Is it considered a "characteristic" of your profession to talk to

[Crazy Guggenheim]

yourself? I know in I.T. it is.

[skygazer]

1. Not of my profession

but I do it all the time. I work retail which makes it very odd - luckily my co-workers and regular customers know I'm relatively harmless and those who don't know me just look at me oddly. :shrug:

Seriously, though, I find that saying things out loud helps me remember them better.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. lol. In some professions it's almost like if you don't, then they

think there's something weird about you.

[aden_nak]

3. As an I.T. person myself, it is characteristic to yell at myself.

Usually in the most gutteral form of English possible.

Specifically, to yell things like, "Motherfucking assclowns still don't know where the god damned CAPS LOCK key is! How long have you been here, a fucking week? I'll kill you! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. Hu hu hu hu hu hu. Get 'em.

[Newsman Matt Drudge]

5. NO ONE ELSE TALKS TO ME

SO IT WOULD BE A REAL PROBLEM FOR ME IF I DIDN'T TALK TO MYSELF. AND FORTUNATELY, I'VE GOT A REAL ACTIVE IMAGINATION AND A WEBSITE ON WHICH TO POST THE VARIOUS SHIT I MAKE UP.

[two gun sid]

6. I talk to myself at work all the time.

I'm a high voltage electrician. I'm constantly reminding myself that "those motherfuckin' conductors are hot". It seems to calm me.

[BlueJazz]

7. I'm in I.T. and I not only talk to myself but I hold....

...long conversations with BlueJazz. He's usually the one that's easiest to to talk to.. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I no longer have a formal profession...however,

all my life I've been talking to myself, pretending there's someone there to respond to me. Sometimes there's a crowd! Ya never know...I think I'm sane!

:shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. This one place I was working at some years ago, a person

went up to my boss and 'Is the new IT guy ok? He's talkng to himself.' My boss said "Of course he is. He's in IT and suppose to."

lol.

[aden_nak]

14. TRUTH.

[Texasgal]

10. Well...

I constantly talk to myself as well as serveral of my collegues. I am an RN, so I am constantly trying to stay focused.

We once had a surgeon that always spoke in his dictaphone, I mean... he did it all of the time, you could be having a conversation with him and he would grab his device and he would start talking into it about something completely different. He was weird.

Edit: spelling

[silverweb]

23. Now that's funny!

I have no trouble at all picturing your weird surgeon talking constantly into his dictaphone.

:D

[Texasgal]

25. Yeah....

He was something else.

We used to get patients complaining all of the time because he seemed "aloof" or "confused". Our staff joked all of the time that we should steal his dictaphone and see what would happen! HA!!

He's gone now, thank god. :)

[Saphire]

11. I find myself talking to my parents, both of whom are dead.

fortunatly, they never talk back...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Sorry to hear about your parents.

[Radio_Lady]

17. Sorry you talk to the dead. I THINK about talking to my parents,

who are also dead, but only THINK it.

I do talk to myself sometimes to calm down any feelings of dread. It's called "thought-topping" and it's a conscious technique I learned in the 1980s to help conquer my fear of flying.

[EC]

13. Yes... n/t

[jandrok]

15. No, you I.T. guys are freaks, that's all.

I work with plenty of you folks, I oughtta know. Hell, I dabble on the fringes in MY job. But back to the point, you're all a bunch of freaks, plain and simple.

Not only do you talk to yourselves, you also talk to all of the various D&D and fantasy creature models and figurines that you have populating your office spaces. That's what one of the programmers HERE does, anyway. Another one hoards ammo and food, waiting for the "big day". Another one of our guys hasn't dated a real woman in 15 years. Oh, and we have one guy that likes to fly model airplanes and helicopters in the office spaces. It was real amusing the day that he hit one of the sprinklers and set off the fire zone. THAT was a fun cleanup.

Freaks, the whole bunch a yas.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. I am not the typical IT person. Hu!

[jandrok]

19. For that, my friend, you should thank your lucky stars.

;-)

Seriously, I like most of the programmer types that I work with. A few do manage to mystify me sometimes, but that's normal when working with IT folks. The guy who talks to his figurines worries me a little, especially because he's been hanging out with the "ammo and food" guy lately. Hmmmmmmmm......

[Crazy Guggenheim]

22. That's different. A lot different.

[trackfan]

18. I.T. guy here talks to himself in the stall of the men's room

I refer to him as "the madman"

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. I think I've seen Accountants do it also.

On Edit:

A lot of Science and Engineering too.

[silverweb]

21. Oh yeah!

I'm a medical transcriptionist and I talk back to the doctors who are dictating all the time. Sometimes I also talk to the computer or to myself, not usually in a complementary way.

:D

Thinking back, I recall that I talked to myself when I was doing inside sales years ago, as well. People around me had a little trouble with that at first, but they got used to it after a while.

[Ratty]

24. At work or at home?

I talk to myself a lot at home but really I don't seem to at work. I always thought the defining characteristic of IT guys is spending too much time surfing for porn when noone's looking.

[mainegreen]

26. Its because no one understands what we say

As a programmer I have to talk to myself. Whenever I talk to someone at work, they stare at me all glaze eyed until I realize my sentence was basically a giant blob of technical acronyms I strung together into a sentence. At least when I talk to myself both parties to the conversation understand it.

:bounce: