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Could you describe your partner's job?

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  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    edited 22 April 2015 at 6:34PM
    Chef / cleaner / gardener / painter decorator / car valeter / personal assistant / child minder / researcher / laundry operative / teacher /refuse collector / counsellor /....

    aka. SAHD :D
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  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    Baby_Angel wrote: »
    I know what my DH does, when his shift hours are, when he gets paid, what kind of benefits he has/hasn't got with his employers, when his NMW will increase, what kind of pension scheme he has, etc.

    On the other hand, he knows the title of my job. He says I do something with computers. He doesn't even know the name of my company (if he thinks long enough, he can come up with a close match).

    this is me too - my OH is a chef, he owns his own restaurant, and over the years i've seen him at work many many times so i know what he does.

    Neither my OH nor my daughter could accurately describe either my employer, my job title, or what i actually do - mostly because its civil service and so the title/description etc hold little relevance in the "real" work world.
  • pinkduvetdiva
    pinkduvetdiva Posts: 405 Forumite
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    I know my OH's job title and his salary, but I could not tell you what his work entails...
  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    Now this is baffling for me , he does something with back end systems and databases, was oracle dba then took exams now a senior technical architect but not in the draw a house sense???

    Makes our pillow talk very heavy and baffling as it really is over my head big style.
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  • Molly41
    Molly41 Posts: 4,919 Forumite
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    I could tell you but I'd have to kill you…….seriously !
    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. When it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    When the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • pleasedelete
    pleasedelete Posts: 2,291 Forumite
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    Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »
    I could describe what my husband does but I don't know how much he earns.

    I can easily recognise the building in which his office is located but I don't know the address.

    Now I think about it, I'm woefully uninformed!

    Honestly? You dont know what he earns?
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  • jayII
    jayII Posts: 40,693 Forumite
    verysillyguy06 wrote: »
    ?? Really?? This is surely 2015 and a bit late for a April's fool's?

    I can describe what you do...strangely. :D

    Can you do me? :whistle: :p
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  • verysillyguy06
    verysillyguy06 Posts: 37,692 Forumite
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    jayII wrote: »
    I can describe what you do...strangely. :D

    Can you do me? :whistle: :p

    Yep, I could and would greatly enjoy it :D
    You have the right to remain silent.Anything you do say will be misquoted and then used against you ;)

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  • comeandgo
    comeandgo Posts: 5,930 Forumite
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    My first husband did artificial insemination.
  • Jojo_the_Tightfisted
    Jojo_the_Tightfisted Posts: 27,228 Forumite
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    Yup. And he knows what I'm paid to do and what I actually end up doing that bears no relation to the paltry grade and pay. Before he left his last job, I also got to hear chapter and verse about it.

    We've got similar jobs now. So I know what's involved in the bit I don't actually see.
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