The Internet occupation that the older generation is difficult to understand: we don't fix computers.

Chinese New Year home, always unavoidable to the home to explain their career, and the internet industry geeks, to the non-Internet industry relatives and friends to understand what they are doing, may be more difficult than writing requirements documents and write code task.

Not long ago, I started a discussion at the Geek Park microblog to talk about the jobs in the Internet industry that explain the pain. Everyone's discussion is very happy, now put them out, readers.

I'm a website.

In the hearts of many relatives and friends, the Internet may be equivalent to the site, so that they are "do the site", perhaps the most simple and effective solution:

@ I am Mr. H: I am very difficult to explain to my father Baidu Tencent NetEase, explain what is the Internet, just when I think how to explain the front-end engineers, and finally say-I am engaged in the site

However, the actual operation, there are many bugs. Many family members of the evaluation of a good job is still "stable", "welfare is guaranteed", "salary", "often overtime" and so on, just when we worry about how to remove their doubts, a "your site is legitimate?" "There is no doubt that the hearts of many men and women have been crushed:

@ Zhou Shui: My grandmother had to ask my mother secretly before she is engaged in MLM? (°_°)

@ Happy Soymila: I also met relatives to read the news that the Ministry to the domestic website pornography, asked me whether the work has no impact

@ God of the Zhangxiaoxu: "I:" the amount. I am a product of ", Dad:" What product? ", I:" The amount. A website ", Dad:" Site? To find out the company's background, not to be used by outlaws ", I:" ... ”

@Green: Father-in-law once saw the report of the arrest of telecom fraud, urgent contact I said you should be careful AH

Working in a bank does not mean that money is taken casually, it is easy to understand, but when chatting with relatives and friends, this truth is often forgotten. Website Real Estate channel editor may be described as selling house on the dinner table, while the students who work in Taobao estimates have been asked countless times, "Do you want money on Taobao shopping?" and those who work on the vertical web site, the basic will become a certain industry "bag to ask":

@Batbook: Q: What's the job? A: iOS development? Say to the Apple phone software. Q: "Apple!" When's the iphone5s?

@hzlzh: "Front-end engineer" I went home and told me that the kind of page that a browser can open like a stolen dish is written by our job. Then mom and dad will probably know. Really do not say is to do the website, and then be spit out the slot to say So-and-so Youku ads too much.

@ Lazy Beijing City: "What now?" "In the E-commerce company, is the movie ticket website" "Oh ~ scalper!" STEAM!!!!!!

@ Lu Jiahui: do QQ space, but no free Q currency.

@ Enjoy the ear sen: I am often asked is: sell the medicine?/@ Wei Wei's darling is Me ah is me: I: "I am in the Medical website editor", The Old Man: "is writing a book?" Me: "Do not write books, publish information on the internet" old Man "... Do you have a steady job? I "..." I know they don't understand, O (╯-╰) o

@ Guo Yan Yang Ocean: in the gun ~ but cames I have explained clearly ~ in short, I came to the sentence: "Mom will use your Baidu browser then" ~ ~ Mother said: "Mom every day with Baidu check things." Hey, hao123 is also Baidu's? Then why not call baidu123? " That QQ is also Baidu, right? Sogou method is also Baidu?

Apes and apes in the eyes of family members, Heyuan.

In the binary field, there are a group of people called Code farmers, also known as the program Ape or program-yuan. In the custom of the traditional industry division of the parents of the crowd there, "code siege" may be wearing khaki clothes wearing a helmet, carrying drawings to walk on the site of the engineer; When you say you are the front end of the site, their first reaction is often the company's front desk girl. It can be imagined that those who use the "program ape" can not be summed up in the small number of job workers and their families to explain their work, how much wavelength the joy of dialogue.

@ Sad wood tears AH: My grandfather always think I am the Fuji Kang Welded board ...

@ Wang Ruichen 999: Not easy ah, once ran a few years of semiconductor industry, back home, old mother Old asked: "This radio have what write head?"

@ Cow Bullfrog Frog: "Network equipment technical Support" How to explain? Phone call to repair the machine, or repair the line ...

@ Big Eyes Peach River: I am a DBA, often make people feel that the warehouse administrator

@ pisces Pisces: Once with the classmate said SAP, the classmate is very surprised to say, you do beauty? In fact, I do not understand the spa, ASP I have taught

@ Wave days Huan: I generally introduce myself is network management and repair

@Jamesfond: Haha, we automated, do electrical, is to change the light bulb, switch, wiring.

@ Go out son: Fill in the Job column write "IT", Be thought "factory" write scrawl. More than 10 years ago to explain the minicomputer is not home pc, relatives look at me seriously, said, "I also entered this field, just signed up for WPS Five training, more exchanges later." A few years ago, children and teachers explained that parents are doing cloud computing, and the result is thought to be the energy industry. Now the big data simply don't say, otherwise must be the mobile phone store to sell u disk

I plant benefits ... It's OK

Read the above content, perhaps it is not difficult to understand why it people often self-proclaimed as "factory" in the people, laughing between the "factory", "Your factory" constantly. It insiders have a sense of humor, but if they are considered "a factory worker" by family members ...

