Originally Posted by ***First of Two Latin Kings***
The biggest flaw in this logic is that for some people [like myself] this is their main source of income or ONLY source of income. What you described is basically the job description, the backbone skill to being a successful re-seller. Otherwise you're losing money or only breaking even, 'cept you never really break even since there is so much work involved if you don't know what you're doing.
Publicly discussing profit margins in front of potential customers is not the backbone skill to being a successful re-seller. The ability to spot a deal, strong negotiation skills, and solid customer service are. This fact doesn't change whether one does this full-time or just on the side.
Is being a construction worker like going to the bathroom? I would imagine that being a doctor, nurse, or sanitation worker is like going to the bathroom since there are times one might have to deal with pee or poo. So there would be aspects of those sorts of jobs that might not be dinner conversation.
Since you asked, the answer is "no". In the context I gave before, being a construction worker is not like going to the bathroom. I'm not sure you understood what I said. Not everyone is a construction worker and it's perfectly fine to talk about many aspects of being a construction worker in many public settings.
And yes, there are aspects of being a doctor, nurse, or sanitation worker that are not appropriate dinner conversation. You got that part right. THIS is the part that equates to what we're talking about. You can talk a lot about being a re-seller without publicly discussing specific profits and losses in front of potential clients.
HOWEVER:
If I were dating someone and she introduced me to her parents, and one of them asked me what I do, and the other said "don't ask him that, Marge! Talking about what you do for a living is like talking about going to the bathroom!" I might reconsider marrying into that family.
You said they asked what you did, not what your margins are. They ask what you do, you say something along the lines of "I search the internet, conventions, and swap meets for deals on collectible toys and other items and I sell them to collectors." You seem to be really hung up on the bathroom analogy.
Coro and I don't always see eye to eye sometimes, but he is a veteran who served in some branch of the military, so I don't think anyone is in any position to regulate his free speech if he fought for ours. Just my opinions.
No one is trying to punish anyone for what they are saying, (which is explicitly what the first amendment protects) so let's please stop any political grandstanding before it starts. I'm not even trying to silence anyone. You've got the right to talk about tacky stuff in public the same way I have the right to comment on the tackiness of said subject. I only brought it up because there seemed to be a general dismissal of social norms that I'm guessing was rooted ignorance (meaning, you didn't know what you didn't know). I had hoped my comment would either alert you to the social misstep or at least initiate the conversation to discuss it further. It did.
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