Everyone Is Sharing What People Just Don't Get About Their Jobs
By Aimee LutkinUpdated July 2 2018, 4:09 p.m. ET
Whatever your job is, if you've been doing it for awhile, you've probably heard it all. As soon as you say whatever it is, someone will comment on it like they know all about your life. Well, you don't. Being a blogger contains multitudes, okay?
Designer Louie Mantia asked his followers what people most often misunderstood about their jobs, and there are a lot of people who are incredibly frustrated with the general public.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
— Louie (@Mantia) July 1, 2018There are the overworked and underpaid college faculty:
Half your college teachers are adjuncts with no job security & will be gone by the time you need a recommendation. 1/4 are on the tenure track & bleeding out their eyeballs with overwork. The other 1/4 have normal jobs but they all have PTSD https://t.co/jAsK8oJbAO
— Eleanor Courtemanche (@ecourtem) July 2, 2018Folks whose job it is to criticize popular culture—key word is job. They aren't just complaining:
Critiquing and/or criticizing popular culture doesn't mean you hate it; it means you believe it has the potential to be better https://t.co/d6shsbRtIs
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) July 2, 2018Journalists have been getting a really bad reputation the last few years, as we all know, and the truth is they're mostly not all that elite:
A significant number of journalists in Canada and the United States are working class and many have second jobs. https://t.co/GKzVjAPAFZ
— Karen K. Ho (@karenkho) July 2, 2018Um, bloggers:
Like... 80% of the people you read on your favorite websites are probably living paycheck to paycheck. https://t.co/F28mQEifd5
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 2, 2018Just because someone works for Netflix doesn't mean they can control Netflix::
i cant get netflix to renew canceled shows https://t.co/wJB3UnZKh0
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) July 2, 2018Reverends don't have six days off a week, did you know?
I don't only work on Sundays. https://t.co/Ugw6VgZM18
— The Rev'd Kira Schlesinger (@kmays) July 2, 2018Just because someone's work involves a computer doesn't mean the computer is doing the work:
Visual effects are created by people, not computers. https://t.co/SyEmZeQ4RT
— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) July 2, 2018Libraries are all stocked up on The Da Vinci Code, thanks:
We already have multiple editions of Jane Austen, Dr. Seuss, and the bestselling novel of eight years ago. If you donate another copy to us, we will not add it to the collection. Consider donating books to prison libraries, hospital libraries, and other libraries in need of them. https://t.co/7KdkJqoEUF
— Vromis, Metadata She-Dragon (@marccold) July 2, 2018Stop complaining about video games taking so long to come out (which I guess is something people who play video games do):
During development, most video games aren't especially fun and look very basic: It all comes together at the end. If we're not showing to the public it's because what we'd show wouldn't impress you. If a game is delayed, trust me, you didn't want to play the non-delayed version. https://t.co/fVH46CtZU7
— Dan Lowe (@danlowlows) July 2, 2018Just because it sounds awesome doesn't mean it's not a real gig, with work involved:
Making comics is a real job. https://t.co/Kph1zBzkim
— -Boulet- (@Bouletcorp) July 2, 2018Studying religion and being religious may relate, but they're not synonymous:
Biblical scholarship is a rigorous academic pursuit comprising a number of disciplines.
Reading, reciting, and memorizing the bible is not biblical scholarship.
Biblical scholars can be religious and do critical scholarship on their own scriptures.
The bible isn't a book. https://t.co/6VZydzKkXl
The Earth is what's going to kill us, according to this scientist:
Radiation and fission are natural processes. Many natural radiation sources exist (radon, cosmic rays, potassium-40 inside you) and the earth beat us at building a nuclear reactor by about 2 billion years https://t.co/HbTxzyPmmk
— Katie 'better than the W23' Mummah (@nuclearkatie) July 2, 2018Don't ask your friends who do graphic design to draw you:
Graphic design and illustration are two whole different circles on a Venn diagram. https://t.co/Br2qgWEIUr
— Amy 👑 King (@sephiramy) July 2, 2018Tip. TIP.
1. Service jobs are almost always understaffed so please be patient
2. Tipping service workers keeps them alive
3. The worker you're yelling at is often likely to not be the person responsible for your complaint so please keep it low https://t.co/APGREiQfPh
This is honestly something I hope everyone knows:
Evolution is real. https://t.co/CD9ykIs1N2
— Martha Muñoz (@marmmunoz) July 2, 2018But this I cannot accept:
Archaeologists don't deal with dinosaurs and few of us ever excavate abroad.
— Martin Rundkvist (@mrundkvist) July 2, 2018If digging up old bones isn't super cool, there's no longer any point to blogging my way through archeology school.
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