Eagle-Talk (Preparing for Episode 4!)

In non-being-a-flippant-shit news, I think it's interesting to hear from anyone with a specialized set of knowledge or skills what things that laypeople think their job includes or things they know that are not the case. Like, I conceptualize Akumu's (old?) career as literally just firing lasers at things 24/7 and taking notes on a clipboard because I lack a lot of the knowledge framework to really understand what he really does without asking a series of questions I feel would be tiresome to answer, so I just tell myself a little story that combines the handful of things I do know and speaks to the narratives that I've absorbed culturally. What misconceptions do the eagles in academia encounter I guess is the question I'm asking.