What's your degree in?
Which one? I have several.
What are you paid to do?
I am a researcher affiliated with one of the largest universities in the United States. One that has produced either as faculty or alum, 28 Nobel Prize laureates. With the exception of three in Economics and one in Peace, all have been in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine.
Was the hamster crack a little too close to home?
I don't know. Ask your nose - it's closer to the hamster crack than anything else. And by the way, what are your qualifications?
Ah, that explains a lot, including why I make so much more money than you do.
Ever had a real job in the private sector, or have you hid in academia your entire life?
Or perhaps there isn't much call in the private sector for hamster researchers, eh?