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?

'My husband earns more money than yours.'

And meanwhile I'm little woman who sits at home doing not a lot, and not really understanding what my big powerful man does for a living.

I also sometimes spot him on the news which amuses the DC's! Take it he's on one of those most-wanted lists, eh WildFlowers?

Mine is a professor, though as long before I met him I failed the required freshman class in the topic, the details of what he professes all day are vague to me. It is very math filled.

Treacleturkey, sorry you feel so insecure. It's never too late to change things for yourself.

Despite the title not containing 'light hearted', it doesn't mean we aren't skilled, trained and in empowered jobs ourselves.

My DP is a postman and I hear all about his woes regarding the management, the holiday rota, complaints from people not receiving mail even though he's not usually on that round so it was the other postie's fault... the list is endless.

He knows that I do admin in a university but I doubt he could tell you the department!

Treacle - not knowing about their jobs doesn't make them more special or make women any less empowered you know.

Treacle I imagine a lot of the women on here who don't know what their husbands do have busy fulfilling careers themselves. And those that don't, it doesn't mean they are helpless, ignorant housewives sitting at home ironing their shirts.
Knowing what your partner does for a living doesn't make you a better person. Some people just aren't interested or have better things to do. I know what DH does, I've done a similar job. That doesn't make superior to people who aren't in that situation.

Six Sigma is fundamentally about Process Improvement and the tools and methods to achieve that. It's mainly used in Manufacturing/Engineering, but applies across a range of industries.

Yes, he's a gas engineer

There's something utterly fascinating about the assumptions of a tiny number of posters on here.

It is insanely telling of your own beliefs and opinions if you see the statement "I don't fully understand my DH's job" and immediately assume that is because there is a poor little wife is at home who thinks she's too silly to understand her husband's big powerful job.

Rather than just assuming that a person might do an unusual or highly skilled job.

But I sincerely doubt the posters who think that will acknowledge that...

People glaze before I finish his job description. He's basically a know-it-all in engineering which can sadly rub off at home. In positive news, he's good at DIY.

I might not understand his job, but I translated his awful literacy skills into some kind of functional English so that other geeks could proof read his PhD.

He understands what I do, but he wouldn't survive a week in my without commiting assault.

Six sigma sounds very tedious. I hope it pays well

I used to work with my exH and sadly I knew exactly what he did. Towards the end of our very special time together it was to sit in the front of the lorry, smoking, drinking beer and asking me how long it was going to take me to finish the work. What a catch

I agree that it's weird that some posters think this is somehow a dig at women.

Up until his most recent job I would have struggled to tell people what my husband did for a job but i could talk about where he worked because the company was really cool. But I don't think he would be able to tell anyone what I did, my company is pretty boring and i have one of those jobs that no one understands unless they do it, but I like and I'm good at it. Most of my friends work in 'arts/media' jobs so no one really understands my corporate life!

But I do know all about my husband's colleagues, his boss, his team, their dogs, their partners, what they have for lunch. Which is far more interesting than what he actually gets paid for.

Six sigma sounds very tedious. I hope it pays well i fully agree with you, and the amount he rants i can not see how he claims to enjoy it.

from my persepective it pays well, from your's maybe not :)

I am better educated than DP. I have a job that requires more qualifications than his did. But when he worked in a funny finance/trading job, I couldn't understand a word of it.

But perhaps that was just the "womanly" side of me not getting it

i call it time and motion to my older relatives, they think he stands around with a stop watch timing people, like they did in the factories (see the film "I'm alright jack" for an example of what my family think he does).

Sorry i post so many small posts, that is just how I think.

I know his job title - he is a Management Accountant. I know that things have to "tally". That's pretty much it.

OH sets and fixes machines. This includes robots (that he's not keen on) and he calls Brian

So there is usually a little conversation as to whether Brian is behaving, quite often he gets upset and recently he amputated his arm. Luckily no one else hears these convo's

Its 'Brian' that gets upset and amputated his arm...OH doesn't go round bashing the robots...yet

I know DH's job title & I know vaguely what he does. BUT, he works short contracts (anything from a day to 6 months) & his job title can change with each contract, as can what he does and, quite often, he is not allowed to talk about what he's done until the finished product is released to the public, often months later.

Quite a few years ago DH had to do a lot of work with a client who was a six sigma something or other and he was a pompous twat; the two things were probably not connected but I think of him whenever I hear it. This guy was also responsible for the development of something that millions of people use every day that is very irritating when it doesn't function properly, and even after about 10 years DH and I still laugh about this guy and his six sigma malfunctioning plastic film product that shouldn't be identified for various reasons.

Computers. Stuff with servers and computers.

surprisedjersey my OH does exactly the same. Well, there's always bits of computers laying around the house and he's constantly wittering on about the temperature in the server rooms so I assume it's an identical role.

But then he thinks I just yell 'push' at women all day and cudde babies so we understand as much as each other about what we do.

*cuddle