Defend your profession!!!

I'm a full time mother. I don't get paid and work more hours than some brain surgeons. My kids are little bastards though, so maybe I'm not very good at my job. At least I don't have to answer to a boss.

Job Description: Mother
POSITION: Mother

JOB DESCRIPTION: Long-term team players needed for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24-hour shifts on call.

Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends, away sports matches and occasional visits to casualty. Travel expenses not reimbursed.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Must provide on-the-site training in basic life skills, such as nose-blowing and shoe-tying.

Must have strong skills in negotiating, conflict resolution and crisis management. Ability to treat flesh wounds a plus.

Must be able to think outside of the box but not lose track of the box, because you most likely will need it for a school project. Must reconcile petty cash disbursements and be proficient in managing budgets and resources fairly, unless you want to hear, 'He got more than me' for the rest of your life.

Also, must be able to drive motor vehicles safely under loud and adverse conditions while simultaneously practicing above-mentioned skills in conflict resolution. Must be able to withstand criticism, such as 'You don't know anything.'

Must be willing to be hated at least temporarily, until someone needs extra pocket money for the cinema.

Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the garden are not someone just crying wolf.

Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zips. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and co-ordinate production of multiple homework projects.

Must have ability to plan and organise social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.

Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
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EmmZ said:
I'm a full time mother. I don't get paid and work more hours than some brain surgeons. My kids are little bastards though, so maybe I'm not very good at my job. At least I don't have to answer to a boss.
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what Mom isn't a full time mother?
 
jnc1110 said:
As for me, I'm a college student. I don't work a part-time job because I've hypothesized that uneducated jobs will de-educate a person. That's just my opinion though. I'll save the blue collar jobs for the uneducated, because I sure as hell can't afford to lose precious mnemomically preserved scientific facts:cool:.
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hey i'm a collage student too. but what do you plan on working in?
besides..if you degrade real life experience you will be eaten alive when you enter the real world..
tuberculatious said:
Accountant:

every day is an adventure because no two spreadsheets are the same.
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i can't wait to see your face when you come across two which are :D
 
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Defend your profession!!!
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Pfft.

There is no defense.

All practitioners of The Devil's Trade should be crucified forthwith.

I'd quit myself, but I sold my soul long ago to gain entry into the fraternity of the Black Art.

:mufc:
 
Well I'm a full-time student, but I work pretty much all the spare hours I have in a restaurant.
People who work in the food industry, and I mean all of them, work hard. Plus, you need to have good people skills (or else the job will help you to develop them).

Furthermore, I believe that hard work is character-building.
 
I'd like to...but so far haven't really decided on my future career. There are so many options and I'm literally lost in that sea of decisions. I guess I'm going to do something with languages and/or history or.....oh man...too many options especially when you don't have a particular talent for something...
 
scifes said:
nothing like the physical drop of sweat at work..but how change ppl lives by manual labor?
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Lol, it's called being an intern. I don't get paid shit. I'm a licensed PI working as a criminal investigator for the Public Defenders Association. Believe me, it's hard work and you do change ppl's lives; in fact, depending on the case, their lives might rest in your hands. As far as manual labor goes, I clean houses on the side (have been for 5 years) and before that I changed oil for 3 1/2 (since I was 14).
 
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