There's a meme going around called #upgoerfive, where you have have to describe your work with the 1,000 (or ten hundred) most common words in English. Below is my attempt to describe my job in site remediation at an environmental and engineering consulting firm.
If you'd like to make your own, the text editor is here: http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
Enjoy!
"At my job, we go and look at places where the water and the ground are
not clean. Clean water and ground keep people from a sooner death. We
see how not clean the water and ground are, and think of ways to make
the water and ground clean again. Making the water and the ground clean
takes a lot of money and a lot of time. People who made the water and
ground not clean do not always want to spend money to make it clean
again. Sometimes we can't find the people who made things not clean.
Then other people have to spend money instead. There are important
people who need us to make the water and ground clean as part of their
job, and they have ways it must be done. Sometimes the important people
and the people with the money do not agree on how to make water and
ground clean again. Then my job is to help both people agree so that
the clean up work gets finished and there is less sooner death in the
world"
