To hate cryptic people

[m0therofdragons]

This is inspired by a friend's dh. Known them for years and still no clue what his job is. It's come up in conversation but he is so vague. My theories are:

1. He's an arms dealer or other kind of illegal activity (but wears smart clothing)... maybe top drug lord?

1. He's a spy.

1. He thinks his job is to intelligent for us to understand.

1. His job is just really dull/he's embarrassed by it.

I have an uncle who has a job he cannot discuss and I understand this but this guy is just cryptic "oh it's kind of like sales but not quite" but then he answers everything like this. Just answer the question. Don't most people know what friends do for a living?

Ex DP did have a secret job he couldn’t even tell me the location - all I knew was it was a 90 minute commute which could have been in one of 3 directions
Rationale was that myself or DC would have been less of a risk than if we knew
Years later after he’d stopped working there and the circumstances had changed I did work it out but at the time it freaked me out a bit

It’s not that I can’t talk about my job, I just don’t particularly want to. I will tell people the organisation I work for and broadly what I do but that isn’t enough for some people they want chapter and bloody verse. They just want to know how high up you are but don’t want to ask outright.

It may be overly intrusive to ask somebody about their job. For me, it’s a way of making conversation when the other person isn’t a great initiator. It might be that I couldn’t care less what they do, but if it gets us chatting, it’s a way in.

In the early days of my career I used to work with a guy who was at times extremely cryptic. He would at times speak in complete riddles and inside I would be irritated that he was taking the mickey in tying me up in knots trying to follow him. Eventually, I discovered he was diabetic and that when he was talking nonsense he was in fact hyperglycaemic. When his blood sugar level or insulin level (whichever it is) would return to normal he would begin to make sense again. So it isn’t always necessarily deliberate.

I hate telling people what I do because I always always either get a full blown tale of how horrendous their experiences were in my work place or I get their full medical history, or that of their relatives, my pet hate is bowel problems, bowel issues over a nice meal out...hmmmm!

I should be completely proud of what I do, but nowadays, I'm embarrassed.

I'm a nurse.

@HildaZelda THAT'S NOT EVEN A JOB!

Wasn't a 'job mystery' part of the book/tv series Apple Tree Yard ?

We have a lodger who won't really tell us what he does. He works "in security" for an American company.
He starts work very early and sometimes has to work all night.

We had a friend who worked "in customs". Never really found out what he did either.

My mum doesn't know what I do even though I've told her loads of times