"I own a small, internet based risk management consultant firm"

"no, no, really small, like I am the entire company, but I really like the freedom it allows me...."

I agree 100% with the PS. I usually just make something up a lot of the time to avoid the awkward moments afterwards. "Internet marketing" is my favorite, avoids questions... It jus sucks when Im meeting a girl for the first time, because it's either start off with some kind of lie (generally bad) or risk having her have a bad impression of me (possibly bad) depending on her views....because there are also tons of people who think it's cool.

What's kind of funny about it though is that if you said you opened a restaurant they'd be like oh wow that's awesome etc etc.... despite the fact that it has the same drawbacks of poker (no pension/retirement plan, benefits, paid vacation etc) and the same risk (more IMO) of failure or partial loss of investment