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Badly explain your job

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Greenandcabbagelooking · 09/04/2020 17:14

Because I think we all need a laugh at the moment! Inspired by a Twitter hashtag, explain your job (or an old one) and guess what other posters’ jobs were.

I use dangerous chemicals and fire around children.

OP posts:
Pickles89 · 10/04/2020 20:40

@SamsMumsCateracts

Hahaha, don't I know it! I'm a nanny (in theory!) Was once projectile vomited on by a 7 month old. It was like being hosed down by an erupting fire hydrant.

Craftycorvid · 10/04/2020 21:01

I’m paid to mess with people’s heads and keep their secrets.

In another ‘life’ I’ve been paid to take my clothes off. Grin

Wauden · 10/04/2020 23:00

@Tempertamtrum Old job, outside: looked at pictures, then walked around doing sums and asking people to do stuff
Estate agent?
Auctioneer?

Flapjackninja · 10/04/2020 23:05

Spend someone else's money on stuff I don't want.

Wauden · 10/04/2020 23:06

@stickwoman
Strap people in chairs inside a metal tube and throw food at them=
Do tell!Smile

Wauden · 10/04/2020 23:15

@borage13
I tell people building things how to stick to rules established by other people who build things and some people in wigs. Sometimes I help them argue with other people =
Building Control officer and expert witness?
Planning officer and expert witness?

Wauden · 10/04/2020 23:17

@stickwoman
Air hostess?

ArthurDentsSpaceTowel · 10/04/2020 23:18

I pick up the phone so that other staff don't have to. I smile and talk to people to stop them bothering busy staff with only-important-to-them chat. I open the doors if they have the right ticket and let them out if they have the right ticket.

I'm important, I am. GrinGrin

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 10/04/2020 23:18

Nash scum. Has doors down at 5.30 and nick them for exploiting human beings .

Kljnmw3459 · 10/04/2020 23:19

"I gather inaccurate data for a living. Thankfully nobody uses it."

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 10/04/2020 23:20

I'll repeat that without auto correct..

Bash down the doors of scum bags at 5:30am and nick then for exploiting people.

borage13 · 10/04/2020 23:28

@wauden more the legal side :) good call
Though

SisyphusDad · 11/04/2020 00:14

I write fiction with numbers and convince other people that they are facts.

InTheGardenDrinkingTea · 11/04/2020 09:02

DH. 'I get people to explain to me what they do so that I can make them obsolete'.

Business analyst?

Wauden · 11/04/2020 10:14

@Talcott2007
"I make rules. I check that other people follow the rules and if they don't do it right I might change the rules.
I might still change the rules even if they do it right too!"

Do you write legislation and/or regulations?
Are you a Lawyer?

Mysterian · 11/04/2020 10:16

People lend me their babies and I try not to kill them. or find suitable replacement

Bagadverts · 11/04/2020 14:16

@Craftycorvid counsellor? for the second life model?

DontGoIntoTheLongGrass · 11/04/2020 14:20

I go around telling people off for gathering in groups at the moment. People try stab me where I'm from. According to DD I'm a ninja and carry around a big stick too.

dyscalculicgal96 · 11/04/2020 14:34

@Don'tGoIntoTheLongGrass policeman?

dyscalculicgal96 · 11/04/2020 14:38

@Mysterian Pediatrician?

flowery · 11/04/2020 14:43

At the moment? I write authoritative-sounding guidance on things the government just invented.

Then I rewrite it every two days when the government change their mind, which they usually do on Friday nights, Saturday mornings or last thing at night on the Thursday before a frigging bank holiday weekend.

#bitter

clackymules · 11/04/2020 14:59

I tell idiots how much money to give to other idiots

Craftycorvid · 11/04/2020 14:59

Bagadverts. Guilty as charged on both counts Grin

Mysterian · 11/04/2020 15:01

@dyscalculicgal96 I'm a nursery nurse.

Bubbletrouble43 · 11/04/2020 15:07

I show people how to press particular planks down in a particular order and make it sound nice

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