Simple question for the CF community: Do your parents understand what you do for a living? As in, do they have a firm grasp on what you ACTUALLY do?
For me, the answer is a straight "no." I work in the civil/construction engineering world. I started my career as a geotechnical engineer (dirt engineer) doing design but have been in more of the BD/procurement part of the business for years now. My parents do not understand what I do and still talk to me as though I do design work all the time. No matter how many times I've explained it, they do not grasp that I'm not a design engineer and have not been for 5+ years.
For me, the answer is a straight "no." I work in the civil/construction engineering world. I started my career as a geotechnical engineer (dirt engineer) doing design but have been in more of the BD/procurement part of the business for years now. My parents do not understand what I do and still talk to me as though I do design work all the time. No matter how many times I've explained it, they do not grasp that I'm not a design engineer and have not been for 5+ years.