To think that these people have got it all wrong!

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Two ppl today!!
Person 1 on Facebook: oh I am just so happy to have started my new teaching job!#officiallyateacher

Me (to myself) eeehhhh... you are not a teacher you are a teaching assistant (not putting down TA’s (as I know they are a godsend) but... there is a difference between teacher training and TA training 🤔

Person 2: in the supermarket, I bumped into an old friend. Having a catch up and she tells me her daughter is in college, I say fantastic etc what is she studying? Answer: Law, ooh fantastic etc etc then she says “ I know just think in 3 and a half years (she’s half way through 1st year) she will be a solicitor!! Me (to myself) eeeehhh NO in 3 and a half years she will have a law degree 🤦‍♀️

AIBU to think these ladies have got it all wrong!!??

I wonder if we have the same person on Facebook as I saw something similar today, a TA basically making out they are a teacher!

Someone I know's mother goes round telling everyone her daughter is an estate agent - she's a receptionist in an estate agent's.

This is why I don't trust MNetters when they start this posts with "Teacher/Doctor/Solicitor/Whatever here".

I take their posts in exactly the same way I'd take anyone else's.

"Someone I know's mother goes round telling everyone her daughter is an estate agent - she's a receptionist in an estate agent's."

Desperate times when you're bragging about being an estate agent.. 😂

*their posts

I know someone who does cover in school who calls herself a teacher. Although technically she might stand in front of the classroom, she just reads out information the actual teacher has left.

I can see why someone might say they'll be a trainee solicitor after their law degree (if they can get a traineeship ).
Baffled as to why a teaching assistant would think they're a teacher though! Did no one point that out to her?

My rather snooty neighbour was telling me how her daughter was at Oxford - I asked what college and she said “well Oxford Brookes actually”.

Nothing wrong with Oxford Brookes but don’t pass it off as one of the world’s top universities!

In that case I’m a movie producer. I film shit and put it on social media

I know... I have a nice. She is studying music... ever so talented! NOT. It's an college course for re - sitting her GCSE.
I just smile and think whatever.
Some just need to be bigger and better than the rest of us.

Someone I know claims to have been a solicitor but I suspect it was more working in a solicitor's office. They only did it once or twice and I don't want to bring it up again as they don't offer advice.

I’m also studying Criminology (reading a Stephen King book about a killer)

My SIL says she's a teacher. She's not, she's a TA. I have no idea why she does this.

She also thinks she knows everything about the law and loves to give legal 'advice', because she worked as a receptionist in a solicitors office for a while.

We don't get on.

MIL's fella tells everyone his son in law is a busy jobbing actor. When we met the bloke we asked him what he'd done recently. Turns out he's actually in a local am dram group - mainly backstage.

Meh don't see the issue, at my DC's school (primary) the TA's spend all their time teaching. They don't have to do lesson planning, admin or parents evening etc of course but I can see why they'd say they're teachers.

Of course a law degree doesn't make you a lawyer and many just use it as a degree and go into a completely different field afterwards but it's just her mum being a bit ott so it wouldn't bother me.

When people who work at bookies, i.e. turf accountants, are described as accountants by their DMs

@Slipperboots you see I will argue that one I am a teacher and I do cover (currently covering a long term illness cover) I am still a qualified teacher. I have qualified status.

I changed a wheel once. Does that make me a mechanic by their logic? toddles off to update CV

Of course. She isn’t though. She came in with zero experience and put on FB that she was now a teacher.

I'm a medically trained doctor....well I have a first aid certificate anyway .

The admin assistant in my office (solicitors) tried to pass himself off as a solicitor in the pub once to a girl he was chatting up. He was sadly rumbled a few days later due to the fact that the girl in question was the daughter of a Sheriff who happened to be a good pal of one of the senior partners in my firm. Admin assistant ended up with a bit of egg on his face (and a lecture about passing himself off as a lawyer).

I really need to update my CV...i'm like Mrs Rabbit out of Peppa Pig by these standards 😁

This kind of thing is quite common! Have come across a few people implying they are a lawyer when they simply work at a law firm. Also, lots of people call themselves an “engineer” when they are not. If I was an engineer that would really bug me.

Its a situation where I would just grit my teeth and let them be proud, not that it isnt something to be proud of but obviously its not the same.

Through uni two of my closest friends studied law and pyschology and used to talk about how they are going to be balling when they are pyschologists and solicitors when they finish Uni. 4 years later, ones admin and one is a support worker. Granted they still have plenty of time to climb the career ladder, but they both openly discuss how disillusioned they had been.

My nephew was going out with a nutritionist. Except she was on a two year Access course (because she had hardly any GCSEs) and her plan was to then go to university to study nutrition.

My mother constantly tells me how amazing my cousin's job as an 'Educational Psychologist' is and how it just goes to show you can do well with not so great GCSE results... That's because she works for a company that does arts and crafts activities in schools! Not quite the same thing and not quite the same qualifications required! Not exactly the same salary either. I keep pointing out my friend is an actual Ed. Psych. and I rather suspect my aunt slightly exaggerates when describing her daughter's career achievements, but my mother insists on repeating the Ed Psych thing every time we speak.