Could you describe your partner's job?

DigForVictory

Maybe I should be a little more fair on my OH.
When I was checking annual accounts daily, I described my job as "accountant" as I wanted the interest to switch off. I moved a bit & now do electronic accounts, but still aim to see the light of curiosity die.

My Scouts have no inhibitions, limited short term memory & find what I do fascinating as I refuse to explain it. I've not batted down the idea I'm M as it makes us all chuckle too much.

Izadora

Peter333 wrote: »

Not read any posts in the thread yet, but how on EARTH can you not know what your spouse/partner's job is?! I am guessing it's mostly women who don't know their man's job? Maybe I am wrong.

I think the majority of people know roughly what their partner's job is but would struggle to describe what it is they actually do.

Seeing as I find it difficult enough to describe what it is that I do for a living there's no chance I could describe my boyfriend's much-more-technical-than-mine job, even though we've worked together for 12 years.

ETA - he wouldn't know where to start with describing mine past basic job title either, so it's not just because I'm a little woman who can't bother her pretty little head with the intricacies of her man's job.

Jagraf

My Hubbie just moans about his job for a living. Huffing and puffing, sighing and yawning.

If anyone asks what he does for a living, I just say "moans about his job".

squirrelchops

Seanymph wrote: »

I know what OH does, what he earns, and mostly where he is doing it. Because I listen.

He knows my job title, and generally asks 'are you working from home today'. He has no idea what I do.

He decided early on it was 'boring' and he'd 'rather stick pins in his eyes all day', so whilst his face assumes the correct expression when I'm talking about my job his ears are switched off to allow his brain to shut down.

Exactly the same with my OH.

squirrelchops

Peter333 wrote: »

Seriously??? :rotfl:

Not read any posts in the thread yet, but how on EARTH can you not know what your spouse/partner's job is?! I am guessing it's mostly women who don't know their man's job? Maybe I am wrong.

I am also guessing that these people don't know how much their partner earns either, and they probably have separate bank accounts.

How odd. Me and my wife know exactly what each others jobs are, and what we both earn (joint bank accounts,) and we both have access to all the money we both earn.

I don't think I even know anyone who doesn't know their spouse/partner's job. Is this a wind-up? :rotfl:

It is, isn't it???

My OH knows what my job is, of course he does but he couldnt describe in any detail the actual functions as they are so numerous.

I am a Social Worker - he knows that but if you asked him what I do he would say I 'go round to people's houses and have a chat'.

Jagraf

Peter333 wrote: »

Seriously??? :rotfl:

Not read any posts in the thread yet, but how on EARTH can you not know what your spouse/partner's job is?! I am guessing it's mostly women who don't know their man's job? Maybe I am wrong.

I am also guessing that these people don't know how much their partner earns either, and they probably have separate bank accounts.

How odd. Me and my wife know exactly what each others jobs are, and what we both earn (joint bank accounts,) and we both have access to all the money we both earn.

I don't think I even know anyone who doesn't know their spouse/partner's job. Is this a wind-up? :rotfl:

It is, isn't it???

My Hubbie has a very specialised job, I know his title and roughly what his work might entail. But no, I don't claim to know what he does or how he does it, its his job using his skills.

It has nothing to do with what we earn, at all. I know my neighbour is a chef, and could say she used a knives and cooks food, but I don't know much more about it.

GBNI

I know what my OH does and a rough idea of what it entails but I couldn't go into all the technical terms with it. I know roughly what he earns on a month to month basis (although he often gets overtime)

Lily-Rose_3

Andypandyboy wrote: »

Of course I could and so could they. We often discuss it, I don't really understand how two people who live together wouldn't know.

Peter333 wrote: »

Seriously??? :rotfl:

Not read any posts in the thread yet, but how on EARTH can you not know what your spouse/partner's job is?! I am guessing it's mostly women who don't know their man's job? Maybe I am wrong.

I am also guessing that these people don't know how much their partner earns either, and they probably have separate bank accounts.

I don't think I even know anyone who doesn't know their spouse/partner's job. Is this a wind-up? :rotfl:

It is, isn't it???

I agree. I find it puzzling also, that people don't know what their partner's job is. Me and my husband have ALWAYS known each others jobs, and what each other does. I understand some jobs have confidentiality issues, but their partner should still know what they do. Maybe it's a case of some couples not communicating the same as others. I have known a number of people in the past that don't know much about their partner's job, and have absolutely NO idea what their partner earns. I find this very strange.

Mr_Toad wrote: »

My ex used to tell people I worked with 'those computer thingies'.

At parties I used to tell people I was a yoghurt salesman, mention computers and you get cornered by people who want you to fix their PC problems, for free, and get offended if you weren't interested. Nobody wants to talk about yoghurt.

I can understand this - and what Duchy mentioned

duchy wrote: »

When I worked as a travel agent I used to get "can you get me free holidays" or getting asked endless specific holiday questions - from people I barely knew. I loved my job but I didn't want to be doing it for nothing on my days off with strangers - I used to get the neighbours knocking when their broadband or computers stopped working because of my current job- Now I've moved the new neighbours don't know what I do so they don't ask.

My MIL used to work at the council, in allocations, and if she had a fiver for every person that asked her if she could 'get them a house,' she would have been able to buy herself a small island!

She couldn't even get HERSELF a flipping council tenancy, never mind some random nobody she hardly knew, or some distant extended family member who normally spoke to her twice a year, but started speaking to her daily, when they thought she could get a tenancy for 'a decent house in a nice area' for her pregnant 18 year old daughter!

My husband also, has moved into I.T. in the past year, and he has lost count of the amount of people who hound him to fix their computer. And they never ever EVER offer him any money to do it. He has started to say he doesn't have the time, as he is busy with work his employer has given him to do at home.

People don't half like to take advantage.

Also, my niece worked for Maccy D's last year, and whenever she mentioned it to anyone, she would get a tirade of abuse from people about the appalling service they had received, and someone actually said to her one time 'You owe me a fiver!' They claimed they had been shortchanged last week, and apparently my niece owed them a fiver!

You couldn't make it up! :rotfl:

Jagraf

Why is it some people think their relationship must be better because they share the intricacies of their OH job? The last thing we want to talk about really is a post Mortem of what we did at work for other people. I like to think I know more about my OH than what he 'does'.

We find talking about our jobs quite stressful, as we have stressful jobs. It gets a bit tedious.

But we do know what we both earn, the two are not related at all.

Andypandyboy

Jagraf wrote: »

Why is it some people think their relationship must be better because they share the intricacies of their OH job? The last thing we want to talk about really is a post Mortem of what we did at work for other people. I like to think I know more about my OH than what he 'does'.

We find talking about our jobs quite stressful, as we have stressful jobs. It gets a bit tedious.

But we do know what we both earn, the two are not related at all.

I just think it is odd that someone wouldn't know what their spouse did for 40 hours a week. It is a big part of life. I don't mean the minute detail or an hourly blow by blow account, but the gist of it.