I couldn't explain what I do.

I couldn’t explain what I do. I tried to explain in plain words what I do as an IT person.

All these clouds, DevOps culture, servers…

A grown adult. Smartphone, laptop, websites and apps every day. No way.

It was discouraging.

Help me out - how do you explain to a “five-year-old” what a “server” is? What the “cloud” is?

Simple. No jargon, no month-long lecture just to define the terms.