This hasn't happened for a while as we very rarely go out to restaurants or to dinner parties nowadays but this video reminded me of how some people are prats:
After I retired from full-time work and we still did go out to restaurants and to dinner parties (mainly before we lived permanently up north) I used to get annoyed at the inevitable question from people that I'd just met:
"And what do you do for a living."
Telling them that I was semi-retired never went over well with the prats who have to measure people by status, earnings or occupation. They have no reference points to categorise you with.
Eventually I'd settle for just saying that I was a kept man with The Old Girl keeping me in a manner that I like to be kept in. This usually brought a kind of confused half laugh before the interrogator moved on to someone worthwhile - and safer.
I wished that I'd made some shit up though like:
"I'm making my career in housebreaking and I'm getting really good at it. Where do you live may I ask? "
"I found that my drug habit was using up our savings too fast so I decided to sell the stuff instead. We're amassing a fortune now."
"The SIS recruited me before I gave up full-time work and now I'm extremely busy but I can't talk about it. You shouldn't ask. Really, you shouldn't have asked."
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Rick Tim Bagno
I think that your name sums it up Rick:
Tim ('s) bag? No!
I was asked that the other day after saying I'm a cleaner...."Yes, but what did you do before that, what was your career?".
As I say - they are prats. That kind of passive aggression is all about bullying. I used to, through investigation of their own 'careers', shoot them down, but didn't enjoy it.
It didn't worry me. I quite enjoy saying I'm a cleaner when they are trying to make an equally bland job sound grand.
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