What does your job make you notice?

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I work in advertising so I always notice bad fonts, dodgy claims, poor punctuation, use of stock photos and all sorts of things that leave me steaming with annoyance while normal people all around seem to be able to walk past a crap sign without wincing.

Does your job make you notice things the normals don't see?

I notice holes in a roof, broken guttering, the need for a window frame repaint, shops that are being refurbished, extensions where the foundations have just been laid. I own a scaffolding company. Very dull.

DH is a painter and decorator so I'm well trained on spotting the shoddy workmanship on home makeover shows along with seeing crap cutting in, rubbish prep work and popped nails wherever I go

Other peoples patenting.
This is going to worded clumsily and I cant quite articulate what I'm trying to say but here goes;
I always think when I read about mum's beating theirselves up and feeling guilty over something on MN that I wish they would believe me when I say let go of the guilt, what you are upset about is important but not overly important in the big scheme of things.
I have worked with too many families where the kids are carers for their parents because they are too pissed or drugged up to look after them, kids that have been neglected or one child in a family is neglected and the other kids are treated like prince or kids that have been emotionally abused and it has resulted in self harm or in one case suicide of a teenager.
I live on a road where lots of parents go past to walk their kids to school. I see the same parents that engage with their kids and the same parents who always talk harshly or scolding their children for nothing in particular.
I know it's easy to judge and sure parents have bad days but you notice the ones that being shouted at or treated badly is normal. They have a look of being resigned to it and it's hard to see.

Blimey! X post with picklemepopcorn

People lying and believing noone will ever notice or suspect them of any wrongdoing. 😇

I wish there was an off button!!

I work in a jewellers, always find myself judging looking at peoples engagement rings when I'm out and about

Can take one look round the stock on shop shelves and be able to see immediately if their head office is having cashflow problems

I’m a school secretary at a boys prep school. I notice lots of things about my dds school wrt spelling mistakes, the misuse of words and the fact that I told my dds school office twice that she was doing horse riding and tennis club and got nine messages asking to contact the office even though I went in, phoned in and emailed. Drives me bonkers. They forgot to invite me to a piano recital one time too. No big deal, but I would never leave anyone out, as I’m perfect 🤷🏼‍♀️

I can spot a photoshopped picture a mile off...my critical eye has been picked up by my daughters too because they'll now point out the 'tell' on an image that shows it's been altered.

I'm creating a little mob of highly critical girls (my daughters and their friends) who don't believe a picture of anything that they haven't taken themselves or that doesn't have any 'tells' because I've shown them what I can do in just 5 minutes.

I'm quite happy that I've made cynics out of them, I'm hoping I've shown them the danger of just letting anyone have access to their imagery online too...but time will tell with that.

I notice that I and all of my colleagues and most people I know are in bullshit and meaningless jobs. Tapping away on computers, producing meaningless shite. I work in the public sector.

How many people use dodgy email addresses. I work in university admissions and you wouldn't believe how many people apply to professionally accredited degrees with emails like [email protected]

I am a housekeeper and I struggle to stay in hotels without critiquing the standards

I work with people suffering ptsd.
I notice that money doesn’t protect you from anything( domestic violence, addiction, loneliness).
I notice that against all odd it’s possible to heal, no matter how old the woulda are.

I notice how people walk and stand. I can often diagnose medical conditions that way.
I’m a HCP.

Voice, speech and swallowing problems. I'm a speech therapist and I have to diagnose your voice problem before I can listen to answer what you're saying.

I've done design so I notice fonts, typography and stock images too. And the very worst one - aspect ratios being wrong. It seems to happen a lot on people's TVs and school newsletters. Used to be computer monitors as well but I don't see it so much any more. I think because they are set up with one specific resolution now. But it drives me potty - why can people not tell when something is massively stretched??

I teach English as a foreign language now which means I can instantly tell if someone's errors are due to them being a non-native speaker or they are just bad at spelling/grammar. Sometimes I can pinpoint their native language or the language family too by the common errors.

Screens to keep kids quiet. Am a cm and am seeing kids under the age of 2 with their own iPads. And how kids can whizz around a touchscreen but not pull their pants up, put shoes on etc. Kids also noticing less in nature. A few years ago they would be excited by conkers etc but now they don’t hold their interest at all.

If you're in housekeeping and such, do you notice icky things in other hotels? I'm quite glad I don't notice that too much.

I used to work in an old people's home, and now I really notice when people talk to the elderly as if they were children. Drives me mad.

I used to deliver free newspapers and couldn't help but notice some of the filthy front doors and windows which could do with a wipe. Very trivial I know. My own door isn't pristine either.

I notice how the kind and considerate children always have the kind and considerate parents and how the rude and nasty children have the rude and nasty parents
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Colours and textures.
I work for a soft furnishings manufacturer.

Sheep conformation. Healthy sheep vs poorly sheep in the field.

Written grammatical mistakes (your / you're) - my eyes!!!

How often native English speakers use phrasal verbs (verb + preposition e.g. "take off") in spoken and written English

Consonant combinations that don't really make sense when you think about it e.g. -gh making an 'f' sound in "enough"

Can anyone guess what I do?

I started in addiction services and can still now spot a pharmacy that does methadone in an area, I also clock off street premises.

Nowadays I can tell the difference between a good care home and a rubbish one fairly easily.

An adult lifetime of reading people in challenging unsafe situations means I can spot a liar from ten paces and someone who is likely to kick off from further. A couple of times it's paid off when I've been able to usher my family away from an incident in town centres etc (thankfully e front lice in such volatile areas Any more but we haven't always been able to choose to live in leafy suburbia).

The one I feel means all the hard work paid off was when someone (deliberately keeping vague here for obvious reasons) showed me a black spot on their palm and I could help them in the moment. All the stress all the pressure and affect on my mental health (I did some really on the wire jobs that made me see the absolute worst in humanity) meant something in that moment.

The downside is after delivering specific programmes for a specific kind of sex offender I now no longer trust people with my DC...theres always a downside.