I am a classroom teacher for toddler/preschool age children with autism. They all have one on one staff and along with running the class, I also am 1:1 with a student all day. I manage the classroom, all of the kids as well as all of the staff in my room working with each child.
I look at people who shoot 50 weddings a year and I'm exhausted just thinking about it. The culling, editing, social media, networking, meetings? Exhausted.
Yeah, I know! It is more than a full-time job and you have to constantly be on your marketing game. I'm happy with 10 or so weddings a year. Sometimes I have 2 weddings in a month and that seems overwhelming. LOL.
I limit myself to assistant coordinating one per month because I'm too old for 14 hour days now. I need weeks to recover.
*blank stare* "So what does an underwriter do exactly?"
Yes! And also:
"Insurance companies are the devil, why do they suck so much?" They don't suck so much, people just generally don't read their policies to see what's covered and what isn't, and they just sign on the dotted line.
"My insurance company denied a claim I made. Why did they do that?" Beats the hell out of me, I don't work in Claims.
Post by lilypad1126 on May 3, 2017 19:35:40 GMT -5
"Oh, your're a college professor? What subject do you teach?" No, I work in higher ed administration at a university. What part of that says to you that i teach?
Also, I am an attorney (non-practicing, obviously-I have always worked in higher ed administration). But when people hear that I'm an attorney I get "Do you not practice because you aren't smart enough? And also, can you help me with my legal issue?" 😡
.....oh...so, like, are you a real lawyer? My cousins, uncles, sisters friend was arrested for a robbery and has a public defender...should they get a real lawyer and how many months of probation will the get?" : insert side-eye:
Especially students ask this. Yes, how do you think we have the time to work so diligently on your course work just so you can bitch and moan at every turn.
"Oh, I could NEVER do that." "You must not get paid very much/other generic joke about low wages!" "Some joke about working with 'crazies.'"
I'm a social worker/therapist. When I've identified myself as a social worker (I'm an MSW), people usually assume I'm with CPS, especially if I mention I do home visits. When I first got my current job, my mom's friend's daughter who wants to get her BSW was convinced that I'm with CPS or foster care. My mom told her friend that no, I just do home-based therapy. Mom's friend said, "No, she does something with foster care. My daughter told me." I finally sent my mom a link to my agency's page where it describes what my department does. I honestly don't know why that woman was so adamant that she was right. Um, I think I know what I do for a living, thanks.
Post by lolalolalola on May 5, 2017 13:12:39 GMT -5
I work in oile & gas for a well known company- most of the comments are similar to "how are things going over there?" or "shitty times, huh?" Or "I've heard how bad things are there"
People don't usually comment on what I teacher, but where I teach. Our HS is large for our area and people ask if I like it or worry about the demographic of kids (uh... no).
Nurse Cramer had stopped speaking to Nurse Duckett, her best friend, because of her liaison with Yossarian, but still went everywhere with Nurse Duckett since Nurse Duckett was her best friend....Nurse Cramer was prepared to begin talking to Nurse Duckett again if she repented and apologized.
If I attempt a real answer, I just get a glazed over look or some comment about being a computer coder. (I work in software development) I usually just say the company I work for because it's one of the largest employers in my city. They usually respond with I know so and so who works there/used to work there. Do you know them? Yes, of course, I know all 25,000+ people who work here...