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Badly explain your job

429 replies

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:
Chrisinthemorning · 09/04/2020 18:03

Sticking my fingers in people’s mouths according to DS although I like @oralengineer’s version better.
No one will be doing either for a long time!

Pepperoniextracheese · 09/04/2020 18:03

People send me paper and a month later I send them money.

Undomesticgodde55 · 09/04/2020 18:06

I break speed limits, drive through red lights and make a lot of noise. Then I'll feed poorly people drugs and stab them with needles. Sometimes I also jump up and down on their chest and electrocute them.

Blibbyblobby · 09/04/2020 18:06

Blame focus for projects

thesedaysarescary · 09/04/2020 18:07

I spend my days arguing with self entitled consumers who don't want to follow any social distancing guidelines because they don't have to follows rules it's just the flu 🙄 spend the rest of my time biting my tongue and wishing I was on furlough.
Prior to this I loved my job!

SilentBob · 09/04/2020 18:10

Old job- I'll sell you things really, really quickly.

Now job- I'm basically the mom of several tables of different families who all want to eat something different and usually very specific, but all at the same time, if you don't mind.

bettybattenburg · 09/04/2020 18:11

Nope,not a politician or a counsellor. It was an apt description for a politician though.

steamedxmaspudding · 09/04/2020 18:12

I have unsupervised video conversations with children on the internet

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 09/04/2020 18:14

I shuffle paperwork and argue with people to stop my company selling things.

Sinuhe · 09/04/2020 18:14

Selling other people's rejected junk on Ebay...

Thighmageddon · 09/04/2020 18:19

I tell people what to do and then when they decide to do something else I tell them what to do again, then go off and get a coffee and drink it whilst muttering under my breath and smoking a fa, about people's inability to do their actual fucking job they're paid to do.

Rinse and repeat Grin

bettybattenburg · 09/04/2020 18:21

@steamedxmaspudding I think we do the same/related jobs.

Pickles89 · 09/04/2020 18:25

There are far too many to catch up with!

@PawPatrolMakesMeDrink

Nurse in oncology?

MalmseyWhine · 09/04/2020 18:26

I charge people to watch other people play make believe.

Pickles89 · 09/04/2020 18:27

@Jupiterscallisto

Police officer?

MooFeatures · 09/04/2020 18:27

I help little people out of small spaces

bringthegin · 09/04/2020 18:29

I read correct a lot of papers and create pretty pictures with red lines on them.

Pickles89 · 09/04/2020 18:29

@SilentBob Auctioneer? Now a furniture restorer?

Movinghouseatlast · 09/04/2020 18:29

I force people to do what they don't want to do but they usually enjoy it in the end. I always lie when at work.

Fedupandpoor · 09/04/2020 18:30

I jump around making animal shapes and noises, tell stories, play with toys, do crap crafts and charge parents money to let their kids join in.

PawPatrolMakesMeDrink · 09/04/2020 18:31

@Pickles89 almost! I’m a practice nurse, I give tonnes of baby immunisations.

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 09/04/2020 18:31

I help little people out of small spaces

Midwife? Obstetrician?

Pickles89 · 09/04/2020 18:31

@ScarletPower Journalist? Detective?

MooFeatures · 09/04/2020 18:33

@ChandlerIsTheBestFriend midwife 👍🏻

fascinated · 09/04/2020 18:33

Write about all the problems that nobody else ever thinks about cos they think “that will never happen”. Tell people things they don’t want to hear about things other people say they shouldn’t be doing, but then tell them ways to still do what they want to do anyway.