Yesterday my husband told me 'my job is more tiring than yours'. Aibu?
I am a teacher. He is a set designer. He works freelance, works tirelessly on a show and then has a block of time off/preparing for rehersals. Yesterday morning I was up early to interview for a head teacher role. I was out of the house before 7. He had a show opening so he worked from 11 until he could sneak out of the opening night drinks.
I attended the opening night too and the drinks afterwards to celebrate with his colleagues. On the drive home, DH was complaining of how tired he was. How he was up early. How he's wrecked. I mentioned how I was up at dawn and was told 'well your work isn't as tiring'. I feel quite undermined and it's playing on my mind that he sees my job this way.
(And before anyone starts saying teachers have it easy, I can see that from the outside but I run half term/summer camps for extra money and work breakfast club)