This was an actual conversation that I had earlier this evening while bumping into someone who used to be IT support at the Publishing Company I used to work for:

Me: Oh, I finally got a job and I've been working for the past month and a half as a blah, blah, blah at blah, blah, blah.

Ex-Coworker: Oh really, that's cool.

Me: What are you doing?

Ex-Coworker: I'm a massage therapist.

Me: Oh really, where'd you get laid off from?