[HPFGU-OTChatter] Question for Neil (was Re: Professions)

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> My job title is Director, which is fairly
> meaningless without 
> additional details.  I run an information service
> for the alcohol 
> industry, monitoring information on health, social
> and legislative 
> issues relating to alcoholic beverages. We maintain
> a web-based 
> database, produce publications and deal with
> enquiries.
> 
> If I try to explain what I do at house parties, most
> people either 
> don't get it or they say "that sounds really
> interesting" (which 
> translates as "I don't get it").  About 70% of
> people ask: "do you 
> get given free booze?"  We don't actually, but I do
> get the 
> occasional free lunch or trip to a sponsored event
> (such as the visit 
> the the Grand National I described a few months
> back).   
> 
> By trade, I still regard myself as a biologist
> (specifically, a 
> toxicologist), and I previously worked for the UK's
> National Poisons 
> Unit as a Clinical Biochemist.  My current
> employers, of course, 
> would rather I didn't mention poisons and alcohol in
> the same 
> sentence.
> 
> Now wasn't that interesting?
> 
Actually, it was. But the question begs to be asked:
how do you get from toxicologist to what you're doing
now? And I can certainly understand your employers not
wanting poison and alcohol mentioned in the same
sentence <g>.

Sheryll

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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