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This MSN Article is a good starting point, but is hardly comprehensive. There are jobs out there much tougher to explain to your parents than "Actuary" and if you don't know how to explain to your parents what a "User Interface Designer" is, you probably shouldn't be one. Here's a few jobs that should have been on the list: Pro Gamer Parents who don't get it: 88% How to explain it to your mom: Playing videogames at a professional level requires as much dedication and athleticism as any of those plebian "ball sports" dad watches all day. Erotic Fiction Writer Parents who don't get it: 75% How to explain it to your mom: Yes I'm using my English degree. I just got a thing published actually. Where? Uhhhhmmmmmmmmmmssmsmmmmm some magazine. It was a short story about pirates. Yeah there was a love interest. A couple actually. Oops, that's my other line, gotta go! Concept Artist Parents who don't get it: 79% How to explain it to your mom: I draw pictures for the tie in "Art Of" book for a popular movie or videogame. No, none of my artwork actually makes it into the film except as barely recognizable tangents. Butt Painter Parents who don't get it: 68% How to explain it to your mom: I paint people's butts. No, not pictures of butts like, I literally put paint on their butt. Yes, people pay for that. God! Mom! No I won't paint yours! Jesus... I dunno when I'll be up there to visit again, it's a busy season down here.
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Applewhite posted:Butt Painter should be 50%, every dad is going to understand that
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I'm a trans* prostitute and my dad definitively doesn't get it
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honestly most moms would understand that too
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I'm a mechanic and I get paid a flat rate for hours turned, so yes, If I go to work and there is no work to do, I have to stay and not get paid. It's kind of tough to explain to anyone
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Systems Analyst Parents who don't get it: 90% How to explain it to your mom: I analyze systems and write up reports based on my findings. No, I'm not a software programmer, other people design the software and I analyze it. How? poo poo... it's super complicated, uhh, okay there's this thing called IEEE standards and...
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There was a Goon on here with a thread about being a glory hole attendant (I guess that's what they are called?). Anyway, that would be a rough one to explain.
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moderating forums.somethingawful.com
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Professional GBS poster.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Lighting stand in for porn shoots.
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Prodigal T-REX posted:I'm a trans* prostitute and my dad definitively doesn't get it So am I, and yes, your dad gets it often.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:07
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i write for xojane and they dont get it
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especially the 2000 word article i wrote about them ruining my life by not giving me enough kale as a child
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Frog Act posted:i write for xojane and they dont get it IT HAPPENED TO ME: MY PARENTS READ MY XOJANE WRITINGS
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Candymaker Parents who don't get it: 66.6% How to explain it to your mom: No, it not like cupcake wars, No, I can't make you whatever truffle you want. No, I don't have a 'candy store'. We are a factory where people are the machines. Leroy Diplowski fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Candymaker Can you make me a hard candy dildo that I can gently caress myself with?
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Mad Monk posted:There was a Goon on here with a thread about being a glory hole attendant (I guess that's what they are called?). Anyway, that would be a rough one to explain. during college I worked in a sex shop because it was hard to find another place that would pay me to spend 80% of my time studying. one of my jobs was to go into the back area and unfuck the video machines if some perv came up complaining they were broken. anyway, I didnt have to lie to my parents about it because they are old hippies and thought it was hilarious (my old man was constantly reminding me not to bend over while I was working in the back) but my grandmother is religious, so to this day she thinks I worked my way through college at a "bookstore"
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Applewhite posted:Erotic Fiction Writer I'm pretty sure plenty of moms would understand erotic fiction writers, actually, considering that moms are that genre's main demo
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nutranurse posted:I'm pretty sure plenty of moms would understand erotic fiction writers, actually, considering that moms are that genre's main demo Yeah but it's different when it's your mom. I don't want my mom reading the gross stuff I write.
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Applewhite posted:Yeah but it's different when it's your mom. I don't want my mom is reading the gross stuff I write. i mean, i'd only really be weirded out if the erotic fiction i wrote was really weird--like if i wrote pirate-themed erotic novels then whatever, but if my specialty was gay thug twincest? 
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Ghost Hunter.
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Applewhite posted:Lighting stand in for porn shoots. The guy who gets cornholed by the shemales in trans-porn.
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I made my fortune scamming people on kickstarter *explains concept of Kickstarter to parents for 5 hours*
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I delete dicks off the internet all day. Literally I see like 400 different dongs an hour, 6 to 8 hours a day. My mother thinks I code for a living or something.
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veedubfreak posted:Hand. of the King?
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im an internet batman hired by the goverment to take down child porn rings using my brilliant undercover detective skills. my work is so super-duper secret that I can't tell anyone, not even my parents or spouse (because I guess my parents might be secret pedophile agents or something) if anyone witnesses me doing my work I have to lie and tell them I'm a pedophile. yes it's a hard life, but someone has to help those kids 
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I teach science. My mom, a severely wedged fundamentalist, can't understand how I got involved in such an ungodly career. Most of my relatives have jobs associated with the church (3 of my cousins are youth pastors.)
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poo poo poster i just post im gay and insult the op. Yes mom, i make money. Christ, just leave me alone, ok! also, i need some cash to buy some space ships.
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burritolingus posted:Elder React To Millennial Jobs Yeah well, if I where the malignant tumor on the societal body that is middle management, I would shut the gently caress up and not judge.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Professional cuck Quite a meme you got there sonny
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I thought a butt painter would be someone who painted with their butt 
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