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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:
sunshineonasunnyday · 07/06/2025 22:58

I’m the translator between chaos and clarity. I juggle schools, health professionals, and families—making sure every child’s future is more than just a ticked box.

OneZingyPeachPoster · 07/06/2025 23:01

TinDogTavern · 07/06/2025 16:19

I can find you an hour with him Tuesday or 45 minutes Wednesday. Does he know what it’s about?

I think we do the same job. Also ‘I’m afraid he’s out of the office today’ when he absolutely isn’t.

forcedgeneric · 07/06/2025 23:10

SauvignonBlanche · 07/06/2025 17:48

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

Infection control nurse?

Daisy54 · 07/06/2025 23:12

HollywoodTease · 07/06/2025 21:24

Pilates instructor?

Yes

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/06/2025 23:18

I have conversations with people who don't exist.

Gottoloveatakeaway · 07/06/2025 23:21

Daisy54 · 07/06/2025 19:47

I train clients on a bed with a moving carriage and/or on a mat on the floor.

Pilates Instructor?

TinDogTavern · 07/06/2025 23:43

OneZingyPeachPoster · 07/06/2025 23:01

I think we do the same job. Also ‘I’m afraid he’s out of the office today’ when he absolutely isn’t.

Oh we are SO in the same job.

“I’m afraid that won’t be possible” means No No Nopity No.

Bandofsisters · 08/06/2025 00:09

21 sound, 22 distal comp, 23 mesial comp, 24 missing, 25 o, 26 sound, 27 MOD, 28 missing, 38 PE, 37 MO, 36 O…

bashual · 08/06/2025 00:18

I find dead people.

HotMess21 · 08/06/2025 01:33

WorriedRelative · 07/06/2025 16:15

I record my whole working life in six minute units

I haven’t RTFT - corporate lawyer?

NaeRolls · 08/06/2025 08:44

redgingerbread · 07/06/2025 18:36

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

Yes!

HelenWheels · 08/06/2025 08:45

I am sorry I cannot tell you how long the waiting list is

Blushingm · 08/06/2025 13:50

PluckyBamboo · 07/06/2025 22:29

Have you tried logging off and on again? No? Well do that then....

IT support?

Blushingm · 08/06/2025 13:51

sunshineonasunnyday · 07/06/2025 22:58

I’m the translator between chaos and clarity. I juggle schools, health professionals, and families—making sure every child’s future is more than just a ticked box.

Social worker?

Nextdoormat · 08/06/2025 13:52

9/10=90%=0.9

BeMintFatball · 08/06/2025 14:17

@Karatema you are an insurance broker

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 08/06/2025 14:32

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/06/2025 23:18

I have conversations with people who don't exist.

Actor?

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 08/06/2025 14:34

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 08/06/2025 14:32

Actor?

No....

reesewithoutaspoon · 08/06/2025 14:36

I give powerful addictive and potentially hallucinogenic drugs to children

BlackeyedSusan · 08/06/2025 14:41

Drive a lot
Answer the phone a lot.(Not at the same time)
Shop a lot.
Stay up late, get up early,
Negotiation, persuasion.
Take a nap in the middle of the day.

Recently I posted my shit in a post box...but that's not part of the job. Just thought it sounds funny!

BlackeyedSusan · 08/06/2025 14:45

NaeRolls · 07/06/2025 18:11

Are you a teacher?

Me - I get paid for being an annoying pedant.

Editor or proof reader?

BlackeyedSusan · 08/06/2025 14:47

Hoardasauruskaren · 07/06/2025 18:23

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

X ray technician?

BlackeyedSusan · 08/06/2025 14:49

Changingplace · 07/06/2025 18:25

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

Continuity announcer?

Welshlady60 · 08/06/2025 14:58

woefulliving · 07/06/2025 18:27

I shoot people

Photographer?

Lucienandjean · 08/06/2025 15:20

“Please stop stroking my leg, Joshua.”