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I just tell people that I am a "professional button pusher"
I dont know where I heard this story but it was something like the following:
In a company a very valuable machine breaks and becomes inoperable, so they call the support. They send a mechanic to fix the machine. The mechanic arrives inspects the machine, opens it, presses a button and it works as if nothing happened. The manager then asks why he is paying the mechanic just to press a button. The mechanic answers "you aren't paying me for pressing the button, but for knowing which button to press".
Knowing which buttons to push is the valuable part though.
That's what diffs a professional button pusher from an amateur button pusher.
When you know which buttons in which order get you money, you become a professional.