Posted by RuRu/NC on 2/27/12 6:17pm
Msg #413273

IS THIS ALL YOU DO?

do you get tired of this question and what is your standard answer?

Reply by Clem/CA on 2/27/12 6:21pm
Msg #413275

I tell um about my Camel farm, Hemp plantation, and Beer Garden, but they don't believe me.

Reply by jba/fl on 2/27/12 6:33pm
Msg #413281

I love it! When I come to CA I will look you up. LOL n/m

Reply by mwm143 on 2/27/12 7:15pm
Msg #413292

I tell them I also have a real estate license as well as a mortgage loan officer license. Which I do.

Reply by Saul Leibowitz on 2/27/12 8:33pm
Msg #413306

I tell them I do 25-30 of "these" per month, get to meet some lovely people and see some nice homes and they nod, look at the white hair again, and go back to signing.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 2/27/12 10:05pm
Msg #413316

Q: "IS THIS ALL YOU DO?" Me: "Oh, heck no. My other job

"is changing looks really fast; leaping tall buildings in a single bound; saving the world; and writing brilliant news stories - all with perfect hair. But this is about the same, I guess. Ha! Yep...pay's just as stingy, and no employer bennies with either one. How much glam and splender can one take?

Anyway, this form is the..."

Reply by GOLDGIRL/CA on 2/27/12 10:08pm
Msg #413317

Great one, Susan! n/m

Reply by MW/VA on 2/28/12 8:38am
Msg #413333

LOL, Susan. Now we know your true identity. :-) n/m

Reply by bagger on 2/28/12 12:21pm
Msg #413356

Re: LOL, Susan. Now we know your true identity. :-)

Just one of Susan's myriad jobs.

Reply by HisHughness on 2/27/12 10:44pm
Msg #413321

"Oh, no. On weekends I run a string of working girls down on South Congress Avenue.

"By the way: You look familiar. You don't drive a blue 4-door Mazda (the type car parked in the driveway), do you?"

Reply by CJ on 2/28/12 12:17am
Msg #413326

I'm always flabergasted when I get this question. I know it looks easy -- sitting there with my eyes glazing over while they read and double check everything, and I know it's the same boilerplate the last 5,000 people scrutinized.

I say, "This is all I do. And when I am not doing this, I am looking for more work, or trying to figure out who didn't pay me. And if I miss a signature, I get to go back on my own free time at YOUR convenience. It's sort of like having a two-year-old: I can't really plan anything, because I am ALWAYS on call."

I try to make it sound terrible, because I think they ask this because it looks like an easy way to make money in your "spare time". Follow-up questions tend to be, "How much schooling do you need to do this? How do you find your customers". And then "because this would be GREAT for my out-of-work sister / retired husband / part time for me for mad money".

Reply by NJDiva on 2/28/12 10:10am
Msg #413338

Love the responses. I say...

"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. That's proprietary information which I am not at liberty to discuss."

It usually makes people laugh but also shuts em up.

Reply by Alz on 2/28/12 12:41pm
Msg #413359

I think I will borrow this statement from you n/m

Reply by NJDiva on 2/28/12 1:48pm
Msg #413376

Welcome to it Alz. It really is quite effective. n/m

Reply by ikando on 2/28/12 1:29pm
Msg #413371

I usually get the follow-up of "how do you get to be a notary?" I direct them to the SOS site. That usually stops them because they don't want to put in the effort.

Reply by 101livescan on 2/28/12 11:34am
Msg #413349

I also perform live scan fingerprinting required by the CA DOJ and FBI for just about any line of work out there these days. AND,

Every day at 1pm I'm on the courthouse steps crying foreclosure sales and postponements, cancellations, etc. So if you don't make you house payments, I'll be crying your sale too...now hurry up and sign these documents so I can get on with my day!

(Just Kidding!) To some it looks like this job is just too easy, right. Susan you left out CATCHING SPEEDING BULLETS IN OUR BARE TEETH...this is not a cake walk job by any means, and we all know it!

Have an awesome day!

Reply by Susan Fischer on 2/28/12 11:51am
Msg #413352

Oh dang, right you are - how could I forget the

excitement part...

Reply by bagger on 2/28/12 12:20pm
Msg #413355

I say, Yep, I am retired, I do this for beer money!

Reply by Stephanie Santiago on 2/28/12 12:58pm
Msg #413362

Re: IS THIS ALL YOU DO?<smile> n/m

Reply by NJDiva on 2/28/12 1:49pm
Msg #413377

LMAO BAGGER!!! n/m

Reply by JanetK_CA on 2/29/12 1:21am
Msg #413457

And isn't it interesting how sometimes those are the same ones who don't listen and don't pay attention to what they're doing? But some of that stuff is made up for by the ones who say "I don't know how you manage to keep track of all those forms!" or "I could never do what you do!" or "Do you ever get scared going into stranger's homes?" etc.

My favorites, though, are the ones who simply say "Thanks for making this so painless!"

Reply by RuRu/NC on 2/29/12 11:10pm
Msg #413587

It's funny. From California to North Carolina.We are leading parallel lives with our job. I like the beer money answer.