Most Humble Brag Profession

[mdk2isu]

Sports writers – they are always writing articles about this event they covered or that event they covered, how they were texting this coach or that player, how they had to travel to Maui, or Florida, or LA to cover the team, etc. Right @ChrisMWilliams?

 

[Tre4ISU]

Farmers are plenty guilty of a good humble brag.

I'll humble brag at times about being tired during planting or harvest season.

People complaining about how much income tax they had to pay is common.

I asked one of our neighbors why he still uses a 50 year old tractor around the farm - he said he couldn't afford a newer one because he had so many farmland payments to make. I thought this was funny and pretty clever, and definitely a humble brag.

And smart.

 

[DeereClone]

I dont know of one farmer in my county that doesnt have more than one 50 year old tractor. What do you run augers with? we have 5 50+ year old tractors and wouldnt sell one of them.

I plant with a 4440 so I am not afraid of using older stuff. This guy plants with a 4020 and a 6 row 7000 planter. Owns 1,000 acres - has to rent about half of it out because he won't spend money to get equipped to farm all of it. I was just giving him a hard time about buying a tractor with a cab as he was complaining about being on an open station tractor all day. His low investment in equipment has worked very well for him.

 

[Al_4_State]

I dont know if this is what you mean but as far as my interpretation of it, as follows (might be a "my location" thing

Nurses: Most girls I know are nurses for some reason. They all post the same stuff constantly about how important they are and how hard they work. 80% of them constantly post during work hours on fb and snapchat.

Volunteer Firefighters: nobody wants recognized as badly as a volunteer firefighter.

Farmers: I am a farmer. All my friends constantly e-brag about working 80-100 hours a week farming. If you are working that many hours during non harvest you are doing something wrong or in my friends case, you just dont want to be at home with your wife.

Worst of all.... Teachers: If I ever find a teacher that doesnt desperately crave attention and acknowledgement it will be the first. I feel like this is more prevalent in new to the profession teachers. Teachers think they have the hardest jobs ever. They should all have to spend their summers digging ditches.

honorable mention: linemen and windmill workers. All of the above jobs are important, people just want to be more important than they really are

While you're right about both of these professions being humble braggers (I should know - I'm both), I can easily see how some farmers are working 80 hours per week outside of harvest and doing it just fine. Planting is just as crazy, time-wise, and there will be plenty of weeks throughout the summer where spraying is that time intensive.

Regarding the volunteer fire thing, I get annoyed with other guys on my department posting things on Facebook about how underappreciated firemen are. That's ridiculous. I can't think of a more universally beloved/respected position. Nobody has a vendetta against firemen. Nobody. I try to make a point of not bringing it up on social media. There's a fine line between being proud of what you do, and being obnoxious.

 

[Al_4_State]

Winner Winner. Drive through any rural town in Iowa and you will see at least one person that not only has the volunteer fireman license plate, but has his blue flashing light permanently mounted on the dash of his 1988 F-150. Despite the fact that he probably only makes 4-6 call per year.

Hey man, I have a 2000 F150. Get it right.

 

[wxman1]

Engineers: Well over 90%of those that I have worked with are great but every once in a while you will get a doozy. I don't work with him but we have a family friend who works for Alliant as some kind of efficiency improvement dude. He is constantly posting on FB about how many steps or flights of stairs he climbed not to mention how he put in yet another 12+ hour day. There was also one time that he openly criticized others including interns for not doing the same.

 

[DurangoCy]

I don't have any a FB account, this thread has not changed my mind.

 

[Judoka]

Nurses: Most girls I know are nurses for some reason. They all post the same stuff constantly about how important they are and how hard they work. 80% of them constantly post during work hours on fb and snapchat.

Not sure if I'm with you on the rest of them, but yeah, the nurses on my facebook want you to know about it. I need to start a nurse memes website because I could probably make bank.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I dont know if this is what you mean but as far as my interpretation of it, as follows (might be a "my location" thing

Nurses: Most girls I know are nurses for some reason. They all post the same stuff constantly about how important they are and how hard they work. 80% of them constantly post during work hours on fb and snapchat.

Volunteer Firefighters: nobody wants recognized as badly as a volunteer firefighter.

Farmers: I am a farmer. All my friends constantly e-brag about working 80-100 hours a week farming. If you are working that many hours during non harvest you are doing something wrong or in my friends case, you just dont want to be at home with your wife.

Worst of all.... Teachers: If I ever find a teacher that doesnt desperately crave attention and acknowledgement it will be the first. I feel like this is more prevalent in new to the profession teachers. Teachers think they have the hardest jobs ever. They should all have to spend their summers digging ditches.

honorable mention: linemen and windmill workers. All of the above jobs are important, people just want to be more important than they really are

Second on teachers. My sister is a teacher and I can't even have a normal conversation with her without her talking about how stressful her job is or how she can't wait to be off for the summer and relax. Give me a ******* break, everyone has stress in their jobs, I just elect to not discus it with anyone willing to listen.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Not sure if I'm with you on the rest of them, but yeah, the nurses on my facebook want you to know about it. I need to start a nurse memes website because I could probably make bank.

