Tell us your job, and answer the Top 3 questions you get all the time:

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
161

User Support Specialist (helpdesk)

  1. No the network is not down, you just aren’t logged into Novell.

  2. I do everything from computers to phones, nothing biomedical except glucometers.

  3. I only do work on the side if you pay me and i get a date with your daughter.

162

Translator/Copy Editor

To clients:

  1. Yes, I can do that for you.
  2. Yes, that’s correct English.
  3. It was on the company’s website.

To interested persons:

  1. French to English.
    1a) You usually translate into your first language because, while you have to understand the source, you have to have excellent writing skills in the target.
  2. I’m a freelancer but I work mostly for one client.
    2a) Mostly medical administration, but some advertising and other subjects.
  3. Coming up on five years now.
163

PhD researcher (phylogenetics)
To interested parties:

  1. It’s like working out family trees of animals (long since resigned to telling that useful lie)
  2. No, human’s didn’t evolve from chimps, they both decended from a common ancestor
  3. No, I’m not just putting off getting ‘a proper job’

To undergraduate students:

  1. No, I don’t know what’s on the exam
  2. Read the practical schedule, then you’ll know what to do next. It’s conveniently laid out chronologically, see…?
  3. There are six possible reading frames because a DNA molecule is made up of two strands…

btw, interesting selection of jobs 'dopers have!

164

Medical Office Manager

  1. Because we have to pay our bills too. If we do not pay the phone bill we will not have service. Waiting 6mths to be paid is not the doctor’s idea of showing your appreciation. :dubious:

  2. No, we are not on the list because we are not contracted with your insurer.
    a. I have no idea who is on that list-you only get the list if you are already on it. :rolleyes:
    b. I have no idea how long you have to wait for an appointment with that doctor–I don’t work for 'em…

  3. Because Medicare, a federal government backed program, requires that we collect the 20% or we get penalized and fined. :eek:
    a. I find that difficult to believe. Either you are; a) full of BS, b) that office is breaking the law, or c) you are mistaken. I pick a and c.
    b. Your insurer is not one of the “magic” ones and you get to do the paperwork. :p[list=a]
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