# Describe your job badly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981 "2020-10-26T22:19:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/1 "2020-10-26T22:19:17Z")
For many years, I have worked a building nobody wants to come to. It is crowded and loud vehicles are usually outside. We sometimes stick tubes into people’s mouths and needles in their arms, then force fluid through them. Sometimes we give people electric shocks or wrap body parts in hard shells. They wait a long time, pay a lot and are usually grateful. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/2 "2020-10-27T01:32:31Z")
I work at a place full of old stuff no one wants any more. Despite this, people sometimes come in just to look at the old stuff. Just look at it, nothing else. Occasionally they ask questions about where it came from or what it represents. Other times, they tell me they, or a relative, used to have similar stuff, or remember using it in the past. All this seems to please them, for some reason. They even pay for the privilege of looking around. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/3 "2020-10-27T01:34:26Z")
Suicide in slow motion ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/4 "2020-10-27T01:38:59Z")
I sit at a computer and press mostly number keys followed by mouse clicks and every once in a while employ the other keys on my keyboard to write an email to someone I could carry a conversation with, without either of us moving from our desks, at slightly above normal volume levels. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/5 "2020-10-27T01:43:08Z")
I would say that I am a babysitter of adults, but that would be describing my job accurately instead of describing it badly. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/6 "2020-10-27T01:55:24Z")
When I’m not flying miniature helicopters and airplanes, I spend large amounts of time telling people how long or how big things are. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/7 "2020-10-27T02:07:20Z")
Underpaid petty bureaucrat in the health insurance/industrial complex. All day long I do nothing that actually helps patients or providers; I just make providers jump through meaningless hoops to treat patients and keep staff on their payrolls just to deal with deal with us. I want out. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/8 "2020-10-27T02:40:51Z")
I copy and paste words into boxes to beg for money. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/9 "2020-10-27T02:41:32Z")
Husband. Father. Badly. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/10 "2020-10-27T10:33:36Z")
I count boxes using a spreadsheet ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/11 "2020-10-27T12:28:48Z")
I indoctrinate young people in correct ways of thinking. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/12 "2020-10-27T12:29:40Z")
I use a computer to make virtual things that hopefully convince other people to buy physical things. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/13 "2020-10-27T12:29:49Z")
Retired now, but when I worked I was, in my own rather specialised part of the pharma industry, a very good filler-in of forms. j ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/14 "2020-10-27T12:32:48Z")
I do the impossible for the ungrateful. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/15 "2020-10-27T14:39:45Z")
I buy things for people. Sometimes I don’t even know what the things are for. I also do simple chores, to keep important people from having to do them. Everyone talks to me about their problems and I fix them if I can, or just make nice noises. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/16 "2020-10-27T15:32:14Z")
I spend the day having people lie to me, while putting considerable effort into making my job more difficult than it needs to be. Institutional communications and support at all levels is spotty at best. Management is outright hostile. But the pay is good! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/17 "2020-10-27T15:48:53Z")
I sit in the dark and wait for bad things to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/18 "2020-10-27T15:56:54Z")
I make dust out of wood, metal, and lacquer. Sometimes the parts left over get sold. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/19 "2020-10-27T16:19:34Z")
I have spent the last 30 years designing equipment that makes it easier, cheaper and faster to download porn. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-job-badly/923981/20 "2020-10-27T16:49:29Z")
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