Who else has trouble answering the “Occupation” field on forms, when it’s a predetermined list of options, with no “Other” option?
I guess the closest thing, for me, would be “Information Technology, Systems,” but I’ve spent much of my adult life explaining to others that I’m not in IT, so it feels wrong to select that.
I often got hit on this throughout my career as a software developer - it's weird that it wouldn't appear on many of these lists.
It isn't limited to our profession. My wife does meta-analysis of drugs and therapeutics, and manages the publication of this information. She usually gets lumped into "Health" or "Publishing" depending on whose list she gets to pick from.
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