When a new acquaintance, not in consulting, asks you what you do, how do you answer?

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Depending on who I’m talking to:

“I work at a PowerPoint factory.”

“I help really big companies make a lot more money, and they don’t give me any of it in return.”

If they say I have a nice house and ask what I do for work, I jokingly tell them I embezzle money from the company I work at.

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I’m Lord Business

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Software business stuff

I say my work is client based. I help them set up our software.

I assign work to my team and am on meetings all day :)

I do things, I meet people

I’m a businessman

Do you then proceed to drink his wine?

My job is talking to people

Lots of excel and conference calls. Sometimes I’m just there to be the grown up in the room when people can’t agree on how to do things or don’t know where to start.

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