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 😁

Being a sahm isn't a job though is it?

Talk to/email the clients.
Make sure that everything is just so. Organise, risk assessments, delegate tasks.
Count the days to retirement.

I talk to people, play with numbers and write things down.

I put away lots and lots of paper. And drink tea.

I mostly argue with people about what the contract they signed without reading actually means.

And take the blame.

(freehold manager).

I speak to crowds of unlistening people, write things that no-one will ever read and go to lots and lots of meetings where I (and all my colleagues) are the unlistening ones. I provide hot drinks, advice if asked, and general counselling services (for which I have no training) to the same people who have paid me no attention when they're en masse. In between, I do a few equations and ignore testy initial emails from lawyers wanting free reports from me by yesterday, which helpfully omit any information that would enable me to write said report. Then I fill in lots of forms and spreadsheets--that no one will ever refer to again - with my office door locked so I can pretend I'm out and not talk about random shite with the irritating colleague no-one can ever shake off.

Much better than my last job, which was somewhat similar except with significantly more meetings and exponentially more irritating time-wasting colleagues. And where I was given a disciplinary for locking myself into my own office.

I get micro managed by a guy who isn't my boss. He's paid treble what I am and would rather check and monitor what I'm doing than do his own job!

I do admin in education, he's a complete dick and his micro managing is coming to an end. I've told the overall boss what he does and she's far from impressed!

@juneybean not a paid job no, but still a job, someone has to look after and do things for kids when they can't themself. How do they learn certain things without being shown? I was a nursery nurse so actually when I was working, I was doing the same thing minus exercise for myself or a cuppa when I want for your information, not my kids, but lots of other peoples kids!

I ask people what they want and get it for them whilst pretending to be interested in small talk..

Help keep tiny people alive...

Wear a false smile, upload paper work on to a computer system, type on a keyboard and do lots of long winded processes that could be shorter but my manager will only do things her way...admin in the nhs

I Pinterest a lot, and make mood boards, and eat nice food.

Best job ever.

I’m currently teaching myself how to produce accounts

Boss grown arse men around, generally babysit them and shout. A lot

Read long notes about a bad thing someone might have done. Then try to think if anyone else has done it before and been caught. Sit in a room listening to various people talking and trying to work out if they're lying or not.

Well juney, I agree that the absorption of the things we do for love and life into the rhetoric of work should be resisted. I don't feel we all have to justify our existence by being good little workers. Nevertheless it's politically necessary sometimes to acknowledge that without the caring that (mostly) women do the wheels would fall off-of society, or capitalism if you like. So sometimes I call what I do 'work', e.g. when I want to participate in a basically lighthearted thread about how we spend our days. Other times I just call it 'my life'.

Hth

Someone get Juney a saucer of milk!

Support people through having babies through assisted conception and talk about sperm, sex and abstaining from ejaculation a lot

pretending to be busier than I actually am. Meetings with parents and carers. Skivingly reading MN. Occasionally I make a difference.

@coughingbean... snap!!!

I spend most of my day printing, copying laminating and cutting up resources that help little people talk and communicate better. I also play games and do activities with said little people.

I help people get better.

I comfort and reassure children.

I try to get support for vulnerable young people from a financially fucked up and increasingly dwindling range of services.

Run round and round in circles, then have an hour of children moaning they don't like it, then more running round in circles.