Indygrrl- I know it would be silly to assume that the strippers are legitimately interested in the clients beyond separating them from their money 
but is there really that much resentment? I’ve been to strip clubs before, I know they are putting on a show/act but just the same I don’t think I could go if I knew that deep down they hated me for just being there 
I never had any negative assumptions about strippers, though. Heck, if I had the body, I’d do it too! (honestly people are more likely to pay me to put my clothes back on though 
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My job(s)
Crossing Guard- No, I’m not a cop. Yes, I work for the police department. No, I don’t carry a gun. Yes, I get paid to do this job. No, I’m not standing around for 6 hours while kids are in class, I’m only there when they are going to school and leaving. Heck, while I’m typing this post I’m between shifts. 
Also, I’m not totally bothered by people mistaking me for a police officer. I certainly get treated better while the uniform is on
Tutor- I get all sorts of odd questions from parents at the tutoring center I work at. Something that pisses me off about some parents is that they have this notion that if they intimidate the youngest, most vulnerable-looking employee, they can get whatever they want. So if they are unhappy about how much they are paying for a membership, they’ll rant and scream not at the manager, but at the poor 16 year old girl who is four-foot-nothing, only worked here a month, doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with how much we charge, etc in the hopes that she will somehow fix things :mad: . On the other side of the coin, I get coworkers who don’t understand why I do this job for a living because the pay is so low :smack: . Gee, what a startling revelation, what have I been doing for the past two years?! :rolleyes: I work there because I enjoy it. The schedule is flexible, and they should mind their own damn business.
Piano Teacher- I’m a student teacher, which means I teach beginner piano and take lessons myself. I’ve done it for a year and I’m personally still in the process of ‘learning how to teach’ so that eventually I can teach on my own and not through a master teacher. People complain to me that the tuition is too high, that to pay $26.50 a week for piano lessons is ludicrous. They also believe that I make a killing doing this job. Wrong! The pay is decent but they don’t realize we have to pay studio fees to lease the rooms that we teach in, plus the master teacher gets a (large) cut of my student’s tuition. Also, I have to be a student myself, which means I pay tuition as well. When you factor in no-shows/people that don’t pay, sometimes I make $0 and had days where I sat in a cold studio room calling people because NOBODY showed up.
I had a classmate in school tell me she was thinking of learning to play the piano, and I mentioned that I teach piano (I’m always looking for new students). When I explained its a 30 minute lesson a week, she balked, saying her friend teaches piano and she gives 45 minute lessons. I asked her how much her friend charges, and she said $50 a week. Ah hah! I said. “Your friend charges about 25% more on a per-hour basis than I do.” I explained. “But she teaches for 45 minutes at a time!” Even when I broke down the math to try to explain how my lessons were more cost-effective than her friend’s, she still didn’t get it. She was trying to save money here, she explained to me. Maybe I was better off not having her as a student :wally Longer does not always equal better. I’m curious if her friend teaches piano to 5-year olds with ADHD (because I have/do) or kids with parents who shout and intimidate the hell out of the kid the whole lesson, making him/her miserable the whole time than telling me that I didn’t do enough to help their child. :mad: