You’re job in a nutshell....

[MaidenMotherCrone]

Forget the job titles what is it you actually do?

I sit on my bottom for 10hrs looking very closely at things whilst listening to talking books and drinking tea 😁

Fold jeans into funny shapes, dress up shop dummies, help people pick outfits. Pick things up off the floor.

@catpyjama yes, we get support if we want it, but they mainly check that we have our head screwed on and a good network of people around us to talk if needed.
I feel like I'm helping, so that makes it less awful.

I keep restaurants open or get them reopened by making sure stuff gets repaired on time.

I veer between looking at spreadsheets, showing people the numbers on the spreadsheets and asking them to explain them.
I also have meetings with head teachers and explain more spreadsheets to them. People also ask me if they can leave early and occasionally cry on my shoulder.

I swan about drinking champagne and showing my face and then occasionally write a budget and have difficult conversations with people about money while keeping them my friends!

Today I am staring very closely at pieces of paper and adding little ticks to them which denote I have verified the content to be correct.
Later I will sign the said papers (once corrected).

Read stuff, check it for spelling, sense and syle, correct it.

Part of my job is to help people to have a good death, this part is really, really important to me ❤️

Collect things, glue things, paint things
Sort driftwood into piles
Play with sea glass

Look at words, put my face in my hands and go 'aaargh' a lot
Also, think about some things while talking about other things
Write really long sentences which people seem impressed by
Destroy my little pony notebooks by writing illegible things about made up people on them
Consume lots of caffeine
Sing Disney songs & build structures that will imminently face destruction
Never sleep. Never. Sleep.

I'm a student parent :')

Sit at a desk looking at emails. Re-write stuff other people have written. Explain why we can't do the thing someone wants to do. Give people advice that they won't take. Go to meetings and talk about things that won't happen. Drink coffee. Eat. Repeat.

Make chemicals, set up experiments. Watch kids destroy them.

Minding my children at home
getting paint everywhere with the kids
putting on silly voices to read and play with play people and puppets
Changing stinky nappies
Making up 3 kiddy meals a day (breakfast lunch and dinner) plus 2 snacks
Building toot toot track
Doing some cardio or aerobics whilst dd naps, but at the same time trying not to step on the Lego or playdough my ds is playing with right under my feet!
The freedom of making a hot drink when I want but microwaving it twice before I get to drink it!

I tell other people how to do their job, and also talk to people who might want me to tell them how to do their job and convince them this is an excellent notion.

Amongst fiddling with many other things with numbers on - telephone arse-kicking.
(I call other businesses and tell them that if they want the urgent order they just placed to be sent out, then they have to pay for the stuff they had two months ago first)

I decide if its worth copying what someone else has just done

I work with mostly teenagers and sometimes their families.

I get shouted at by parents, puked on by children and moaned at by teachers, type letters, read legislation and re arrange how we do everything as a result, give medicine, put plasters on knees, reconcile invoices.

Schools or parents call me when they, or a child in their care are in a pickle. Sometimes a smallish one, usually a biggish one. I attempt to use my seven years of academic training and fifteen years of work experience to help them to lessen the pickle. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.

doing 'stuff', mostly glazing into a crystal ball trying to read people's minds, as that's what is expected of me. I work with only men. Nuff said.

Structured nagging

I read emails from people to my boss telling him how much they hate him. I categorise hundreds of these emails telling him what to do in many situations- often all contradicting each other.
I draft answers to those emails & occasionally contact the police about them.

I research stuff & write reports.

I would like time to fast forward about 2 years.

(Work for an MP)

Reassuring perfectly well adults that they have a "viral cold" and don't need antibiotics

I stare at FB and LinkedIn.
I write articles badly in a second language, which then have to be rewritten by somebody else.
I tinker with the website.
When it all gets too much I wash up.
And I like to take the tea towels home and put them on a boil wash.

I look at vaginas and the odd penis every day trying to convince people that there's actually nothing wrong with them.