to ask if you have any idea what your DP does at work?

[MrsSeymourButts]

God knows what mine gets up to all day. I have asked on occasion - I really have - but I get the urge to start smashing the crockery by the time he finishes the first sentence. I think it might involve a sophisticated way of counting toilet rolls.

AIBU to start making things up (weasel trainer, Beyonce's body double, etc.) if anyone asks me again what he does?

I know what he does but I stop listening when he tells me about it

YANBU.
I want to say it's something to do with tyres. And alignments. There was some sort of protractor he got out once. It was really awkward. I don't ask anymore.

Yes, absolutely. And he knows pretty well what I do. If he didn't take any interest in such a huge part of my life I'd wonder seriously about how he felt about me.

My partner is a sahd and I'm sure he turns off sometimes when I start talking about my day. But then sometimes I am tempted to ask what he has been up to all day...

Is he a weasel trainer, CMOT?

I'm guessing you mean this to be lighthearted, but it does rather come over as poor little woman can't understand what the big clever man does at work all day..

If you really can't grasp it, then just tell them his job title. Or alternatively talk about what you do.

DH and I have the same job (with different employers). I know pretty much exactly what he does at work all day.

I know what mine does. He tells me ALL about it.

I don't think he could say the same about me, however. My job is very dull, and I can't much be bothered talking about it.

Only vaguely.

In my defence it's a highly specialised job in a technical area so DP doesn't expect me to know!

My dh's job has something to do with nuts and bolts. Also gloves. I kind of know but when he starts talking in 'work speak' I do these faces

Yes. He works from our spare bedroom and I get to hear a blow by blow account of his day (I also work from home)

He works in shipping. I can name pretty much every port in the world. I can name every single one of his colleagues, their partners and their children. He would struggle to tell you which company I work for. I zone out a lot.

I know what he does all day and I'm genuinely interested in talking to him about it - but we're in the same industry, same overall job title, but vastly different companies so we bounce things off each other at night

I know what he does but I think he'd be hard pushed to describe what I do. My job is a bit specialised and hard to explain if you don't work in the nhs.

No idea, every now and again he attempts to explain it to me. But I don't understand.

DH is smarter than me in many ways (in other ways he is a total numpty).

Whatever it is he does, he must do it well. They pay him an awful lot!

We used to work together , computer stuff, so yes..

Yes

I've got a very good idea of what DH's job involves.

The exact day to day details vary - his job requires him to do a number of different regular tasks, and he won't do every one of those each day, so I can't say exactly what he's up to right now - but I know what kind of things he does over the week well enough to explain it to someone else.

I know what DH does as I used to do the same thing. I know his job is very stressful, he has a fuck-ton of responsibility and that he's very good at what he does. He's a lawyer.

I can be a little bit shit at listening to the minutiae of the day though. I have to try not to bumrush him to the end of sentences so I can give a gripping account of how me and the DC 'watched a pigeon limping and then bought cakes' (an actual recent day, and an indication of why I don't blog about my fascinating life).

Yep, he's a chef. And since he does all the cooking at home too, I know he's very good at it

He works from home and I work from home one day a week and am generally around, not working, another two days. I have a general idea but some of the computer stuff goes over my head. Same for him, he has a general idea what I do but there is too much law for him to follow completely.

No one understands what my DH does for a living, he's basically Chandler.

His job title is "planner", so I'm thinking he plans
He used to be a buyer, he bought things
He also had an job as a materials expediter so I'm thinking he expedited materials

Simples

DH works for a telecommunications company, his boss's speah at thier 25th anniversary dinner included lots of talk about nanoseconds and atomic clocks
They are currently working on unjamming GPS jammers.

This reminds me of Vanessa Feltz saying when her husband came home she'd say, "What've you been doing today?" and then turn the vacuum cleaner on.

Oh, she got divorced, didn't she?