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I literally tell them I'm a mad scientist, they love it haha it works especially with this couple that has a small kid and he wants to be "just like me" when he grows up
I don't??? They know I work in research but everytime I try to explain what it is that I do, they never really seem interested. They're my friends, tho, so I love them
I usually just tell them I'm a scientist and leave it at that. If they want to know more, I'll go into more detail about what kind of scientist I am.
I like to pretend that I work in a clone-making factory where we get people's 23andMe DNA samples and make copies of them to keep for a future revolution. It's raised a few eyebrows here and there but most people accept this answer and move on lol
I say that I'm a professor and while that's not just what I do, it's the easiest explanation. They usually don't want to know the nitty gritty details because they're boooooring (to them, at least)!
I tell them that I dedicate myself to one of the things that the characters in The big ban theory do, that their mission is to guess who I am.
I always make a joke out of that, I tell them that I dedicate myself to saving their children's world because theirs doesn't matter to me since they are already in it hahaha.
I am a person known for talking a lot and for lengthening my explanations in any field, I would like to explain what I do in a shorter way but I am an astronomer and I believe that there is no short way to explain everything I do.