[ SECRET POST #3611 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3611 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Mass Effect]


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03.
[Once Upon a Time]


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04.
(Overwatch, John McCain)


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05.
[Arrow]


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06.
[Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford]


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[Supergirl]


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08.
[The Graham Norton Show]








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Comments

Re: What question do you hate being asked?

[(Anonymous)]

"Are you still doing [scientific field]?"

No. I quit and became a circus trapeze artist. /sarcasm.

I get that anyone can quit or lose a job or career at pretty much any time and take some crazy, unexpected turn in their life, but no one ever asks this question of doctors or teachers or IT people or pretty much anyone. For some reason, people act that the career I spent 4 years in college and 3 years in grad school for and have been doing professionally for over 10 years was just some kind of whim. I think they're really just curious about what I'm up to and don't know how to open the conversation, but there's still something a little condescending about it.

Re: What question do you hate being asked?

[(Anonymous)]

Unless they're other scientists, it's fairly likely that they just don't know what the hell you do for a living besides [scientific field]. Besides, if you're in academic research, then it's not exactly uncommon for researchers to decide to go into industry or make some other horizontal career shift.

Re: What question do you hate being asked?

[(Anonymous)]

You'd think after a decade of telling my extended family about what I do, they'd just ask me what I've been doing recently rather than whether I still do it at all. My father, one of my aunts, one of my uncles, and one of my cousins are all other types of scientists and no one ever asks them if they still do it (well, my aunt and uncle don't - they retired).

Re: What question do you hate being asked?

[(Anonymous)]

You'd think after a decade of telling my extended family about what I do, they'd just ask me what I've been doing recently

DA

Yeah, I have a friend whose SO is some kind of engineer who...writes programs to correlate computer data to do with...energy usage...mostly energy used by giant corporations...or something???? It's complicated and most people don't understand it overly well, including me. So I tend to ask him more vague questions about how his job is going, rather than asking anything specific and insightful. However, I wouldn't ask him "So, are you still doing engineering?" Like, he has a DOCTORATE in that field, I'm pretty sure it's a keeper.

Asking someone if they're still doing something that's a serious career for them kind of feels like the person is saying, "I don't understand what you do and therefore I don't think of it as being a particularly valuable occupation, so I ask you about it in the terms most people would use to talk about someone's hobbies."

Re: What question do you hate being asked?

[(Anonymous)]

EXACTLY!