You're right to not reveal your nerdiness to people, Tejaswini. Next thing you know, they'll respond to your stories just for an excuse to ask questions about functionality on their laptops.

I'm fortunate. Yes, I have a computer science bachelors. But, I can honestly tell people I'm unfamiliar with current technology. I got the degree in 1985, back when the landscape was dominated by mainframes and associated languages. I started out creating Cobol programs with eighty-column punch cards. When I left the field, we were using DOS commands to do stuff on desktop machines.

So keep your guard up, T. Otherwise, people will phone you instead of getting into the queues for IT Help lines.