Stereotypes and misconceptions associated with your job/career

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lobbyist. People think I bribe govt officials. And eat out.

Yup, that's what I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lobbyist. People think I bribe govt officials. And eat out.

Dude, when I worked for a senator in college lobbyist ate out a LOT. They were like professional mail planners. I'm just sayin....

*lobbyists.

*meal.

Jesus. I can't get this right, apparently.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I am in the events industry and people tend to think you are automatically a wedding planner.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I am in the events industry and people tend to think you are automatically a wedding planner.

[Anonymous]

Elementary School Teacher: So many misconceptions...
Work from 9 - 3 (I may spend 10 hours in my building some days and ALWAYS have work to bring home)
Have summers "off" (Must take classes to keep teaching certification & usually have some type of training to attend)
Had low SAT scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social Worker. People think I can take their kids away (I can't) and I must be crunchy/granola/nice (I am not.)

This or you are expected to solve all their problems or you want to hear them on non-work hours for non-work related issues.

[Anonymous]

College professor. People think that I teach 6 hours a week, spend a couple of hours prepping, and hand off student work to TAs for grading, and that I earn a decently high salary. I work 40 hours a week, spend much of that time prepping (although a lot less now that I've been doing this for a decade), and I have no TAs. Most of my work hours are not not spent on teaching, but on research and writing (that's how tenure is determined, not by my teaching). My starting salary at a research university when I was first hired as an Assistant Professor was $45K in 2003. Sadly, this was very much the norm back then in the humanities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a lawyer. People think I'm anal, OCD and have difficulty relaxing. Oh wait........

*giggle*

Thanks. Hey, I know! People think lawyers are humorless.

[Anonymous]

Copywriter.

Not copyright-er. I can't get your precious manuscript filed with the Library of Congress or whatever.

[Anonymous]

I am a lawyer. People think I am greedy, wealthy, and the cause of all the evil in the world. In reality I work hard for my clients and make a fine but not fantastic living. And I refer people to the HBO Special, "Hot Coffee," when they go all tort reform on me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elementary School Teacher: So many misconceptions...
Work from 9 - 3 (I may spend 10 hours in my building some days and ALWAYS have work to bring home)
Have summers "off" (Must take classes to keep teaching certification & usually have some type of training to attend)
Had low SAT scores

my FAVORITE poster . . . always chiming in

high school teacher
'nuff said . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College professor. People think that I teach 6 hours a week, spend a couple of hours prepping, and hand off student work to TAs for grading, and that I earn a decently high salary. I work 40 hours a week, spend much of that time prepping (although a lot less now that I've been doing this for a decade), and I have no TAs. Most of my work hours are not not spent on teaching, but on research and writing (that's how tenure is determined, not by my teaching). My starting salary at a research university when I was first hired as an Assistant Professor was $45K in 2003. Sadly, this was very much the norm back then in the humanities.

You only work 40 hours a week?? Must be nice. Already tenured?

[Anonymous]

Not related to what I do, but my parents had a big farm. I worked with this guy when I was younger who assumed that meant we had bacon, eggs, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fresh squeezed oj, etc. etc. every morning for breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College professor. People think that I teach 6 hours a week, spend a couple of hours prepping, and hand off student work to TAs for grading, and that I earn a decently high salary. I work 40 hours a week, spend much of that time prepping (although a lot less now that I've been doing this for a decade), and I have no TAs. Most of my work hours are not not spent on teaching, but on research and writing (that's how tenure is determined, not by my teaching). My starting salary at a research university when I was first hired as an Assistant Professor was $45K in 2003. Sadly, this was very much the norm back then in the humanities.

You only work 40 hours a week?? Must be nice. Already tenured?

And here we go . . .

Thanks for showing how ignorant you are on thread about stereotypes.

[Anonymous]

DH is in IT and everybody assumes he knows everything about computers. No folks, he doesn't. He woke me up the other day because our wireless connection stopped working in the midst of his conference call with on overseas office. It was freaking 2am!!!