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Re:I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friend... by ghaff on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:55PM (#28249218)
In technology or really professional fields more broadly, saying you're a consultant is probably the best way to obfuscate a lot of travel, sort of vague job duties, etc. especially with friends and family who never really understood what you were paid for anyway.

Now, it will presumably be obvious that you now are comfortably well off but, so long as you don't buy that penthouse suite in Manhattan, they don't need to know how well off you are.

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Re:I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friend... by TMWNN on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:18PM (#28250915)
>In technology or really professional fields more broadly, saying you're a consultant is probably the best way to obfuscate a lot of travel, sort of vague job duties, etc. especially with friends and family who never really understood what you were paid for anyway.

This is also what young women just out of college, typically having played varsity sports, do after setting themselves up as a call girl working for a madam: They say they are working in consulting.

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