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!!??

@Fluffums in a nursery there is a nursery teacher and either TAs or nursery nurses etc

I've just signed DD up for a summer camp at Oxford. It's just a very naice 2 weeks of 'academic' study & A taster of college for her to try. At the end there's a 'graduation' ceremony. So she'll be able to say that she's graduated from Oxford. She's 15.
(Yes, we will all laugh hard if she dares to say it)

This thread reminds me of that film Catch me if you can with Leonardo DiCaprio. It's the epitome of this thread!

Ninaloves - I was just reading up on the guy that's about. A baby almost died due to his posing as paediatrician!

My sister did this a bit when she didn't understand what my niece had said when she started studying law at uni and told everyone when she graduated that she'd be a solicitor, thankfully the people she'd told are the type to believe it without question. My niece did tell her no mam I'll have a degree in law when I'm done, I want to be a barrister and that means that I'll have to do further study and training afterwards. Now my sister doesn't do it anymore.

My cousin however (not a nice woman and a compulsive liar) tells everyone how she used to work in banking and finance, she worked at a desk front in the post office. Her mam tells everyone that herself and her son are accountants when in fact they just keep books and do general admin and office work. There is nothing wrong with any of their actual jobs but by telling people they do something else, they're basically saying there is. Before starting uni I had a collection of odd jobs (bouncer, prison officer, costume actor at an open air museum, nursery worker) and loved them all. Thankfully my family are as equally proud of anyone of us working any job as your grafting and supporting yourself and that's worth more than any title. So the snobbery that people show trying to big their jobs up confuses me.

I does amuse me though that my mam was worried about my uni friends judging us because she doesn't have a fantastic career and yet they were really impressed with the fact that she is a seamstress and pestering her to show them the fun things she can do and make both by and machine, they were fascinated watching her knit a baby hat in a couple of hours and far less impressed with their own parents academic and 'proper' jobs.

I know one person who does this all the time and actually morphs a few of these posts. She “loves her teaching job - I’m so lucky..” actually she’s a TA ( nothing wrong with that but why claim you are a teacher? And then this year posts on Facebook of her and DC in Oxford “where DC will be studying from Sept....,,” and yes as pp have said, child had an offer for Oxford Brookes University!!! Again no prob with that but WHY feel the need...? This person does this ALL the time and I’m sure must be insecure on some way - but it’s so annoying as I would prob like her more if she didn’t do it.

Looking at you, Cheryl.

child had an offer for Oxford Brookes University

26.3% of students at Oxford Brookes were privately educated (cf Nottingham 20, Warwick 22). There's an MA dissertation in why, I suspect.

Love the Glastonbury allusion; it made me think of I went to New York as chaperone/singer on a school choir tour, and one of our venues was a church on Broadway. So I can honestly say that I have sung on Broadway, and if I omit "Choral Evensong" from the sentence, a whole different image is summoned up!
Claiming qualifications you do not have can land you in real trouble, if you gain "pecuniary advantage" from it. A primary school near where I used to live acquired a new head, with what looked like impressive qualifications; she came unstuck when her performance did not live up to expectations, and closer inquiry revealed some "inflation" of her CV; there was talk of a prosecution for fraudulently drawing a head teacher's salary. I was surprised at the time, as I always thought that qualifications were checked as a matter of routine.

DH has an engineering degree and is now a military officer. He gets annoyed when the people who fit telephone lines call themselves engineers. And when people who were in the University Officers' Training Corps or similar call themselves veterans.

Opthalmic technicians are not optometrists.
Rehabilitation support workers are not physios or OTs.
A HR admin assistant is not a HR Advisor.

Professionals jobs either require registration or qualification - nursing, teaching etc or chartered membership of a professional body such as the Institute of Civil Engineers or the IOSH. Or even associate/technical membership of a professional body.

Someone said further up the thread that they can’t stand library assistants referring to themselves as librarians. My local university have rebranded the assistants “information advisers” and the few librarians left are “information specialists.” The assistants are the staff you see issuing books, stacking the book shelves, providing front line IT advice etc. The specialists are office based.

According to this: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/25/do-libraries-run-by-volunteers-check-out

“500 of the UK’s 3,800 libraries are operated by ordinary people, working for free in a role once regarded as a profession.”

The volunteers call themselves librarians but do not have a postgraduate librarianship qualification. Nor are they members of CILIP.