39 years of marriage for us. She‘s the social butterfly that has the people skills. I guess I’m the fly swatted that brings in the cold hard facts of reality.30 years of marriage + poor people skills...
What an understatement!
Boy can I relate! My wife is very social so lots of get togethers with me in tow. I couldn’t count the number of times at these parties when someone would ask what I did for a living. Tell them I’m a Systems Engineer and watch their eyes glaze over. Soon they need to go do something, anything. They just can’t relate. So I now tell them I drive a garbage truck. The conversation flows then. That they can relate. ?
I am sure that some bleaching between you both happened in all these years, isn't it?
What is the REAL difference between a systems engineer and the driver of a garbage truck?
Awesome response and so true!
I hadn’t thought about it in those terms but you absolutely correct! Yeah, one has to tactfully wade though and sort all the “stuff” to find the valuable nuggets needed to implement while the other has to pick up and dispose of all the “stuff”. The result is happy people. I should try this on my boss.?
Not so much bleaching but a strong similar upbringing, beliefs, and core values. So this “nucleus” binds us while we fly about one another. Ok maybe a bit nerdy.
I have the same t-shirt, scarily a lot of the "ancient" stuff we deal with I installed when it was new! Of course the boss always assumes I remember all about it from xx years back and conveniently forgets about all the undocumented updates that have been done in the intervening period.
My engineer friends are mostly introverts
I cannot remember when last any of them had a party or was interested in going to a party. We tend to get together for Movies and Pizza LOL. We had made big plans for "Top Gun 2" before the Virus hit and now that one is in limbo. My wife likes the guys but her eyes just glaze over once the tech talk starts. Its very interesting to hear her take on what she gets from our conversations. She say we talk in a different language and all she hears is acronyms going back and forth and only gets a few of them like ISP and the more common stuff. No worries I tell her because when she is talking to Doctors and Pharmacists all I get from the conversation is the disease topic and I have no idea what all the medical procedures and drug names mean and after 30 years I have stopped trying! I never thought of that one..
