What sort of reactions do you get when you tell people what you do for a living?

Question: What sort of reactions do you get when you tell people what you do for a living?
- Keywords:
  job,
  living,
  reaction
Asked by satki to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 20 Jun 2016.
- Euan Allen answered on 20 Jun 2016:
  
  Most people are interested to know what you are researching and how it might be useful for them one day. I haven’t had a bad response yet, so I think generally people think being a scientist is a worthy job to have and that they contribute to society.
- Maheen Siddiqui answered on 21 Jun 2016:
  
  People tell me they think thats very interesting! And whether its difficult to work with babies.
- Rob Stanley answered on 22 Jun 2016:
  
  People go: ‘Oh you must be very clever!’ Which annoys me because working hard is far more important than any natural intelligence at succeeding.

Question: What sort of reactions do you get when you tell people what you do for a living?