Repeat question: What do you say you do for a living?

I'm sorry...I know this has been asked before....but when an aquaintance or friend asks you what you do for a living...what do you say?

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I'm an engineer. They already know that.

As for MSing... I say I perform business evaluations and audits.

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Plan the work. Work the plan.

I'm a business consultant and evaluator.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

Quality control consultant.

say auditing,or quality control

OK...thanx!

Auditor

I try to tactfully avoid the question whenever possible. If they're persistent then it depends on the person. If I like them I might tell them auditor, if I don't, I'll probably tell them if I wanted to say I would have told them the first 3 times they asked.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

Franchise compliance auditor.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

Customer Service Evaluator...

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

I always say "a little of this ... a little of that. I'm a consultant. Do you have a gig for me?"

Thanx, everybody!

Well, this isn't what I do for a "living" as much as discretionary cash and entertainment, but because I mostly do restaurant shops (and typically when I'm talking to people about it, it's because I'm inviting them to come eat with me) I tell them I'm kind of like a food critic. I've had one person compare my job to corporate espionage, which I guess makes sense if you're doing a competitor shop.

A dental hygienist. Quality assurance evaluator

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**Throw me to the wolves and I'll come back leading the pack!**

I like these answers. Depending on who it is, I either say I am a mystery shopper or that I do data entry and manage my husband's accounting practice. I used to be a customer service rep, and in a way, I guess I still am.

Is there a reason you don't tell friends that you mystery shop?

ninja

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imsuzie2 Wrote:
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> Is there a reason you don't tell friends that you
> mystery shop?

Mostly I don't tell them because there are only so many shops in my area, and I don't want them knowing they exist and taking them from me. They're hard enough to get at a decent price as it is.

Sometimes I don't tell them just because I don't want to field a thousand questions about it, and have them still misunderstand, or worse, expect things from it. "Oh, so you shop for a living? Okay, well here's my Christmas list for my kids, mind getting that stuff for me, since you get it free and all?"

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I am a Customer Service Expert through and through since thats what I do for my full time job and with Mystery Shopping (even on the applications when they ask why I would be a good Mystery Shopper thats my response).

Silver certified (since 2009) and willing to do shops all around the greater Chicago, NW Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin areas (including airports!.

Well, I am kind of a jack of all trades. I mystery shop, make and sell jewelry, soap and other bath things, sell on ebay... anything to get money and keep me at home.

Heck, I do the shopkick app just to keep me in free Starbucks! If it pays, I'm likely to give it a whirl.

I'll happily help people looking for 'filler' income, but MSing is my little secret.

I tell everyone I work for the IRS.

That shuts them up fast!

I really didn't mean "What do you do for a living". I meant what do you tell people you do? Most people gave me thoughtful answers about what to tell people who ask what I do.

I generally give my real occupation, freelance writer/photographer, especially on shops where I have to give my real name. I do it for two reasons. First, it makes it easier for me to talk about it, should the salesperson so desire [and it happens quite a bit, especially on car shops where that's an open invite to show off the room in the trunk]. Second is a more pecuniary interest, the possibility of obtaining work in the future.

As far as friends go...well a small handful [3] know what I do because they get a free meal occasionally. One is a retired chef and boy do those FD meals get dissected on the way home. When he comes with me on a shop, I do a second recording on the way home because we end up talking about the flavor profiles of the meal and I never know when a gem will come out that will fit the report perfectly. The rest basically know I only write and shoot.

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The answer is not mystery shopping. The answer is my full-time day job.

Many people like to talk and word gets around. Except for a very select group of family and friends, no one outside the business (and forum) knows I mystery shop.

Happily shopping Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut

I say I could tell them, but then I'd have to kill 'em.

Haha, just kidding. Most people don't know I work since I'm otherwise a stay at home mom, but if it happens to come up I tell my closest family I'm mystery shopping and others that I'm a freelance auditor/evaluator.

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That's Mys Butterfly, if you please.

If I want to cut the conversation short, I say I do undercover work. and I cannot reveal any details.

Gynecologist

I work security and I do undercover investigations. :-)

I go with "consultant." It's been my experience that few people ask for specifics.

I am asked this a lot when I am sitting at a bar auditing the bartender.
Last Friday night, my reply was, "Trophy Wife."

I have to amuse myself somehow.

Everyone I know, knows what I do. (Sorry for the weird punctuation, but I couldn't write, "Know knows," like that.)

I tell them I'm an eccentric Billionaire and don't have to work for a living. Sometimes the broken strap on my flip flops belies that, though.

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