If it makes you feel any better, some people you talk to here probably also don't understand. I live and work here but all my jobs here have been contractor positions doing technical work that involves sitting and staring at a two monitors 8 or 10 hours a day, clicking and typing, typing and clicking, rarely getting to talk to anyone at all. The people I know who have these policy/advocacy/issues-oriented jobs explain to me what they do and I nod and say "Oh, OK" but rarely understand wtf they're talking about beyond the absolute basics.

When everyone was suddenly WFH in 2020, I had a neighbor whose balcony was right next to my bedroom window and I could see her out there the whole spring, doing Zoom meetings on her lap top two or three times a day. I was fascinated but also totally mystified that someone's job could entail spending so much of the day talking to people. Some jobs are just hard to understand if they're very different from yours.