What's an irritating misconception about your line of work?

[Nakosis]

I'll start. I've had a few jobs in my career. My last two jobs were in software engineering and education.

People think being a software engineer means you can troubleshoot hardware problems.

People think that if you're a professor or teacher, student performance is directly correlated to instructor efficacy. You'll get hounded over the 10% that fail your class rather than the 10% that get A's.

That as a retiree, you sit around the house doing nothing all day.

Oh..., yeah, that part is kind of true.

 

[Spice]

Retired retail exec. here. The misconception being I was a college graduate that knew nothing about real day-to-day store-life. In actuality I hit retail as a part-time stocker with high school only, and worked, and sacrificed my way to low-level Corp. Exec. over many years, just to work with a bunch of (by no means all) college graduates that knew nothing about store-life. LOL

And, no, the customer is NOT always right!

 

[ChristineM]

That as a retiree, you sit around the house doing nothing all day.

Oh..., yeah, that part is kind of true.

I wish

 

[ChristineM]

And, no, the customer is NOT always right!

In France the customer is never right. ;-)

 

[Altfish]

I respect civil engineers but there is the old joke God must have been a civil engineer because when he created humans he put a sewage line through a recreational area.

No, Civil Engineers wouldn't have done that. We are intelligent designers!

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

People think being a software engineer means you can troubleshoot hardware problems.

Don't get me started on that one.....


"i'm a software engineer" is a phrase that somehow makes people think you can repair or trouble shoot just about any device that has a chip in it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And, no, the customer is NOT always right!

Definitely true.

 

[Quagmire]

In France the customer is never right. ;-)

It was like that in the carnival too.