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Let me set the scene for you. You’re at a friends party and you meet up with some new people. After the opening pleasantries, the conversation soon comes around to your day job. So I start off with the obvious, “I’m a software developer.” This usually leaves people quite puzzled so I try a different approach, “I write computer software.” And it’s at this point you hear those words you dread so much, “ahhhh you work with computers!”.

I’ve always imagined it’s the same situation in lots of professions. You’re a doctor and someone asks you to have a look at a worrying mole they’ve just found. You’re a shop worker and someone wants to know if you’ll be able to get them a discount. You’re an airline worker and someone wants to know if you can get them a free upgrade to business class. You’re a psychologist and someone wants you to guess what they are thinking.

Now it just so happens that if you work with computers, you know everything about anything electrical.
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