If I say what I actually DO every day and get a paycheck for, "I'm business manager in a small business." I think it makes me sound like an office person, which I feel I am not. But I fear that's just my horrible inner boho snob talking.

Let your inner boho snob run free! When I'm asked the "what do you do" question, I ask them if they mean my career or how I support myself. It either amuses or confuses them.

Kristin, the important people know how hard your DH works and how damn good he is, and that's all that matters.

When I was unemployed, I had just moved to LA. That had all its own cachet right there.

I loved that second screen of the second game, because I think I only knew what one of the answers was. I guessed pretty well, but still. The other two quizzes pegged me as new money verging on old, which cracks my ass up. But I'm the product of two class systems that are related to each other more than they're related to the class system of where I'm actually trying to live.

Now I think I'm going to obsess over profiling my neighbourhoods (old and new).

So far, I am a Urban Achiever/Young Digerati hybrid, living in a neighbourhood also featuring American Dreams, Bohemian Mix and Money and Brains.

Okay, the quiz says I'm Nouveau Riche, but confusing. I can live with that.

Oh Maria, it doesn't really bother me. We joke about it constantly ("Yep, my job is lame. I'm just going to sit here in my beautiful house and think about how lame it is.")

I just thought it was a good example of the class dichotemy since he straddles such a stange line. He's got the whole shiny television/celebrity status points but then loses them because of the "low class-ness" of the actual show.

Chintz vs. Shag said I was ecclectic and made it nervous and would I please take the test again.

Me too.

I never know what to say to "what do you do" for work because the job title really is weird and describes nothing and there aren't really industry (and I'm not even in industry!) terms for my mishmash. So I say customer support, even though that's only 50% and even so, it is more complex than that.

What I actually do requires a paragraph. Or a bullet list.

Or I just say I'm a glorified peon in pseudo- academia.

I never know what to say to "what do you do"

I'm in computers. But what do you do? Analysis. Analysis? Yeah. Oh, and I teach martial arts.

That makes the change the topic, or opens them to me talking interminably about krav. My parents don't really understand what I do, and I don't feel any value is added to most of my relationships by understanding what an Application Architect does wrt content management. Bores me to talk about.

ita is me.

16 Bohemian Mix , 07 Money & Brains , 03 Movers & Shakers , 01 Upper Crust , 04 Young Digerati

Also I am Nouveau Riche. As others have said, Bestsellers? Only by accident.

And "Name That Class" had me flipping between old and new money with every question. If only I had a bank account to match my apparent personality.

My parents don't understand what I do, either. They're still waiting for me to come to my senses and become a teacher like everyone else in my family.