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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:
Fernticket · 07/06/2025 18:22

Redglitter · 07/06/2025 16:03

I tell Police officers where to go (and dont get arrested for doing so)

999 control room?

Fernticket · 07/06/2025 18:23

LandSharksAnonymous · 07/06/2025 16:13

I spend all my time thinking about war.

Armed Forces?

Hoardasauruskaren · 07/06/2025 18:23

I spend my working hours looking at the insides of people!

Westfacing · 07/06/2025 18:23

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 18:11

Right on both counts.

How exciting!

You're not at work right now, I hope!

Changingplace · 07/06/2025 18:25

I tell people what tv or radio they should watch/listen to.

Changingplace · 07/06/2025 18:26

Hoardasauruskaren · 07/06/2025 18:23

I spend my working hours looking at the insides of people!

Radiographer?

Heatherjayne1972 · 07/06/2025 18:26

I get up close and personal with upto 16 people every day. I try not to cause pain but sometimes I make them gag. They normally leave happy

woefulliving · 07/06/2025 18:27

I shoot people

Westfacing · 07/06/2025 18:27

Maverickess · 07/06/2025 18:14

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

So not an anesthetist then!

On a previous thread like this someone came on and said she gases people for a living!

StrawberryCheesecake8 · 07/06/2025 18:27

Half of my job is saying ‘That sounds risky,’ l and the other half is fixing it when someone ignores me.

thebiggestmugoftea · 07/06/2025 18:27

I make strangers dance

thebiggestmugoftea · 07/06/2025 18:27

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/06/2025 16:08

Mine gets a few "Well I couldn't do your job" comments .
But they are bloody grateful someone does it !

Carer?

thebiggestmugoftea · 07/06/2025 18:28

pimplebum · 07/06/2025 16:09

paper work paper work smelly boys and coffee

Teacher?

thebiggestmugoftea · 07/06/2025 18:28

Angrymum22 · 07/06/2025 16:10

Take a seat and open wide.

Dentist

LandSharksAnonymous · 07/06/2025 18:29

Fernticket · 07/06/2025 18:23

Armed Forces?

Foreign and defence policy (civil service). I ‘specialise’ on conflicts…

Hoardasauruskaren · 07/06/2025 18:30

Changingplace · 07/06/2025 18:26

Radiographer?

Yes!

Seawolves · 07/06/2025 18:30

woefulliving · 07/06/2025 18:27

I shoot people

Photographer?

DancingNotDrowning · 07/06/2025 18:33

Saying “absolutely fucking not” 38 times a day, in six beautiful drafted paragraphs

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:33

Hoardasauruskaren · 07/06/2025 18:23

I spend my working hours looking at the insides of people!

Radiologist?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:34

woefulliving · 07/06/2025 18:27

I shoot people

photographer?

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:36

Heatherjayne1972 · 07/06/2025 18:26

I get up close and personal with upto 16 people every day. I try not to cause pain but sometimes I make them gag. They normally leave happy

Physio?

DancingFerret · 07/06/2025 18:36

Westfacing · 07/06/2025 18:23

How exciting!

You're not at work right now, I hope!

No, not working now, but I shall be later on when most people are tucked up in bed. Shift work is part and parcel of the job.

redgingerbread · 07/06/2025 18:36

NaeRolls · 07/06/2025 18:11

Are you a teacher?

Me - I get paid for being an annoying pedant.

Copy-editor? (Me too, if so!)

Redglitter · 07/06/2025 18:37

Fernticket · 07/06/2025 18:22

999 control room?

Yes 😁

ByWiseAquaFinch · 07/06/2025 18:38

NaeRolls · 07/06/2025 18:11

Are you a teacher?

Me - I get paid for being an annoying pedant.

Proof reader?

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