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You’re job in a nutshell....

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MaidenMotherCrone · 26/11/2018 09:15

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 😁

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Fredathetortoise · 27/11/2018 09:05

I sit in the dark telling people what to do

LarkDescending · 27/11/2018 09:06

Goldenbug was it that obvious? Smile

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH · 27/11/2018 09:06

I photograph people on the best days of their lives and then spend weeks eating biscuits in my pjs making them look pretty.

ChiaraRimini · 27/11/2018 09:08

I often think my job title should be "email responder"

Mildmanneredmum · 27/11/2018 09:17

I tell people what they can and can't do, then tick them off when they do it anyway.

Doodlebug5 · 27/11/2018 09:20

I price aeroplanes

joystir59 · 27/11/2018 09:34

Spend a lot of time thinking about something and looking at images and reading stuff on Google. Make sketches. Think more. Google more. Make more sketches. Decide to do several different things because I'm getting so agitated about original thing. Day dream about all the different things whilst walking dog. Often get out of bed very early and go into a special room to draw think and day dream. Am quite unpleasant to live with needs someone similar to put up with me. Eventually one morning everything becomes clear and I spend about half an hour drawing The Thing and emerge with beaming smile saying 'i think I am getting somewhere'. Then agonise about materials, colours and spend innumerable hours cutting things into small pieces and placing them together to make The Thing. Also spend part of my week showing other people how to make Things.
Mosaic artist and tutor.

pumpkinpie01 · 27/11/2018 09:42

Constantly chasing people for information and checking big companies are doing their job properly, persistently infuriating !

Slowtrain2dawn · 27/11/2018 09:43

I listen to women who think they're in the wrong and it's all their fault and I try to convince them otherwise. I tell all the other services that should be helping the women to step up. I get a lot of hugs, make a lot of tea and coffee and get to eat cake. We laugh a lot, scheme a lot and make stuff too. I carry women's stories, I build hope and I watch them raise each other up and blossom. Sometimes I'm so angry and the images wake me up at night. Sometimes I can't believe my luck and occasionally I wish I did anything but this.
I have to convert everything I do into numbers so people give us money to carry on doing it.

MaidenMotherCrone · 27/11/2018 11:50

Just reading the replies before I go back and look closely at things for 10 hours and it seems the word NUTSHELL was missed by someGrin
To the pp who asked was I an Audio Editor sadly I’m not........ listening to Audio books isn’t part of the job description, just how I block out my colleagues Wink

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Kismetjayn · 27/11/2018 12:09

DH fishes dead things out of damp places then checks how hot wet things are.
Don't ask his job title. You'll never use public facilities again.

Pompom42 · 27/11/2018 12:12

Trying to get everyone's attention, answering bizarre questions all day, trying not to get snotted on, nearly always go home with a banging headache

Kismetjayn · 27/11/2018 12:18

DB also interesting, pretends he knows how fast small things can go.

I am boring all day.

thecatneuterer · 27/11/2018 12:20

Mine is quite varied but frequently involves hanging round the bins of particularly unpleasant blocks of flats late at night, often for hours, holding a piece of sting (oh and I don't get paid for it) Grin

thecatneuterer · 27/11/2018 12:20

ffs string, not sting

FruitCider · 27/11/2018 12:34

I make people drink green liquid in front of an audience then force them to let me shine a light in their mouth afterwards. If they don't comply I ban them from having more green liquid.

I crawl around after people trying to put their clothes on them when they are hallucinating and unable to do this themselves. When people are unable to get themselves dressed due to hallucinations it results in their TV being removed by men dressed in black and white.

I run towards fires 🔥 with the fire brigade and men in black and white. I cut peoples clothes off them and dry them with a towel. After fires the persons TV is usually removed by people in black and white.

whiteonesugar · 27/11/2018 12:36

Getting moaned at about people being too hot or cold and trying to herd cats / maintenance engineers.

notpushyinterested · 27/11/2018 12:37

Fruit cider ....wtf???

Fashionista101 · 27/11/2018 12:51

Basically a professional delegater who is currently in bed with a laptop, Netflix and hot choc. Pure chiller tbf BlushSmile

froufroufoxes · 27/11/2018 13:01

I write emails. And sometimes I write things in a document and send the document as an attachment to an email.

Occasionally I get to go out and meet people and then I come back and write an email about what we've discussed.
I think this could describe many people's jobs.

whereiscaroline · 27/11/2018 13:18

Write minutes for meetings (which haven't actually happened) about boring things. Help overpaid people to sell their shares so they can have even more money. Update databases about all the companies our employing company own. Occasionally spend a lot of time organising a big annual meeting that only about six people will come to.

PipGoesPop · 27/11/2018 13:23

I want your job OP sounds perfect. Do tell.

Inthetropics · 27/11/2018 13:23

I listen to a lot of people telling me about their personal lives.

Inthetropics · 27/11/2018 13:27

Oh, and i also eat cake, have juice and assorted food treats once a week with a bunch of people that talk to each other on a circle. Sometimes we bring our clutter from home and exchange it for someone else's clutter.

FruitCider · 27/11/2018 13:42

Fruit cider ....wtf???

If you search my name you'll figure out what I do and it will make complete sense at that point.