What do your family think about your job?

[Spinneret]

Not bothered mine

 

[tvguy]

What job? I'm retired.

 

[Meriweather]

What job? I'm retired.

We are too

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I'm disabled now, but when my career was as a freelance illustrator and product designer, everyone who didn't live in my house thought it was sort of cool. They didn't see the long hours I put in, or the copious notes I'd get from the companies I designed for asking for changes or re-dos. My name never went on any of my output, either...everything went under the company name. I guess it was cool to be able to do what I trained for most of my life, but the actual daily jobbing was anything but.

 

[White Cat]

They like it.

 

[mrodgers]

Well, my oldest knows all about where I work as she did 3 years summer help, then was going to do full time as she only had 1 class left, but she had to leave due to harrassment of her and her boyfriend (also works here). She wouldn't tell me what was going on and told me she didn't want me losing my job.

Worked out well, she's making twice the money in less hours driving doordash.

Mom still doesn't understand I am not a pencil pusher and run equipment out on the floor. She thinks I sit in an office.

The ex, well she thought I should go out and get 2 more part time jobs rather than her go to work.

Brother thinks I'm killing it because he can't hold a job at all and just follows whatever girlfriend he has at the time. So he compares my crappy paying job to no job at all.

No one but my oldest daughter knows what I do.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Nobody ever wants to talk about it with me because it sounds SO dull and unexciting. Even when I think something interesting has happened and want to share, they are like *yawn*. I guess nobody else thinks discussing loan documents etc... is stimulating conversation

 

[Jennasis]

They don't understand how I'm able to do it.

 

[mylilnikita]

Ugh.
I work in the hospitality industry and I worked a lot when my dd growing up as I was a single mom.
Then stayed home and took care of my mom for years.
After she passed I went back to the hospitality industry was at my last company a little over 3 years. I wasn’t a supervisor or manager but I was working 6 days at week and stressing. History has repeated itself because now it’s my granddaughter here and I was working 6 days a week and helping other departments but once again you do what you have to do.
I now have a new job still doing basically at the old one but certain things I don’t do there so way less stress and more money.
Before I left old job I took off for some vacation days and spent time with them. Then we got on each other’s nerves lol.