If you could spend a week shadowing someone else's job....

[penguinwithasuitcase]

What job would you choose?

Weirdly sparked by the thread on ordering a whole trout –a few ex-fishmongers on there and I thought "ooh, I'd love to do that for a couple of days to learn the tricks"

I don't know if it'd be my first choice but it got me thinking –what job would you love a sneak peek into / to learn the basics of?

Ideally Chris Hemsworths masseuse but if I couldn't do that then a chef as I'm not a terribly imaginative cook

Absolutely not a fishmonger, something to do with trains, either a driver or signal box operator.

Chris Whitty or JVT

I’d like to see how they handle the media circus around their work. I’ve am a much lowlier government scientist and found my work under much media scrutiny a few years ago. Hated it. Was told my technical opinion was “politically inconvenient”.

The Prime Minister. I would want to read all the Top Secret stuff & find out what’s really going on.

Obviously I would ask Sir Humphrey about this stuff, not Boris. He is notoriously lazy and he doesn’t read his briefings so he wouldn’t have a clue.

The next astronaut going on a mission.

Or Elon Musk. Must be interesting following him around.

@AfternoonToffee

Absolutely not a fishmonger, something to do with trains, either a driver or signal box operator.

That does sound like fun! Would you pick a particular route? Trans-Siberian railway, perhaps?!

@Christinayangtwistedsister

Ideally Chris Hemsworths masseuse but if I couldn't do that then a chef as I'm not a terribly imaginative cook

Jason Mamoa for me 😁

I'd love to shadow someone like Boris Johnson, I just have to know if my assumption that he basically prats around saying nothing of any worth, flitting in and out of meetings as he wants and eating/drinking expensive things paid for by someone else, is an accurate representation of his job.

Zoo keeper hand rearing lion or tiger Cubs

Chris Witty and JVT are a good shout. Who would have ever predicted they would have been so famous a couple of years ago. I reckon JVT secretly loves the limelight!

Criminal lawyer, me in another life!

Zookeeper/Wildlife conservationist

999 call handler.

The Queen or a Forensic Scientist

@AnonymousCheerleader

999 call handler.

Wow - yes, that'd be fascinating. Tough, but fascinating.

• A brain surgeon
• Someone who designs complicated things e.g. bridges
• Air traffic controller

Theme park planner - the logistics and the psychology behind influencing customers' behaviours - eg driving them to quieter areas of the park, keeping them in queues etc. Always weirdly fascinated me.

Archaeologist hands down. Would absolutely love to be one (I have a very different job!!)

I did shadow my MP as work experience. It was excellent!

I only suggested it as I cba to actually go work anywhere. Plus na change!

I’d love to see what the day to day life of the Queen is like.

Forensic scientists! I would love to go to a crime scene.

I’d like to shadow an upholsterer to see if it’s a realistic second career option for me (currently a nurse).

Have daydreams of running my own little independent upholstery business and coming up with these gorgeous creations giving peoples old furniture a second lease of life in the most vivid colours and patterns of velvet and shot taffeta. Headboards and occasional chairs, curtains, entire three piece suites, etc.

Wildlife photographer working with David Attenborough.

I do also love the suggestion above about theme park planner though. I used to want to be a town planner after playing a lot of simcity but after some work experience in the local planning office came to realise it was a lot more boring than the computer game.

Gold mining -like in the programme Gold Rush. Just watching a person going out as self employed and asking his friends to leave their jobs and go working with him for the season.

I have a boring desk job with long hours and would love to get an opportunity like that. I'd love to work outdoors.

Estate agent. I want to know how much of the job involves the bits I like (poking around houses, handling negotiations).