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Incognito job description (lighthearted)

294 replies

jacquec · 05/05/2023 15:14

I don't like to divulge my occupation openly and instead describe it in a, technically accurate, but unrelated sounding way. Whether you actually do this or not, I thought it'd be interesting to see how people would describe their job if they had to make it sound different, and whether we could guess what the real occupation was from said description.

Mine is that I work with candles.

OP posts:
ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:15

TheDogsMother · 05/05/2023 16:07

I'm very nosey about people. I then share that information with other people for money.

Journalist

ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:17

Shayisgreat · 05/05/2023 15:47

I read about problems in people's lives and tell other people how to help the people with the problems.

I input all of this into a computer so that when the people with the problems complain about the people who help them with the problems I get to explain why this happened.

I give the people who are helping the people with the problems timescales for tasks to help the people with the problems.

Feel like you are a family services team manager :L

ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:19

Danikm151 · 05/05/2023 17:07

I ask politely for money 🙂

Fundraiser?

ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:21

Teacher?

Chatillon · 07/05/2023 17:49

MarsDestroyerOfWorlds · 07/05/2023 15:34

I search for ways to bring railways to a standstill.

Another high class hooker?

Chatillon · 07/05/2023 17:51

AnnaZofia · 07/05/2023 15:30

Ha ha ha! Very, very far from the truth but a great guess!

You catalogue DNA samples from crime scenes so that evil perpetrators can be brought to justice one day.

SatsumaSplit · 07/05/2023 18:15

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/05/2023 16:42

Architect?

Not a million miles off, cartographer :)

Shayisgreat · 07/05/2023 18:57

ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:17

Feel like you are a family services team manager :L

Yep, social work team.

bighair32 · 07/05/2023 19:03

I help young people learn about moving other young people's bodies using their hands and sometimes equipment including things to take a deep breath, things that may make you fall over, things that are stretchy or heavy. I do this so that the young people can tell me why they have done this so when they are with other people who find it difficult to move their body they know what to do.

tailinthejam · 07/05/2023 19:29

blueshoes · 07/05/2023 14:08

Do you work in anti-moneylaundering compliance?

Far less exciting than that, and that's saying something.

No, I read between the lines on balance sheets and decide whether businesses are a good risk or not.

MarsDestroyerOfWorlds · 07/05/2023 19:53

@Chatillon Dammit. I’ve been sussed.

AlwaysFeedingBabies · 07/05/2023 21:15

ChimChimeny · 07/05/2023 16:17

Yes sandwich buyer 😋

I used to be a technical manager looking after food to go (and other areas) for a major supermarket!

DottyDry · 08/05/2023 09:58

@blueshoes yes radiographer 😁

BatildaB · 08/05/2023 11:08

ShanaRose · 07/05/2023 17:15

Language teacher?

Not exactly! Although that kind of works as another incognito description

HomeSweetHomeSweetHome · 08/05/2023 12:09

Nosy in others homes, look at boo boos. Occasionally go over the speed limit when being used as a taxi.

jacquec · 08/05/2023 12:37

HomeSweetHomeSweetHome · 08/05/2023 12:09

Nosy in others homes, look at boo boos. Occasionally go over the speed limit when being used as a taxi.

Got a PA number by any chance? 😉

OP posts:
AnnaZofia · 09/05/2023 09:01

Chatillon · 07/05/2023 17:51

You catalogue DNA samples from crime scenes so that evil perpetrators can be brought to justice one day.

It is to do with evidence but not in that way!

ElliePascoe · 09/05/2023 19:42

AnnaZofia · 07/05/2023 15:11

I preserve the past for the future.

Conservator?

AnnaZofia · 09/05/2023 22:25

ElliePascoe · 09/05/2023 19:42

Conservator?

So close! An allied profession. I'm an archivist.
'We collect and preserve historical records and make them available for research' is one way of describing what we do.

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