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How to strike up a conversation with doctors/lawyers/engineers?

Piobaire

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Originally Posted by Huntsman
I was having dinner with a few engineers and materials scientists in Boston, and one gentleman asked what a scallop tasted like, I started describing it as a "transversely isotropic..."

While your answer is great, the thought that a grown professional, in Boston, has not had a scallop is very sad.
 

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Originally Posted by Teacher
English. And yes, believe it or not, people ask. And no, I don't like it.

I never knew you taught English.

Is it anything like Dead Poets Society?
 

Rusty G.

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I'm an attorney. I guess the best way to open a conversation is "how's your practice going?"
 

gnatty8

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I deal with this question by avoiding conversations with all three where at all possible..
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DBoon

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Originally Posted by Helix
Mechanical. For some reason all the Civil guys I know are complete dicks.

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do please enlighten me

...in the process of applying for M.S. / M.Eng., learning exactly what the **** the career path is like for my field, re-evaluating my life, all the fun stuff
 

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Originally Posted by DBoon
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do please enlighten me

...in the process of applying for M.S. / M.Eng., learning exactly what the **** the career path is like for my field, re-evaluating my life, all the fun stuff


Heh i'm still undergrad and probably going to jump to physics in grad school so I'll be of little help there. I hear materials is fun if you like research.
 

warmpi

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Originally Posted by Piobaire
While your answer is great, the thought that a grown professional, in Boston, has not had a scallop is very sad.

Perhaps he was asking how that particular dish of scallops tasted, and not how scallops in general taste. At least, that's how I choose to interpret it. I refuse to believe that an educated professional has never tasted a scallop. We have not sunk that low.
 

norcaltransplant

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Originally Posted by warmpi
Perhaps he was asking how that particular dish of scallops tasted, and not how scallops in general taste. At least, that's how I choose to interpret it. I refuse to believe that an educated professional has never tasted a scallop. We have not sunk that low.

There are no Jews in Boston?
 

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