: "....".
Now that I'm in-house: "I'm a lawyer with a global US based industrial group". Reaction: "...." or some story about a trip to the US.
It goes one of 2 ways (cancer research): 1) the awed/impressed "that's so cool/you must be so smart!" Orrr 2) the confident-there's-already-a-cure crowd, broken into (2a) how do you sleep at night taking fundraising money when you already know how to help people, and (2b) does it bother you that the government has a cure but won't tell anyone?
Holy heck to this. At least you know to avoid them for the rest of the party.
I get some iteration of "No, I mean what did you used to do (unspoken: before you started doing nothing)" because I sah.
"Are you going to go back to an office once the kids are both in school?"
(I'm a freelance editor [academic research journals]. I make my own hours and have complete freedom, and a nearly unlimited pool of work, so NO, I don't want to "get a real job" in an office.)
I'm a software developer, sometimes when I tell people they ask me about some computer issue they are having and I'm like ... uhhhm I don't know anything about computers ... I can't even figure out the remote for my TV. I just write lines of code on a screen