A flight attendant, a neighbor, an acquaintance on a train,
How do you tell people what you do for a living when they ask what it is?
I find it difficult to answer what a Sound Designer does in 3 sentences or less - it usually goes into the history of Apocalypse Now through Star Wars and into Hurt Locker or No Country for Old Men and I spend about 30 minutes at(at least) explaining the field.
What do you tell people?