9 comments/trackbacks to “So, what do you do?”

1. Oct 1, 2008: Und - was machst Du so? - Netzlogbuch

   [...] Grafik, die ich bei thenextweb.org gefunden habe, gibt recht genau den Verlauf des darauf folgenden Gesprächs [...]

2. 

   By Marijn on Sep 30, 2008

   I always think ah again some guy that calls his hobby his work.
   Sorry but it sometimes looks like every idiot can be a webdesigner. You can see that on all those ugly websites on the net.

   Reply

   By Joshua on September 30th, 2008:

   I agree, but not every webdesigner is an idiot :)

   Too many ugly websites: true. I went to the Fortis-website at http://www.fortis.nl because of all the news.
   not nice.. and not even the ugliest of them all.

   Reply

3. 

   By Bart on Sep 30, 2008

   Exactly! Today someone at office asked me how she could merge two Excel files. I donno… If it where MySQL tables, no problem! :)

   Reply

4. 

   By David Petherick on Sep 30, 2008

   Mike Davis hates that question too – he wrote ‘29 Different Ways to Start a Conversation’ just a few days ago – http://twurl.nl/cpfwr4

   My solution is that, with the help of a BBC interview where they provided some poor descriptions, I came up with my own, better job description, which was entirely new. But sometimes, when I say “I’m a Digital Biographer” I still get asked about email problems.

   And oddly enough, ‘entrepreneur/blogger/marketeer/SEO expert’ is a scarily accurate description of a lot of my work – just a little tricky to fit on a little business card…

   Reply

5. 

   By Hoof on Sep 30, 2008

   On my card is ‘New Media Director’, so I can adjust the explanation in every situation. When the email problem pops up I can always tell that I have my people to take care of that. Unless there is a nice lady involved. Then I could try to find a moment to get to the bottom of her. Eh, it.

   Reply

6. 

   By Floris Dekker on Oct 1, 2008

   here’s a movie about it:

   http://swissmiss.typepad.com/w.....aphic.html

   I don’t think we should complain though, imagine if your an engineer or something…

   Reply

   By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 1st, 2008:

   That was a funny movie! 26,360 views on Youtube so far. here is a direct link to the movie: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRwFkjQe6s

   Reply

7. 

   By Robin Wauters on Oct 1, 2008

   Great graph. I hate getting asked what I do because I’m involved in so many things. I have 5 different business cards for God’s sake.

   Reply