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Tell me what your job is without telling me what your job is!

228 replies

PolarQueen · 07/06/2025 16:02

I'll go first:

I just told a grown man who was running in the park to do his shoelaces up!

OP posts:
TwoBakedOnes · 07/06/2025 17:56

I cure back pain with amazing London classes while being 250 miles away.

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 17:58

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 17:56

No, much more mundane than that

Are you a pharmacist?

BobbyBiscuits · 07/06/2025 17:59

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 17:43

I was thinking OP might be a personal trainer.

Ah yeah, that's true! Or a film director for an action scene with an actor who needs glasses?!

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 17:59

I tell Speedbird (and others) where to go.

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:00

I stick things on people and insert things into people

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:01

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 17:59

I tell Speedbird (and others) where to go.

Air traffic controller? (Speed bird is British airways isn’t it?)

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:02

SauvignonBlanche · 07/06/2025 17:48

“Can you take that watch off please? This is a bare below the elbows area.”

Nurse matron?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:05

I'm doing it right here.

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:08

Angrymum22 · 07/06/2025 16:10

Take a seat and open wide.

Dentist, hygienist?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:08

CyclingAddict · 07/06/2025 16:13

sex offenders
wife beaters
drug addicts

Defence lawyer?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:09

WorriedRelative · 07/06/2025 16:15

I record my whole working life in six minute units

Accountant or lawyer?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:11

Teacupover5 · 07/06/2025 16:26

what are the implications for your business if the machine goes down

McDonald's ice cream machine fixer?

NaeRolls · 07/06/2025 18:11

Are you a teacher?

Me - I get paid for being an annoying pedant.

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 18:11

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:01

Air traffic controller? (Speed bird is British airways isn’t it?)

Right on both counts.

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 18:14

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 17:58

Are you a pharmacist?

Still much more mundane - you don't need any qualifications at all to do what I do!

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:15

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 18:11

Right on both counts.

I’m always in awe of atc

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 18:15

Blushingm · 07/06/2025 18:00

I stick things on people and insert things into people

Acupuncturist?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:16

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 17:55

Drugging more people, well into the night 🤣

Bar staff?

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 18:17

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:16

Bar staff?

Yup!

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 18:18

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 18:14

Still much more mundane - you don't need any qualifications at all to do what I do!

Ah - I think @ByWiseAquaFinch has cracked it - bar staff!

Windinmyhair · 07/06/2025 18:18

Simonjt · 07/06/2025 16:24

I predict when people will die, and from a financial point of view prefer it when people die.

Actuary!

TiredAH · 07/06/2025 18:18

People hate me because they think I keep appointments in my pockets and I don’t want to give them one, just out of spite.

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 18:19

TiredAH · 07/06/2025 18:18

People hate me because they think I keep appointments in my pockets and I don’t want to give them one, just out of spite.

GP receptionist?

Twoshoesnewshoes · 07/06/2025 18:20

I apparently support FBI agents, undercover police, the Queen, a fox, and lots of people who like singing and SHOUTING.
they are all very lovely.
They usually cease the above after a few months and leave.

TiredAH · 07/06/2025 18:22

ShineOnYouCrazyEmerald · 07/06/2025 18:19

GP receptionist?

Yep. I came across nasty admin staff before, but my poor team really feel in their souls when we need to inform that nothing else is available for the day…we’re just following absurd rules most of the time😢

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