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When a relative asks you, 'What you do for work?' What do you say?

Maximilian Koch on December 17, 2018

"Something with Computers", is that what you say? I always try to explain what I do, but sometimes realise that I lost them not even half way thr...
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Thomas H Jones II

Neither I nor any of my employers has ever really been able to neatly fit what I do in an HR-friendly (let alone "here's what I do, Mom") box. I've always sorta envied people who could explain what it was they did for work (without a lot of hand-waving and qualifier-statements).