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		dirkc 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sergey Brin's Unretirement I sometimes joke and say that I type for a living, not entirely untrue. But I've found that sometimes people are offended if I answer their question evasively

dopidopHN2 3 months ago [–]

I work in a buttons factory

dirkc 3 months ago | [–]

sometime I say "push buttons for a living" instead of typing :)

Can also describe my job as 'endlessly deliberate over the placement of pixels'

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