Stereotypes and misconceptions associated with your job/career

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:doctor - ppl think i'm RICH.

Hahahahahaha! My friend is a doctor and they are nor rich, not by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re: the teacher argument. A number of close family friends are teachers and here's my take. During the school year they work very hard. Often from 7am to 6pm, when you consider planning, meetings, etc. That said, they DO get a LOT of vacation time. Two weeks at Christmas (that's all I get all year at my job in the private sector), a week for spring break, all holidays, snow/hurricane days, and the summer (which is more like two months for most). And most of that vacation time is not spent working.

There are also other things like the fact that during they day they rarely if ever go out to lunch. They can't hop online and shop for a gift or read DCUM. Often they can't even go to the bathroom when they need to.

So in short - they work very hard but get a lot of time off.

Two weeks I wish...We have off five weekdays - Monday, Dec. 26 - Friday, Dec. 30th & Monday, Jan. 2nd

[Anonymous]

I lived across the street from a grammar school for 22 years. During the school year, the employee parking lot was emptied by 3:15 p.m. Sharp.

[Anonymous]

It's amusing that people who simply know teachers think they know more about teaching than actual teachers do.

Would a man know more about being a woman more than a woman does simply because he has lots of women in his family?

And no, I'm not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

PP here-

Meant to type:

"Would a man know more about being a woman than a woman does simply because he has lots of women in his family?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if I work and raise my kids....do I have two jobs?

Not sure. But you have never-ending work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an engineer but not mechanically inclined. So I won't always know how to put something together correctly on the first try.

Can you load a dishwasher properly? My husband is an engineer and can't figure out how to do this at all.

Sure can! Maybe your husband is a full time con man and a part time engineer.

[Anonymous]

I am an editor. My biggest pet peeve in the world is that nobody seems to realize or believe that my job requires specialized knowledge or training. People think that all you have to do is know the basic rules of grammar that everybody learns in 4th grade. Pretty much every single one of my authors thinks he/she is just as qualified as me because he/she also knows English. I get lots of MSS back with corrections to my corrections, all written in overblown pompous academic language. I have to go and change everything back. And then it's "HOW DARE YOU! I HAVE A PHD!" Guess what, buddy? So do I!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an editor. My biggest pet peeve in the world is that nobody seems to realize or believe that my job requires specialized knowledge or training. People think that all you have to do is know the basic rules of grammar that everybody learns in 4th grade. Pretty much every single one of my authors thinks he/she is just as qualified as me because he/she also knows English. I get lots of MSS back with corrections to my corrections, all written in overblown pompous academic language. I have to go and change everything back. And then it's "HOW DARE YOU! I HAVE A PHD!" Guess what, buddy? So do I!

Know-it-all uppity PhDs.

[Anonymous]

"Know-it-all, uppity PhDs."

Fixed it for you!

[Anonymous]

yawn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Know-it-all, uppity PhDs."

Fixed it for you!

Did that on purpose to see if you would fix it. *Sticks out tongue* You should have left it be. Just proves my point. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Speech therapist. People think I love kids and fix lisps all day long. In reality, I work in an acute care hospital and work with brain injured patients, patients on ventilators and who have trachs, and have never ever worked with a kid who stutters. I also don't like kids that much.

[Anonymous]

Nurse---people tend to think a) not smart enough to be a doctor and b) sleeping with the doctors. Infuriating (and not true!).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a librarian. Many people don't understand why someone would need a master's degree to become a librarian. Most people think I check out books for a living or only need to know the Dewey Decimal System to do my job.

You beat me to it. You also forgot about shushing people And when you aren't checking out books, you have a lot of 'free time' to read on the job. I wish...

Same here! I love that there are several of us on here.