What your DCs THINK you do for a living Vs what you actually do...

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Just for fun.

I asked 3yo DD what Mummy does at work: "You read magazines!"

I'm a journalist.

We taught when we were about six how to spell psychiatrist - my father's job. I can still remember my mother spelling out each of the letters even now. Very little children may not know. We do talk a lot about who does what for work and I cannot remember the time they did not know my own profession.

I love this thread My DD is too young to ask, but I tell her daddy goes to work to buy us sweeties. I'm going back to work in 2 weeks. I wish I read magazines

My sons think I own a Cinema ( long story)
My business holds some movie based events for families .
It's based abroad, but when we all lived in that country they used to attend. For the past 4 years we've been in the UK and they've never seen me leave the house for work, so it's all they remember.

Despite being the sole earner for all of us, for the reasons above, sadly my 13 yr old DD seems to think I do absolutely nothing :(

I am a teacher and dd is at the same school as me, so she has a fairly accurate idea. Maybe once she's in my class I will start to do bizarre and crazy things just to confuse her.

My sons think I sell computers.

I am in sales, and I do sell, but testing services.

They are not alone, no one else gets what I do either.

I work in agriculture, My kids know what I do because often I rope them into helping after school, weekends, holidays etc. They're currently mixing molasses in with a dry feed for sheep and I'm sitting on my fat arse on mumsnet with a stinking hangover. Fab isn't it?? [grins]

My two year old thinks I go shopping all day. This is because my dh drops me off in the morning, with her in the car, outside a shop, where I meet my lift. When I get home, she says "Back from shopping, mummy?" I'm actually a teacher. I would rather go shopping.

My DS thinks I play Minecraft and draw stuff.

I'm an animator...close enough.

I work in a theatre and my DH is a community artist, mostly making films and I think my DD (2.5yo) has a very strange impression of the work place! She told nursery DH is on tele.

I had an argument with my 2.5yo when I tried to explain to her that I play with books at work (I'm a librarian). She took great umbrage at this and wailed for half an hour that only she was allowed to play with books...

And Daddy tells people to "go away" - he's in the police so that's reasonably correct

According to DS (4) I go to work to eat crisps. I wish. sodding slimming world

For a long time DD thought I worked on a train (I go to work by train...)

DD thinks I make chocolate. As do many of my friends.

I'm actually an internal communication specialist. But at a chocolate company.

My friends ds thought that mummy flew around on a plane all the time she wasn't at home. The 'mummys off on a plane for work' needed a better explanation!

Ds is fairly accurate on what dh and I do

The dc still tell people I'm a dr. I used to be a midwife I am now an accountant! I guess if they don't follow you to work they just remember the last place they saw you work.

Dd fair enough she's 8 and every time we drive past the hospital she says 'you work there mummy' me 'not anymore dd, remember I work at xyz now'. Then she forgets and says I work at the hospital!!! The other 2 it's insulting they don't know where I work they are 16 and 12!

Helpme do you like being an accountant more than a midwife? When did you retrain?
Sorry really interested.

Aged 4 in a drama class my son had to talk about or act out what I did for a living. He told them I was a sea serpent. I'm a civil servant.

DS believes I drive a train. I'm an accountant.

My DN thinks that my DH goes to work and does the shopping (?) and it's my job to take DS to soft play.

I was quite confident that my dad played for man united when I was little.

He was in the forces, and played football on a Sunday. I think they won their Sunday league around the time Man U won some trophy or other, so I put two and two together....

DD2 says DH cooks (owns a wine bar) and I play with numbers (accountant)

My dn used to think that I was a 'disease detective' I'm a public health analyst but her description sounds more exciting :)

I'm in business development for a charity.

DD1 (then 5) once said incredulously, "but mummy, you don't work! You just go to MEETINGS!"

Both DDs think daddy makes computers. (Software developer).

We stayed with my parents whilst we were doing up our house and used to pick my dad up from work fairly regularly. DD1 (then about 3) used to tell people that we fetched grandad from his workhouse.

pancakesfortea love the sea serpent description!