Get ChatGPT to explain your job in terms a 5 year old would understand

[Matt N]

Hi guys. I was having a read through Facebook this morning and stumbled across a link to a Reddit thread in r/ChatGPT, where a user asked ChatGPT to explain their job to a 5 year old:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mjdyvl

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mjdyvl/i_asked_chatgpt_to_explain_my_job_to_a_5yearold/

The opening poster admitted that ChatGPT’s explanation made them question their usefulness, but many others had quite sweet and fun explanations. With this in mind, I’d be interested to know; what does ChatGPT come out with if you ask it to explain your job to a 5 year old?

I’ll get the ball rolling! I recently secured a temporary employment post at a civil service body, and my formal job title, to my knowledge, will be Graduate Data Analyst. For purposes of ease, I asked ChatGPT to explain what a data analyst does to a 5 year old, and it came out with the following:

Okay! Imagine you have a big box of LEGO blocks all mixed up. There are red ones, blue ones, tiny ones, and huge ones. It looks like a big mess!

A data analyst is kind of like a helper who sorts through that box.

• They count the blocks (like “We have 50 blue ones!”).
• They group them (like “All the red ones go here, all the green ones go there”).
• They look for patterns (like “Wow, we have twice as many blue blocks as yellow ones!”).
• Then they tell a story with what they find (like “We can build a bigger castle if we use the blue blocks first”).

So, a data analyst’s job is to take a big messy pile of information and make it easy to understand—kind of like turning that LEGO mess into a nice picture of what you can build.

Do you want me to give you a fun little real-life example, like about candy or toys, instead of LEGO?

And when I took it up on its offer to give me a real life example, it came up with the following:

Alright! Let’s use candy .

Imagine you dump out a huge bag of candy on the table. It’s all mixed up—chocolates, lollipops, gummies, and mints. A data analyst would:

• Count them → “We have 12 chocolates, 8 lollipops, 5 gummies, and 3 mints.”
• Sort them → Put each kind into its own pile.
• Find patterns → “Hey! Chocolates are the most common, and mints are the rarest.”
• Tell a story → “If we want everyone to get candy, we can share chocolates first since we have the most. But we’ll have to be careful with the mints because there are only a few.”

So, a data analyst is like a candy detective —they take a big messy pile of stuff and figure out what’s going on, then explain it in a simple way.

Want me to turn this into a fun little picture so you can see how it looks?

And the fun little picture it gave me was this:

But I’d be interested to know; how does ChatGPT explain your job to a 5 year old?

 

[Chris Coasters]

I work for Titleist the golf ball manufacturer so I said explain that I make golf balls to a 5 year old. I got an explanation and a story but I had to make an account for the picture so no picture.

You know those little balls people hit when they play golf? I help make those! I work in a place where we build them just right — so they’re the perfect size, super bouncy, and fly really far when you hit them. We make sure they’re strong and round with tiny little dents on them so they can zoom through the air better. It’s kind of like making a super cool bouncy ball, but for


The Magic Golf Ball Maker

Once upon a time, there was a very clever person (that’s YOU!) who worked in a special workshop where they made magical little balls called golf balls.

These balls weren’t just any balls — oh no! They had to be just the right size, just the right weight, and they had tiny little bumps all over them so they could fly through the sky like zooming birds!

Every day, you mixed secret ingredients (like a wizard!) and put them into special machines that squish and shape the golf balls. Then you gave them a spin and a bounce to make sure they were strong and super fun to hit!

People all over the world used the golf balls you made to play games in sunny fields, trying to get the ball into a tiny hole far, far away.

And that’s how you became the Magic Golf Ball Maker — helping people have fun, one perfect ball at a time!

The end.