@ Color when Gan: Home industrial Park, the elders each time asked: Why your factory does not eat bags to live? I answer: Outside the factory size is smaller, no canteen and dormitory.

@ Nadan: And my mom said in the innovation workshop My mother always asked you plant how many workshops AH is the workshop is not the factory AH

@ZH10111: My grandfather really, last year asked me your factory to provide dormitory?

@ Little Sorrow: @baobaodu your factory is made of bean paste is not ...

I'm the manager, I'm proud.

"Yo, so young to be a manager?"

Chinese New Year home, if the relative elders touch your head, smiling to say this sentence, presumably again excellent product manager forehead will ooze beans sweat (especially the product manager soon after work), the mouth of a crooked, the heart can only meditation a sentence "hehe".

The word "manager", in the minds of many of the previous generations, was also shrouded in the brilliance of the 80 's, and the first translation of Product Manager (or project manager) into a "products manager" friend, I'm afraid, was not expecting the word Become the Internet product Circle People's hearts that a touch of sweet distress. In the eyes of relatives and friends, the "product manager" of the Great place, does not seem to make a cool product:

@SoojinDance Xiao Nan: "What? Do you work as product Manager? Give our kids a job in your company? "Internet Product Manager? Can I get a discount on internet products?"

@lweiii: What? Do the product manager? My child is graduating from junior high School, see if there is introduction into your factory Ah, he is hard-working ...

In many teams, especially in the entrepreneurial team, product managers need to do a lot of things, so many product managers themselves are difficult to explain clearly what they are doing, often the family asked, they have to give the present answer Seine the past, or use the most popular analogy of life to give them a specific impression, so, The product manager that the family uses to put together these answers is a magical existence:

@ Sesame cake old pit dad: last time and dad introduced what is PM, half a day is not clear, the nasty blurted out, is similar to the contractor! Then my father silently came to the sentence: The end of the year, on time to send money to let them go home for a good years

@ Tour Xiao Yan: I suspect that now my grandmother thought I was painting drawings on the site, but also heard the elderly secretly muttered that you are not good to see Ah, do not know this year that I was two-way online to buy a pancake what they will think I changed lines, heaven I really did not change jobs AH # Not only do products to prevent the program ape personal injury

@ Small Jjjackson: Only popular examples of simple to do steamed stuffed bun, steamed stuffed bun shape, package what stuffing is our product tube ... Oh, so you sell buns.

I'm not a computer mechanic.

"Repair Computer", "Install system", "antivirus", these may be the Internet people can not escape the fate.

Computer, Internet, program, website, these words in a lot of people in the heart is equivalent, can imagine Uncle aunt, uncle aunt in chat, give you the label is "Do Computer", mobile internet after the rise, do mobile internet products people to get another label: "Churn mobile phone."

@ Dante is not calm: I always said I was a foil.

@h God do not know what to play: Repair the computer, engage in mobile phones, loading routes. When it comes to work, the next step is to charge and Q coins. I'm big Bupt tech man!

@fraserxv: Chief system Installation engineer, computer purchase consultant.

@cha1fen9: In the eyes of others, I was the man in the electrical repair shop. was used to repair the computer also just, there are TV, video camera, VCR, camera, VCD ...

@ Teng GE: has not figured out what to do after the "Technical Service engineer" concrete, according to the HR and the mother of that point of information, summed up is: "Dry repair" ...

It's not about playing games.

@YZBeta: self-study game engine When parents ask what is doing, "do cartoons." "Dare not say is a game, any and" game "two words of parents are not good things.

Believe this sentence will cause a lot of play development friends resonance.

From small to large, how many times steals the game to be grabbed the bag? How many times was the parents dragged home from the Internet café to beat a meal? The electronic dictionary confiscated by the class teacher did you get it? And the game of those who grudge, said a day and night can not finish.

Games in the eyes of many parents, is a scourge, children grow up incredibly want to play the game as a living, this is not a normal business. But in the eyes of their peers, this may be a very cool business. Game products people in the interpretation of their careers, to bear may be another kind of complex pressure.

@Jackie Gong: I told my mom to play games, she always thought I worked at the Internet café.

@V1_Bau: Q: What's the job? Q: Great, help me with some of the best weapons. Secretary：

@ Shi: "What do you do now?" Do computer games. "Is that the kind of thing that poisons teenagers in internet cafes all day?" ......“

@ Magic de Elvin: I also said I was playing games. Then I'll ask you if you have the activation code for the xxx game?

@ Mao Tuan Zha Jieju 9_9: Well, generally speaking is to do the game, and then elders will reveal a pair of you do not do the job of expression

@anny White bat: Ever since I learned how to animate, every time a computer TV is on the go, ask me if I can draw it.

@ Joseph Mia: Turns out my mom thought I was a game acting