Awkward (and other) questions about MNers jobs-following on from *Pinocchio's 1st thread.

Teachers - In your experience do a lot of difficult children have even more difficult parents (i.e. the naughty ones seem to have rude parents) more often or the well behaved kids have some real arseholey parents?

It really depends, some lovely children have parents who i find it difficult to get on with, some badly behaved pupils have amazing supportive parents.

Sometimes lovely pupils have lovely parents, sometimes I can see why a challenging pupil behaves as they do because of parental influence.

I've learnt that you can't assume and you shouldn't judge.

Still18, I'm not a train driver but my Dad is (well, he drives steam engines, but his day job was railway manager/consultant). Yes, I think train drivers know where they are - unless anything has changed radically, you need to learn the route before you a cleared to drive a train on your own. There are names of places that would mean nothing to passengers, like, I dunno, Quarry Bank loop or so on.

Kitty

are you sick of the sight of pizza? do you ever eat it when out or at home as home made, shop bought or takeaway?

or would you just prefer to eat your cat when you wash yourself into a corner?

Terror I have to touch anchovies. I've had people order tuna, anchovies and pineapple before...

Just as a point, I make the pizzas I don't deliver them. I couldn't handle the abuse some drivers get

Oh yay part 2 :)

I can't remember the questions I posted on the previous thread, but think a few were unanswered but can't be arsed to c&p so here are a few more:

Foster Carers - What's the maximum amount of time you can have one of your charges (not sure of the right terminology, sorry).

Hairdressers - What products do you yourself use at home?

Police Officers - What would you do if you found out a friend was taking illegal drugs? Would you tell the police, warn them to stop doing it or just turn a blind eye?

Teachers - In your experience do a lot of difficult children have even more difficult parents (i.e. the naughty ones seem to have rude parents) more often or the well behaved kids have some real arseholey parents?

Chefs - Is there a certain meal you have to cook for your job but you can't stand the look of/smell of it and dread when someone orders it?

I work for a large pizza delivery company if anyone has any questions?

oh good one!

Midwives- do you really not mind people swearing at you when in labour?
and just how do you cope with the stress, the responsibility?
and what about the mess we make?
how how how?

I take all my hats off to you for doing an amazing job!
6 kids here, I am in eternal debt to all our fantastic midwives and the care they provided!

mignonette, loads of fodder for a novel I should think and far better than Ms Rowling's which I only got 30% of the way through before getting bored with the inaccuracies!

Sadly, I don't have any allotments at the moment, although one of my parishes would love them (the other two mostly are huge houses with enormous gardens and one of those has, apparently, the highest percentage of private swimming pools in the area!), but I'm finding it difficult to get a landowner to let us have some land.

I could also write a book about my experience as a church furnisher - you wouldn't believe the characters involved!

Unknowing of this thread my Dad asked me earlier if aside from knowing that they are between two stations, do train drivers know exactly where they are?

Mignonette - I'm a journalist for tv news, i don't write about tv for a paper / magazine. I don't watch enough of it to be any good at that!

These have been really fascinating threads. I'm sure that questions came into my tiny mind while I was reading it but I can't remember them now!

My current job came about as I had more time once DS2 went to Playgroup (I'm a Parish Clerk for three small villages), but I have experience in membership services of a very large charity, as a church furnisher and as a PA.

Ha ha oh my goodness is that what people are wearing these days?!

Makingdoo, what would you recommend for a 42 year old bride, 5 foot 4, ginger, green eyes, size 14 top 12 bottom, horribly thick legs, no tan, marrying in a very old church but happy to be unconventional?

I'm just waiting for confirmation on how much Tess Daley's stylist hates her - a suspicion I've had for some time...

I can answer the question about the coloured boxes on the edge of cereal boxes, packaging, newspapers and so on. As part of various roles I've bought print for many years.

Most coloured items are printed in 'four colour' process - the colours are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - which are tweaked to represent all colours. Each of the colours has its own plate, and paper goes through each colour ink separately.

The wee boxes etc are there for the printer to check that the paper has not shifted during print, and the four colours are lining up correctly. You'll notice when they don't because it gives that horrible 'shadow' effect that makes your eyes go squiggly (at least it does mine :)).

This is my favourite thread ever . I work in a breakdown call centre if anyone wants to know anything!

Thanks for that. My suspicions are confirmed.

I live very near a bridal shop and probably 9/10 dresses in the window are the same bastard shape, which I've never seen suit anyone.

That shape was fairly new when I got married nearly ten years ago (!) and I'm glad I avoided it. I would have looked absolutely daft hoiking up my dress all day long as so many brides do. They also all look naked in their closeup photos...

Mignonette - I always enjoyed, and was good at, english at school and when I came to terms with the fact I wasn't clever enough to be a vet, I decided on journalism. I wanted to work in papers though - just sort of fell into tv. I know it's a field lots are keen on so I was very lucky. I'm currently on maternity leave with dc1 so not sure yet what effect she'll have on it.

mignonette Yes sometimes. There are some brides that you create a lovely bond with. You do get to know them quite well sometimes and can become emotionally attached. In the flip side I'm a nightmare wedding guest

Thanks for the info makingdoo. Unlikely I will ever need a wedding dress again but should miracles happen I will remember that classic the way to go!

mignonette wrt how I found myself a primary teacher - it was only after having my own dcs that I realised how much I enjoyed spending time with children and how fascinating child development/learning is. I also thought, wrongly as it happens, that as a LP teaching would give me time with my own dcs....