Charles touches on a good point. There are really two levels at which this question is asked: personal introductions and professional introductions.
With personal introductions, the person asking isn't asking for your benefit. They are only asking so they know what "box" to put you in. The aren't asking to give you an opportunity to validate your importance to an organization or to society. Chances are that "Computer stuff", and <painstakingly_detailed_description/> are both going to get you lumped into the same box. With professional introductions, the person is probably still not asking for your benefit...but they are giving you an opportunity to validate your importance to an organization or to society or whatever. They are looking for an answer to this internal question: "What value or potential value is this person to me/my organization/my client(s)". Perhaps there _is_ a third level, as well: When we introduce our selves, in which we have need to clearly define our role, our expertise, our qualifications...such as just before delivering a presentation at a conference, or to management, etc. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 15:46, Charles Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually when people ask what I do, I first give the very simplistic reply of > "Computer Stuff". Those who actually do not care what I do (they were just > making small talk) or do not want more granular details will just say "ah, _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
