Academics Discuss The Made Up Jobs They Use When People Ask What They Do For Work

Political scientist @alixabeth, asked Twitter users what methods they break out when trying to get around telling someone what they do for a living. The resulting answers were wildly creative, and might just end up helping bail you out of that next teeth-grinding situation of painful small talk. 

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