In not knowing exactly what it is that DH does at work?

[Shodan]

I mean, obviously I know the basics. He works with computers.

He always wears a suit to work.

And he very often works late at night (in the sitting room) which leads to him being asleep all evening the next day. As now.

Today I noticed he was wearing a tie as well as the suit. Aha, thinks I, Something Big was happening today. So I asked him. Did Something Big happen today?

He looked a bit hurt, frankly, and then spent fifteen minutes telling me what he had, apparently, already told me last night.

And, like last night, it went in one ear and out the other.

So I still don't know exactly what he does.

Am I a Bad Wife?

Mine is a qualified spark, and sometimes a bricklayer/chippie whatever work is available at the moment to be honest

There is definitely something about the IT industry though.

Not only Dh abut his sister and brother-in-law work in the IT industry. As far as I have ascertained, DSIL does something in computers within retail and DBIL does something in computers within the banking sector. And each is convinced that theirs is the best/most interesting/most profitable yada yada yada.

Family meals are a larf a minute, I can tell you.

DP has had a number of increasingly ludicrous titles including KAM, NAM, BUM, Head of Impulse, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and his current one has Barefoot Brand Manager in it somewhere.

What he actually does on a day to day basis is something about selling wine but, since the days when he actually had cases of wine and Thunderbird in the boot of his car and went round shops and offies, I've really not had a clue what that means.

My Dad, uncle, aunt, 2 cousins and two siblings all work/worked in IT at some point. Like Shodan's family gatherings, ours were fascinating (not)

I'm quite thankful my DH is a journalist on a local paper. That does of course require me to phone him as soon as anything newsworthy occurs. As it's a rural area this can be a horse escaping or a new shop opening. There has only been one murder on his patch since the fifties. He spends a lot of time worrying about what shall I put on my front page?

You know, thinking about it, I'm not really sure what any of my brothers do either.

Well, I know the eldest cleans buildings (outside of) somehow. No 2 has a PhD in something to do with politics (I think) but doesn't do anything with it (I don't think), no 3- have no clue whatsoever but I do know he lives in Australia and no 4 used to be a QAT but now does something else to do with medicaments.

Conversely, my Dad was a policeman Mum was a SAHM. FIL was a Civil Engineer (ok veering slightly into vague territory there) and MIL was a primary school teacher. All Proper Jobs and easily understood. And remembered.

Oh and dammit. New BIL does something with computers too. But not the same, I believe, as DH, DSIL and DBIL.

Sigh.

You know, thinking about it, I'm not really sure what any of my brothers do either.

Well, I know the eldest cleans buildings (outside of) somehow. No 2 has a PhD in something to do with politics (I think) but doesn't do anything with it (I don't think), no 3- have no clue whatsoever but I do know he lives in Australia and no 4 used to be a QAT but now does something else to do with medicaments.

Conversely, my Dad was a policeman Mum was a SAHM. FIL was a Civil Engineer (ok veering slightly into vague territory there) and MIL was a primary school teacher. All Proper Jobs and easily understood. And remembered.

Oh and dammit. New BIL does something with computers too. But not the same, I believe, as DH, DSIL and DBIL.

Sigh.

Ooh. That was strange.

So interesting my laptop decided to post it twice!!

My DH is a research scientist, I know what his specialist area is, but I couldn't actually explain it in detail.

When he tells me about his day, he mostly talks about coffee break gossip, consequently I tend to imagine him at work sitting around drinking coffee. (This is probably unfair)

I know exactly what my dp does. He on the other hand has no clue what it is that I do.
Like getorf I am v techie and geeky which goes right over his head.

My childminder hasn't got a clue what her husband does but tries to hide this by hinting that he is in fact a member of the secret services and she can't talk about his work on pain of death.
I believe her. It is a well known fact that secret services members can often be seen getting the number 10 bus into the town centre of a morning.

Lol at flashcards!

My DH cooks people dinner. He is not around to have dinner with us. He did not make GP last month. I soothingly blamed the snow.

Occasionaly, when he is writing a menu, I will throw in some useless ideas to make his sound better.
"What about egg & chips, darling?"

He however has no idea what I do! When we were getting married, and the registrar asked him what I did, he didn't know!

DH works for a local charity? and that's pretty much all I can tell people when they ask what he does . He even works from home occasionally, but if he does I end up taking DS out as he always wants to play with him and not let him work.

He sends a lot of emails.

Mine too is in computers- he once offered me £1000 to explain exactly what he did. I failed

Hmmmm. Now there's an incentive to learn what DH actually does.

I wouldn't mind £1000.

Work in 'IT' too within a large telecoms company - DW knows I develop 'tools' for people to use but that's about the level of understanding.

DW is a teacher in a EBD school - so I get to hear about all the teachers pupils bad behaviour, which is much easier to understand.

My DB makes fire engines and that sort of equipment.

The so called non-jobs pay loads more though than any 'real' job.

i hate explaining my job.

i picked up dd once from nursery adn all the staff where looking at me with excitement and respect. dd had told them i was a dancer. i could see something inside each of them die when i explained my real job.

it was nice though those few minutes of being treated like an interesting person.

My DH also 'works in IT'. Do you think they all work together?

I'll never know, because I'm never allowed to meet the people he works with, 'because you'll just make fun of them, and then I'll have to go to work the next day and not think about what you said about their shoes/hair/voice.' Clearly I'm nicer than I thought.

Sometimes, when I'm watching Spooks, I wonder if DH is really a spy.

DH is a scientific consultant. His PhD is on a shelf in our living room. I recently used it to make a platform under DS's jumper since DS was too short to reach the floor. DH was not terribly impressed.

The way I explain it to people is, 'DH does a lot of work trying to predict what happens if you dump some stuff in the ground and leave it for 10,000 years'. That's about as much as I understand. He runs computer models, gets eyestrain, and swears a lot. It pays the bills.

Shodan, is your DH Chandler from Friends? He wore a suit and no-one knew exactly what he did either? If so, that makes you Monica, in which case you need to calm down dear and eat more pies!

It is much easier if you can reply to peoples' queries with 'Oh, Dh(DW/DP/OH) is a (an).....'.

As in 'DH is a chef/doctor/teacher/writer/internet porn star.

It all gets difficult when you have to say 'Oh DH is in' something.

That's when the questions start.

SDD- 'tools'- I'm assuming you don't mean hammers and screwdrivers. Although I could see their place in the world of computing.

oooh DH once applied to join MI5.
Now that I would have no trouble telling people, which may explain why he didn't get very far.

Arf at the very idea of me being Monica.

That would require more cleaning to be done in the Shodan household.

(Although DH is possibly a leetle bit Chandlery)

Keep him away from the painkillers, then. You still need those wages coming in, no matter how they are earned!

And sit down, have a cup of tea and RELAX!

DP is a tattoo artist, so it would be pretty hard not to understand what he does all day! Plus I get to see photos when he comes home, so that's pretty self-explanatory.

I'm a translator, which is also easy to understand, although people often think I mean interpreting, or that I translate INTO French and Spanish (will leave that to the French and Spaniards, thank you!)

I have been trying to understand what two of my best friends do for years, but my brain just numbs up the very moment they start to explain it to me!