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!!??

Other health care titles are also protected - for example, registered dietitian, licensed social worker and licensed clinical social worker, etc.

I’m an admin assistant, with an interest in finance (and I am actually involved in purchase order, raising payments, reconciliation and petty cash as well as matching and processing of invoices)

I will be studying AAT level 2 in September. I’m not an accountant (yet)

I was in a meeting recently where we did a round the table of introductions, as a fair few of us didn't know one another. When we got to the marketing guy he introduced himself as a "true marketer" and having "studied marketing at Oxford".

After the meeting I made a few enquiries and established that the degree was, in fact, from Oxford Brookes. Which is fine, but we all know it is not part of the prestigious Oxford university. He only said "Oxford" to make himself sound better. I knew he was a bullshitter, this simply confirmed I was right all along.

SIL is a part time TA and lunch time supervisor. DB refers to her as a teacher and tells others this is what she is and she does not correct him.

I am a carer, and one thing we were taught was, we are not nurses, which I repeat to myself, and to clients occasionally!

Solicitor is a protected job title, criminal offence to pass yourself off as one if not on the roll.
I notice it more from people with few qualifications or understanding of University/professions. Mil used to say when I was in teaching (she was a ta for a brief time) it used to grate as my mum used to be a 30 years plus fully qualified teacher.
It’s same with A levels - bragging about dc or grandchild studying criminology or law etc not realising traditional subjects carry more weight to get on at a top tier university and in turn a chance of a traineeship.

Reminds me of my dad who used to work in the music industry.
Selling records at Debenhams!

@ShortandSweet96 that’s awful! I was a dental nurse back in the day it’s a bloody hard job! Mixing all those pastes and alginate there’s a Definite knack to it! The thought of mixing up the dental X-rays after they’d been processed ( or dropping one in the dark box) still haunt me to this day! Cheeky bastards

I had an interview once when the man interviewing me said the lies on my cv were outrageous. Two of his questions were: What did you really do on the year you claimed you worked programming a satellite (programmed a satellite) and, a masters in software engineering? Girls don't do that, so what was it really? Secretary school? Typing? (Its a masters in software engineering).

I didn't get the job.

I asked why.

Apparently I'm a pathological liar...

I had a nursing assistant (who I've no issue with) insist to me she was a real nurse and it was disgusting the things she was being expected to do. Not feeling well I ended up asking adr who came to see me why a fully qualified nurse was wearing the wrong uniform and badge. Turned out she told everyone she was an actual nurse and to say the dr wasn't impressed would be an understatement - despite being in a office I could hear him tearing into her for continuing to lie to patients and she'd be gone if she kept doing it.

I'm a geneticist- well I grew 2 babies. 😉🤣

@Lymphy it's more stressful than people think. I did have much to do with processing xrays as were a paperless practice so everything is digital. But the thought of buggering up a OPT and giving someone a dose of radiation for nothing always makes my stomach churn!

I thought in the The UK “lawyer” was just a catch-all term for paralegals, solicitors, barristers etc?

This is technically true - the term ‘lawyer’ is a generic one and can be used by anyone practicing law. This technically includes paralegals.

HOWEVER - a paralegal calling themselves a lawyer would be on shaky ground because what they absolutely aren’t allowed to do is give the impression that they are a qualified and practicing lawyer or barrister. And because most people understand the word ‘lawyer’ to mean a qualified professional, a paralegal calling themselves a lawyer would be likely to mislead unless they clearly specified that they weren’t a practicing and qualified lawyer. So it’s safer by far for them to call themselves paralegals, which is a widely understood and respected term.

slightly off topic here, but can someone who works in a nursery be called a "teacher" (e.g. preschool age 0 - 4?).

Och why do any of you care? For a lot of people this kind of thing stems from a lack of self esteem or embarrassment that they haven't achieved what they hoped.

The 'mickey mouse college' comment is a case in point.

But of compassion maybe?

@fluffumsi guess it depends on their qualifications. If they have trained as an early years teacher with Qualified teaching status then yes.

It’s more fun the other way round. Chap in my parents village described himself ata dinner party as “a plumber” which he was but neglected to say he owned a world famous plumbing type company and lived in the village exquisite Manor House complete with indoor and outdoor pools

Someone I know says on FB that she works at a very well known and loved NHS hospital. No love, you actually work on the bank at the small private hospital (different employer, management, everything) in the same building. Not quite the same!

@MsTSwift that’s brilliant! In a similar vein I know a barrister who tells random people he meets that he works at the bar. He says it stops taxi drivers asking for legal advice

@MsTSwift my step dad tells people he's a lawyer (well he was), he's actually a judge.

They can if they're a qualified teacher, fluffums - I know at least 4 who work in nurseries. On the other hand, I remember my brother's FIL referring to his DD as a nursery 'teacher', when she only held an NNEB at the time.

The best was a childminder describing herself as a teacher as she looked after children, the mind boggles.

My mum retired as a teacher and then worked at a pre school for 2 and 3 year olds (loved it) and was a pre school teacher.

I know another one who tells people she went to “Oxford”. When people reply with ooohhhhs and ahhhhhs she never corrects them. I honestly think she only applied to Oxford Brookes so she could say she went to Oxford!

Or a self effacing man I met recently who said he was “in the music industry” I thought he was abit square to be a pop star google and Wikipedia informed me he was a world renowned orchestra conductor. Or the couple who eye rolled that their dd was an actress again google confirmed she was a household name Oscar winner

A relative told us one of the mums at school was a QC, reality was she had only just become a barrister.