Describe your work like you're a 6 year old

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This forum discussion revolves around the creative and humorous descriptions of various jobs as if explained by a six-year-old. Participants share their experiences in fields such as physics, engineering, and healthcare, using playful language and analogies. Key themes include the simplification of complex concepts, such as using lasers for medical purposes and the playful interpretation of retirement as "being on summer vacation all the time." The conversation highlights the importance of making technical subjects accessible and engaging for all ages.

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  • Understanding of basic scientific principles, such as physics and biology.
  • Familiarity with engineering concepts, particularly in relation to design and construction.
  • Knowledge of healthcare terminology and practices, especially in medical technology.
  • Awareness of educational methodologies that promote learning through play.
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  • Explore the role of simulation in medical training, focusing on tools like virtual reality.
  • Research the applications of lasers in healthcare, particularly in surgery and diagnostics.
  • Investigate the principles of playful learning and its impact on education.
  • Learn about the engineering design process and its relevance in creating educational toys.
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Educators, engineers, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in making complex subjects more relatable and engaging for younger audiences.

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Inspired by this SMBC comic:
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I can read things some people can't read so I read them and then write them again only now those people can read it.

Now's your turn.
 
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I take lasers and shoot them at atoms or molecules and try to push them or cool them and stuff. Actually, I'm not allowed to play with lasers, so I do it all in a computer, but that's fun enough.
 
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As six-year-old as I can make it:

Sometimes people have bad bones :frown: so doctors give them metal bones :smile: But bugs like the metal bones and can make people sick :nb) I'm trying to make the metal bones bugproof :cool:
 
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I grow cells, like your skin. We feed them cow blood and then they grow a tiny hair that we pull on with a tractor beam and watch to see what happens. It's kind of like how your ear works.
 
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Pilots can't crash airplanes full of people just to learn how to fly. So I make toys for pilots and other people to use to learn stuff by playing with the toys. Do you learn things playing with toys?

Sometimes other people use my toys to find out how things work.

My favorite toys work on computer screens and people use them like games. I bet you like games. Do you learn things from your games?
 
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I think about the universe and write things about it with numbers in it.
 
I put colors and stuff into plastics to make them pretty and make them last longer.
 
Andy Resnick said:
We feed them cow blood
Ewww!
 
What if God is weally, weally up dewe and not invisible like those mean people on Facebook say, and if we look at what contum...kwanza, car, mechanic-fixer--that science wiffs all the things going round and round the other things and the light that comes in packages? You know the one? All we haves to do is keep looking at dat science with all those other dimens...places we can't see yet, and we'll find out god lives in one of them and is not weally invisible.

And dats what science means to me!

Brittany with an i, age 5 and three-quarters.
 
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Bandersnatch said:
Ewww!

Exactly... (cue the Dr. Evil laugh)
 
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I get up in the morning and after a couple of hours of browsing the web, I try to decide what I important things I should accomplish during the day. While thinking about that, I occupy myself doing random things that come up, including taking some naps. (This is called retirement.)
 
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I like to makɘ things. Only not real things like you can hold, but things that live in my compluter. Other pɘople like to look at the things I make. And it helps them do things they like to do.
 
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I make clean rooms cleaner... which sounds like way too much of a chore...
 
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Stephen Tashi said:
I get up in the morning and after a couple of hours of browsing the web, I try to decide what I important things I should accomplish during the day. While thinking about that, I occupy myself doing random things that come up, including taking some naps. (This is called retirement.)

More succinctly, I would call retirement "being on summer vacation all the time."

(not quite there yet, give me a few more months...)
 
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Well, when I was working, if I was age 6, I'd say I worked with scary people, that called me from planes being chased by bad guys, chasing bad guys, going into hiding, in foreign countries. Now, I'd be too bored to stop coloring with my crayons.
 
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Evo said:
Well, when I was working, if I was age 6, I'd say I worked with scary people, that called me from planes being chased by bad guys, chasing bad guys, going into hiding, in foreign countries. Now, I'd be too bored to stop coloring with my crayons.
What job is that?o_O
 
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Shayan.J said:
What job is that?o_O
I worked with The Department of Homeland Security.
 
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Evo said:
I worked with The Department of Homeland Security.
I didn't know such incidents are so common that they can constitute a job description!
 
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Shayan.J said:
I didn't know such incidents are so common that they can constitute a job description!
yeah
 
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I take dirt and mix it with magic smoke to make it special.
 
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Like a 6 year old..

Look, Jane, look.
See Jack work
Work Jack work
Work, work, work.
See Jack work.
 
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I play on my computer to make things. I play with electricity to make things. My company sells lots of my things. :smile:

Sometimes I get shocked, though. It hurts... :wideeyed:
 
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Like Evo I played DHS then when I came home I had weally big toys that dug big holes in the ground, one would dig 33' deep and one would lift 12,000 pounds in one scoop. I loved pushing dirt and digging holes and sometimes other people payed me money to fill their toys with dirt and gravel. I had a weally good time but now I don't do that anymore :cool::biggrin::smile: I'm weally happy:smile::biggrin:
 
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This thread would be easier if we could get Randall Munroe to build us a Ten Hundred Words People Use Most Often Generator.
 
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berkeman said:
I play on my computer to make things. I play with electricity to make things. My company sells lots of my things. [emoji2]

Sometimes I get shocked, though. It hurts... :wideeyed:
Oh, so it's like my favourite game? Hold on, pioneer!
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It's a game where you have to withstand small electric shocks :-)
 
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So what I do is... stop poking your brother. No, you're not married to a Guinea Pig if you kiss it. Wow that is a cool dragon. Don't sit on the stool like that. Because you'll tip over. No, I don't know what baby dragons eat. Just leave it! Okay, so at work I ... I told you not to sit on the stool like that. Sure, you can have a Band-aid. I don't know if a dragon can marry a Guinea Pig or not, but sure. When people get really sick... no lot like when you threw up in the car... yes that was really sick, but I work with people that are sick in a different way... yes sometimes they throw up... I have a really big machine that cures them or makes them feel better. It shoots a beam of light at the disease that's making them sick. Sure, I suppose it's kind of like the Death Star... No, it doesn't make them explode.
 
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Ah, Choppy, but you described your work like you're talking to a 6 year old - not like you are that age. ;)
 
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I produce ionizing radiation and aim it at poor unsuspecting individuals. (I'm a 6 y/o with an amazing vocabulary. :biggrin: )
 
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See all those poles out there with the big wires between them? I use my computer to draw them on big pieces of paper. It tells the loud men in the shop how to build them and where they need to go to do it.

Then a guy in a suit comes and yells at me and says he does not want to spend so much money on my poles and motor operator-thingys.

So then I make new drawings so he can keep his money.

Then the loud guys in the shop yell at me and say it is too hard to build it the way the guy in the suit wants it.

(Talking like a 6-year-old was harder than I thought. Great thread!)
 
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I work in a Kindergarten for old people.
 

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