Stereotypes and misconceptions associated with your job/career

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a wizard.

People think it's all about playing tricks on Muggles, watching quidditch, and drinking pumpkin beer, but it's not. I'm really fighting Voldemort all day long and sometimes have to work the night shift too. The pay isn't great and the magic food might look pretty but tastes like crap.

You are awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a wizard.

People think it's all about playing tricks on Muggles, watching quidditch, and drinking pumpkin beer, but it's not. I'm really fighting Voldemort all day long and sometimes have to work the night shift too. The pay isn't great and the magic food might look pretty but tastes like crap.

What are you talking about, you big whiner? You have a vault full of gold at Gringotts and your godfather left you a posh townhouse smack dab in London. Must be nice.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fed. People assume I am grossly overpaid, lazy, never at work on Fridays and stealing the tax dollars of harder-working Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a wizard.

People think it's all about playing tricks on Muggles, watching quidditch, and drinking pumpkin beer, but it's not. I'm really fighting Voldemort all day long and sometimes have to work the night shift too. The pay isn't great and the magic food might look pretty but tastes like crap.

I thought Wizards could say POOF! and make more money?

Maybe you're not doing it correctly.

Thanks, Hermione.

[Anonymous]

"I am a wizard. "

Please conjure up a spell to fix the economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lobbyist. People think I'm evil/rule the world/am rich/am highly influential, you name it. Unfortunately, none of those are true...except for the evil part.

I want to be a lobbyist. I assume they have long hours and are married to their jobs. It's not in my cards during this life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm a SAHM...where should I start ?

Okay, I'll say it because I believe it - You don't have a job/career.

I sort of think I shouldn't take the bait here, but.....I'm not even a SAHM and I find this so stupid. Perhaps staying at home isn't a career, but not a job? WTF - do you not have children?! If you do and you don't think that staying at home with your kids is tough, challenging, and incredibly important, than I really feel sorry for your kids. It is THE most important job.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I do have kids, but don't run around saying I have 2 jobs - working outside the home and raising my kids. Raising your kids is life not a job. Is it hard work, yes, but so is managing a relationship with my MIL, so is keeping my house clean, so are a lot of things that are considered LIFE not a JOB. The OP stated job slash career which to me implied paid employment. You have nothing to feel sorry about with my kids. They are most definitely the most important responsibility I have, but not the most important job. I feel sorry for your kids that you consider raising them a job.

[Anonymous]

"I'm the poster you're responding to. I do have kids, but don't run around saying I have 2 jobs - working outside the home and raising my kids. Raising your kids is life not a job. Is it hard work, yes, but so is managing a relationship with my MIL, so is keeping my house clean, so are a lot of things that are considered LIFE not a JOB. The OP stated job slash career which to me implied paid employment. You have nothing to feel sorry about with my kids. They are most definitely the most important responsibility I have, but not the most important job. I feel sorry for your kids that you consider raising them a job."

Calling bull$hit here. Hard to believe you really give a rat's a$s about PP's kids.

Brownie points for the high school response!

[Anonymous]

I agree w/ 13:01. Being a SAHM is not a "job". It's a lifestyle choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer. People think I make a shit ton of $. Nope.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

I see being a SAHM/D as a more of a job than being a stay at home husband or wife with no kids at all.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

If you work full time someone else is raising your kids during the 40-50-60 hours a week you are at work and you are paying someone to do that job. If it wasn't a job we wouldn't pay nannies and daycare workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

If you work full time someone else is raising your kids during the 40-50-60 hours a week you are at work and you are paying someone to do that job. If it wasn't a job we wouldn't pay nannies and daycare workers.

NP. What if I don't have someone else doing that-what if my spouse and I split that, with some pinch-hitting help from extended family if we need it, in addition to both working full time? I respect people who stay home with their kids and some days, wish I could afford to do it, but it is not a job. I agree with the PPs who called it more of a lifestyle choice or just part of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

If you work full time someone else is raising your kids during the 40-50-60 hours a week you are at work and you are paying someone to do that job. If it wasn't a job we wouldn't pay nannies and daycare workers.

Don't everyone's kids go to school?