"Get yourself a proper job"

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What does that statement mean?

I am a specialist Nursery Nurse, looking after children with complex health needs and children who are ventilated in their homes so the parents/carers can get a break, We do overnight care so the family can sleep knowing that someone is watching over their child and we do day cares so the parents can spend time with family/siblings that might otherwise not be possible (especially as some of our children do not tolerate travel well which makes even the most basic of shop trips almost impossible).

AIBU to think this IS a "proper job"? The person who said this to me works in the IT industry and earns four times what I do annually and is of the opinion that salary makes their work "proper".

That's rubbish OP.
Bet you get asked if "this is all you do all day" as well ☹️

You do a great job that many can't.

"Ask if you can 'shadow' them at their work for a day and offer the same in return. Bet they decline your offer."

That's a useful riposte. Will remember that.
(And, even better, would provide them with a nice, fat, reality check if they did end up accepting!).

Your reletive is a silly arse but I'm guessing you knew that all along.

Maybe tell them you've applied to become a member of the royal family or a reality to star.

My friend works in a call center cold calling,selling mortgages.

She earns very good money as they have a commision rates and lots of people want cheaper mortgages.

Over the last year she has earned just over 50k she said some earn more .Shes at a very small center only 5 of them and its not one that scams or are pushy they just offer to see if they can get you a better rate etc .

She asks anyone who tell her to get a proper job .how much they earn that soon shuts them up when she tell them her salary.

She been offered management role but turns them down as she earns more selling than managing (ovs sales dependant)

But since she started she always made sales

Your job is a very important role in the world dont let some jumped up it twit tell you anydiffrent

When was the last time he showed some compassion.

In this day and age it is very simple to learn It. best watch himself when todays genoration are ready for work .
Care compassion and common decency are not things tou can learn so hes fucked

I have a friend who does this sort of work - she is there with the ventilated childrne overnight or at school during the day. She is doing such a valuable job, keeping these children out of hospital and in their own homes and with a much better quality of life.

It's most definitely a proper job.

The comment made me laugh really, it was a family member but I haven't managed to change their mind on the value of all jobs, be it a top surgeon or a street cleaner. Every job is a proper job that has an important role in society.

Hear, hear!!! My dear old dad used to tell us 'there's dignity in any job' and he was right. Everyone deserves to be respected and to take pride in their work whether they're a ditch-digger or a neurosurgeon.

We have a friend who has a 'glamourous' job. DH and I worked in Civil Service. This friend often made comments about her work being so much more 'exciting' and 'status' than ours. Sure, sweetie. But guess who was able to retire in their mid-50s and are now living a life of leisure and travel and who is now complaining that she'll 'be working until she dies because she can't afford to retire'.

People who criticize other people's jobs need to think twice before they speak.

Oh, and OP, thank you so much for your compassion and your expertise. You (and all in caring professions) belong on pedestals.

marilyn don't worry my comment on vocations wasnt aimed at you but at the echelons that determine funding and pay for carers etc (fed up of hearing that term being misused recently)

You do a brilliant job that person is an arsehole and MUST be told so in no uncertain terms. Tell them to shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Tell them you are saving the world one child a time.
What are they doing? Printing money that's helping them become an even bigger arsehole than they are?

Are you sure they didn't mean 'regular job'
Whatever, I hope they're no one important to you. You do an amazing job.

If they say it again, just giggle and say, "What, like plugging stuff in and telling people to turn it off and on again?"

Nurses, teachers and carers are all massively underpaid and undervalued by society.

Well he sounds nice

They are a twat.

That's all that needs to be said