Alanz Eyes

Over here I was talking about ‘what do you do?‘, and now I’ll talk about ‘what would you like to do?’

How often are you asked that? Maye only if you express that you’re unhappy with what you’re doing, and so they ask what you’d like to do instead. But how often are you asked that because someone is genuinely interested in what you’d LIKE to do?

How would you answer? What would you like to do?

This article at the New York Times is titled ‘Google resists US subpoena of search data‘.

The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to compel Google, the Internet search giant, to turn over records on millions of its users’ search queries as part of the government’s effort to uphold an online pornography law.

Google has been refusing the request since a subpoena was first issued last August, even as three of its competitors agreed to provide information, according to court documents made public this week. Google asserts that the request is unnecessary, overly broad, would be onerous to comply with, would jeopardize its trade secrets and could expose identifying information about its users.

What do you do for a living?

Do you get this question? I’m sure you do. Everyone does. My answer usually comes after a moment of thought, where I weigh up what I know about them and their potential technical knowledge against how I can describe what I do. My most common answer is, “I work with computers.”

There are so many ways to work in computers, but it’s the easiest way to explain what I do. I learnt that most people don’t even know what IT is, let alone all the possible careers within it. Many people work within IT and don’t even realise it! So how do you explain something technical to people that have absolutely no idea?