While in Missouri over the weekend I noticed that I consistently gear the answer to the “what do you do?” question depending on where the person who asked it lives.
Both as a source of income and a long term profession investment, I have two jobs that alternate back and forth month to month on which is the source of income and which is the [not so profitable but is an] investment for the future. Those two things being that I am a model and I run a web business from home that manages and maintains a network of websites such as the one you’re reading this post on right now.
When people in California ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a model with interests in acting.
When people in Missori ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a website developer.
Both are true, but I never mention the other.
The reason, I figured out, is expectation from the asker.
If I tell someone in California I’m a model, they go “oh, cool!” cuz its normal and familiar. But if I told them I build and market websites they’re gonna wanna know which ones and I dang well better have something big they’ve heard of to recite.
Likewise if I tell someone in Missouri I’m a webmaster, they go “oh, cool!” cuz its normal and familiar. But if I told them I’m a model they’re gonna wanna know what I’ve been in and I dang well better have something big they’ve heard of to recite.
So since none of the websites in my portfolio reach a hundred million visitors yet and my model work has thus far been short of a billboard in Time Square or the side of a bus somewhere, I keep both occupations as hush as possible. I’ll let the work I did on each leak into the open after the success so its more interesting.
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