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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:
blueshoes · 06/05/2023 22:03

NoroWorrier · 06/05/2023 21:56

I hear people’s personal and private information and see their most important documents.

Sometimes I make copies of it all. And often show/talk about them with other people.

PIP assessor? DWP? But maybe not because they don't read documents or look at evidence before turning down.

blueshoes · 06/05/2023 22:05

WonkyHare · 06/05/2023 21:56

I tell people they have forgotten something, and stand with a smile on my face while they shout at me and insult me.

Security guard at a supermarket (at the exit) or those supermarket staff who watch you scan your stuff at self service?

cushcosh · 06/05/2023 22:05

I stalk living people so I can find out what they know about other living people.

I also find dead people.

MamskiBell · 06/05/2023 22:10

WonkyFeelings · 05/05/2023 15:33

People pay for me to stab them.

Plebotomist?

StrandedStarfish · 06/05/2023 22:19

Post Coital worker

whataballbag · 06/05/2023 22:20

I listen to people trying to help other people, and decide whether they are doing it safely enough.

I also teach people to help people, help people to help people, and occasionally help the people myself.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 06/05/2023 22:31

StrandedStarfish · 06/05/2023 22:19

Post Coital worker

Midwife?

airdropittome · 06/05/2023 22:36

NoroWorrier · 06/05/2023 21:56

I hear people’s personal and private information and see their most important documents.

Sometimes I make copies of it all. And often show/talk about them with other people.

Traffic warden?

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 22:42

StinkerTroll · 06/05/2023 22:01

I encourage children to look at marked dead trees while hallucinating vividly.......

Librarian / English teacher 😆

Spirael · 06/05/2023 22:47

I repeatedly work myself out of a job to move many bits.

nancyglancy · 06/05/2023 22:48

BatildaB · 05/05/2023 15:30

I ask people what things are called

SLT?

MarriedInAHurricane · 06/05/2023 22:49

I push down on a plastic doll, repeatedly.

StinkerTroll · 06/05/2023 22:52

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 22:42

Librarian / English teacher 😆

Children's librarian 😁

OctopusComplex · 06/05/2023 22:52

@TheDogsMother - very nosey, for money - are you a PI/ detective?

TheDogsMother · 06/05/2023 22:54

OctopusComplex · 06/05/2023 22:52

@TheDogsMother - very nosey, for money - are you a PI/ detective?

Sadly not so interesting. A recruitment consultant 🤣

blessedarethequichemakers · 06/05/2023 23:00

I make important decisions, often based on something that hasn't happened yet.

ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun · 06/05/2023 23:12

Once a fortnight I give people a list of things to do.

Then every day for a fortnight I ask those people if they've done it yet.

At the end of the fortnight I ask them to show what they've done, then we all have a big chat about why they didn't do everything on the list.

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 06/05/2023 23:13

MarriedInAHurricane · 06/05/2023 22:49

I push down on a plastic doll, repeatedly.

First aid trainer :)

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 06/05/2023 23:14

ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun · 06/05/2023 23:12

Once a fortnight I give people a list of things to do.

Then every day for a fortnight I ask those people if they've done it yet.

At the end of the fortnight I ask them to show what they've done, then we all have a big chat about why they didn't do everything on the list.

Scrum master?

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 23:15

MarriedInAHurricane · 06/05/2023 22:49

I push down on a plastic doll, repeatedly.

First aid trainer lol

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 06/05/2023 23:15

blessedarethequichemakers · 06/05/2023 23:00

I make important decisions, often based on something that hasn't happened yet.

Trader?

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 23:16

I fry eggs and clean toilets

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 23:19

whataballbag · 06/05/2023 22:20

I listen to people trying to help other people, and decide whether they are doing it safely enough.

I also teach people to help people, help people to help people, and occasionally help the people myself.

Counsellor / supervisor

Teapotmonkey · 06/05/2023 23:20

cushcosh · 06/05/2023 22:05

I stalk living people so I can find out what they know about other living people.

I also find dead people.

Genealogist

cushcosh · 06/05/2023 23:36

@Teapotmonkey yes! I specialise in DNA genealogy