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. ?
But have you ever taken your wife to a gathering of fellow engineers? Truly in my element but she felt so lost because she couldn’t relate to my anyone there. She tells me she couldn’t understand most of our engineer conversations. So the shoe is on the other foot. Ah, we rarely go to engineer get togethers anymore. ?.