Saying “I catch fish” is as descriptive as the first guy saying “sales analyst”. Second person is a software developer, second guy is a systems architect. So you catch fish? Sure. What kind? On a river? In the ocean? Do you really just press a button that rolls up a big net full of turtles and dolphins as well and you’re destroying the delicate balance of a fragile ecosystem? Are you a fishing guide?
Anyone can describe their job in three words. Understanding it is on you, man.
test
Emails and meetings
You just successfully described 95% of modern office jobs
I melt plastic?
I fix shit
I can’t say.
Make missiles hit.
Maybe don’t.
He’s a fertility doc.
You’d think that would help but it probably means they just send more missiles and hit more random things around the target.
Maybe they should leak the tech so that everyone’s missiles can be more accurate and have less collateral damage. Giving missile targeting systems to, say, Al Qaida is ethical, actually? 🤔
So I either have a bullshit job “I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks” or a real job “I herd electrons”…
I verb nouns
If someone is willing to pay you enough to live for a bullshit job, is it really a bullshit job?
I pull beef
i make websites
Can confirm this works, since fullstack is a real job, but I can’t describe my frontend bullshit in 3 words.
I suck dick
Nice to see you here Mr. President.
Ah, it’s nice to meet another fellow customer service rep.
I write code
(It’s still a bullshit job)
I generate bugs.
Honest.
I am an aquatic resource acquisition specialist leveraging distributed ecosystem monitoring, real-time biological signal analytics, and manual-mechanical retrieval interfaces to optimize biomass extraction.
