Jobs that you don't know anyone who do them

[BiscuitLover3679]

Inspired by other threads. Are there any jobs where you don't actually know anyone in real life, even a friend of a friend or someone you've heard of, who does it?

For example I don't know anyone who is a postman (apart from the ones I've had who come all lovely and cheery, drop the post and go).I have genuinely no idea what the job is really like or how people find it. Don't know anyone in my personal life who does it!

Anyone got anything else like that?

I don't know anyone who does heaps of jobs 😄.

I don't know any truck drivers, they could have had an amazing pay rise this year. However I can only imagine the conditions must be awful.

Bin man.

Train driver
Masseuse

I know actors, IT bods, and teachers. That's pretty much it!

I don't know any lawyers, mechanics, nuclear physicists, radiographers, social workers, waiters, bin men, embryologist, clothes shop assistants, horse artificial Inseminators, interior decorators, chiropodists, road sweepers, chefs, bankers, politicians, etc etc etc

I do know people who are carpenters, plumbers, artists, psychologists, teachers, scientists, nurses, doctors) (gp), vets and vet nurses, receptionists, cleaners, support workers, lorry drivers, labourers, scientists, bar staff, landlady's, hair dressers, etc etc etc

I don't understand the thread

My neighour is a postie (so is his son, gave us a delivery yesterday).

Yeah - probably most jobs to be honest . I do know a few post people though!

another Mumsnet thread designed to remind us all about the British obsession with class

There are so many jobs out there…of course there’ll be many that no one has any connections with.

@HopefulRose

another Mumsnet thread designed to remind us all about the British obsession with class

Ah! Makes sense now.

I don’t know any hairdressers.

I don’t know any piano tuners!

Literally hundreds! 🤣

I know two posties but I was thinking the other day, I don’t know a single nurse.

I don't know any bin men

I don't know any dolphin trainers.

I do know
A bagpiper (former Scots Guard)
A methodist minister
A butler in the buff.
An award winning children's author
A sewerage operative
A couple of actors/extras.
A window cleaner.

I think the husband of someone I went to school with is a postie.

I don’t know any anaesthetists, dog walkers or lighthouse keepers (is that still a job?)

I don’t know any flautists

The problem is that in many cases the jobs you don’t know anyone who does are jobs you just won’t have even heard of — I remember arriving at university from a background of mechanics, labourers, secretaries, childminders and lorry drivers etc and meeting not only people planning to become dentists, teachers and lawyers, but stuff I never even knew existed, like opera directors and museum curators.

DH cousin is a postman.
I know people with a wide range of jobs and some who despite them explaining in detail I have no idea what they actually do!

I don't know anyone who does domestic cleaning aside from people who have cleaned my house. I have been a cleaner in a pub myself (a job with a crew and it was fine, I quite enjoyed it), but never a domestic cleaner and I always wonder if they hate it, if it's lonely, if they hate me for being such a messy bastard etc... 😂

I don't understand this thread?
Surely there are lots of jobs that people won't know anyone in them

I feel like I have acquaintances in all sorts of jobs, until I’m looking for someone to sign a passport then I forget everyone I’ve ever met. I know lots of postpeople though. They seem to be married to each other a lot, and spent lots of time in the pub because they finish work so early.

Most jobs. Almost everyone I know is a teacher, a professor, a doctor, or works in an office in some capacity. The office workers, like me, all have very different careers, but in reality, our day to day existence is probably relatively similar compared to someone who works in construction or on a submarine. I have someone in my Facebook circle who works in a very different field and I do find the little glimpses into his career fascinating.