What Do You Tell People You Do?

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Haha, FU Rob. It was just one huge dude, not 3.

DelJean - Yep, you have it right on... Sadly I was a fucking idiot when I was 17-18 and thought I knew everything... But now I have to live with it... And it is a TOTAL bitch trying to figure it out, but I think I have it down pretty well at this point... I deal with customers for my main job, and they entrust me with quite a lot right off the bat... And so far it takes about 30 seconds to get them to warm up to me, so people and social skills can go a long way...
 


I dont have too much trouble explaining it, maybe my friends are brighter than yours :P

If I feel like explaining am, I sell other peoples products for a % of the sale. I'm middle man.
 
I just tell people I go phishing everyday lol! Really, I just tell people I own my own internet marketing business.
 
For the last 10 months I've been telling most non-industry people that I just sit around doing nothing all day. It's so much easier than explaining what we do. They also give you this great facial expression.

"I'm just rich, and do nothing. Waking up is as productive as I get"

The ones that pick up on the sarcasm or seem as if they can understand what I really do on the first try will get a real answer, but everyone else.. just bewilderment on their part. I love it!

...I definitely need to get out more often.
 
Man....you guys are too intellectual...

I'd go to namecheap and register something like InternetMoneyInfo.com, set a URL or frame redirect to one of the $20-30 bizop CPA offers.

When you get the question, just say, 'It's a little complicated, but you should visit this site to find out more'.

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If you're so inclined, fill in one of those 200-300 free business card offers, get em printed with your name and bizop URL on it, and maybe a throwaway gmail address and hand those out...

never, and i say, never, put your office, home or cell number on the card.

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and if you're so inclined, set your email autoresponder/vacation response to say "I'm a little busy not and will get back to you when I can. In the meantime, you might like to visit: InternetMoneyInfo.com"

don't waste your breath...make some bank instead....


Rob_TID said:
When someone asks you at a party, "what do you do", how do you answer?

It's such a pain in the ass question.
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Depends on who is asking. I've been a serial entrepreneur almost all of my adult life, so anyone who has known me even tangentially for more than a couple of years knows that I appear to spend an awful lot of time playing with plastic dinosaurs on the floor with my kid, while he on the other hand is bitching about being out of razor blades or trying to decide if both of those fucking socks are black or is one navy or whatever it is normal people do in the morning.

New people who don't know me, and are just making small talk, I say "I build websites." This is true, and vague, and most people will ask limited follow up questions to it.

People who have known me for a while, who seem seriously interested, I say pretty much the same thing but follow it up with more details. Sometimes these people are interested (or think they are at first) in doing something on their own, so I try to encourage it. Everyone can use a little extra dough, and the idea that I might help them make a little extra to piss away on video games or four-wheelers or whatever it is normal people buy can be fun.

People who don't know me and are just nosy fucktards, I just tell them I don't like to talk about my work. This gets them all hot and bothered and they go around asking everyone else what it is that I do, usually other nosy fucktards who don't know, and some of the rumours that have circulated their way back to me are hilarious.


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I tell them that I'm part owner in an ass gerbil farm. Then as soon as their jaw hits the floor I tell them that it's a hugely competitive market, however what sets us apart is that we've developed an epileptic mutation that has taken the Bay Area by storm and has increased our presence tremendously...
 
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