My MIL and SIL were both nurses. Between just the two of them they've saved more lives than Superman, the peace corps and the polio vaccine combined.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

Anyone in military. And their families.

*sulks back into corner*

 

[Tre4ISU]

While you're right about both of these professions being humble braggers (I should know - I'm both), I can easily see how some farmers are working 80 hours per week outside of harvest and doing it just fine. Planting is just as crazy, time-wise, and there will be plenty of weeks throughout the summer where spraying is that time intensive.

Regarding the volunteer fire thing, I get annoyed with other guys on my department posting things on Facebook about how underappreciated firemen are. That's ridiculous. I can't think of a more universally beloved/respected position. Nobody has a vendetta against firemen. Nobody. I try to make a point of not bringing it up on social media. There's a fine line between being proud of what, and being obnoxious.

I agree. Yeah, some farmers have some time to spare and some have a lot of spraying and stuff done for them but I don't think people realize the amount of time a lot of them spend doing things no one notices like spraying fence lines, picking rock, mowing bin sites or building sites, hauling grain if they store it, and I don't think people realize the amount of "business" stuff that takes place in today's world between FSA paperwork and insurance and then you add on banking in today's environment and it's really not just a few months out of the year. Then, if they have anything to do with livestock, that's a whole other matter.

 

[madguy30]

I would say doctors but there is no humble to their brag.

I'm kind of the same way with teachers.

You'd think there'd be humility in guiding those who need guidance, inspiring, etc. but I find many to be on a soap box often and a need to brag about how great they are at managing kids with tricky behaviors.

 

[Cydkar]

My humble brag is that I don't go on Facebook. That's probably just an out-right brag but whatever.

If I did go on Facebook, I'd probably mention the Crossfit humble brag dumbasses. Crossfit isn't a profession so...wrong thread.

 

[CycloneErik]

Anyone in military. And their families.

*sulks back into corner*

I almost said it. Thanks for taking that bullet.
And don't screw with our free meals on Veterans' Day.

 

[carvers4math]

I'm kind of the same way with teachers.

You'd think there'd be humility in guiding those who need guidance, inspiring, etc. but I find many to be on a soap box often and a need to brag about how great they are at managing kids with tricky behaviors.

When we lived in West Des Moines, I would agree with that. Now that we are in the boonies, the small town teachers are pretty humble. They also get paid less and usually have kids in the same school with our kids. We do get some of the worst doctors though. There is a waiting list for patients who want the best one we have. We tend to get ones who have lost their licenses in other states or went to med school in the Caribbean somewhere because they couldn't get into a US med school. And even with that quality, they won't take Medicaid patients because they are getting stiffed on the bill, so they expect those patients to drive a couple hours for medical care I guess.

 

[madguy30]

When we lived in West Des Moines, I would agree with that. Now that we are in the boonies, the small town teachers are pretty humble. They also get paid less and usually have kids in the same school with our kids. We do get some of the worst doctors though. There is a waiting list for patients who want the best one we have. We tend to get ones who have lost their licenses in other states or went to med school in the Caribbean somewhere because they couldn't get into a US med school. And even with that quality, they won't take Medicaid patients because they are getting stiffed on the bill, so they expect those patients to drive a couple hours for medical care I guess.

I can't speak for medical care, but I think at times in rural settings there may be more of a sense of contentment with the job. I've noticed in places like small town cafes, etc. that people have their job, it's enough to pay probably less for living expenses, and there's no reason to feel like they have to do more or bigger than they are.

I work with educators in a decent sized district...lots of one-upsmanship from the staff all the way up to the administrations.

Also a lack of problems solving skills/flexibility which doesn't fit since the purpose is to teach humility and problem solving to the kids.

More people should get experience substitute teaching or work in the food/service industry.

 

[1100011CS]

I dont know if this is what you mean but as far as my interpretation of it, as follows (might be a "my location" thing

Nurses: Most girls I know are nurses for some reason. They all post the same stuff constantly about how important they are and how hard they work. 80% of them constantly post during work hours on fb and snapchat.

Volunteer Firefighters: nobody wants recognized as badly as a volunteer firefighter.

Farmers: I am a farmer. All my friends constantly e-brag about working 80-100 hours a week farming. If you are working that many hours during non harvest you are doing something wrong or in my friends case, you just dont want to be at home with your wife.

Worst of all.... Teachers: If I ever find a teacher that doesnt desperately crave attention and acknowledgement it will be the first. I feel like this is more prevalent in new to the profession teachers. Teachers think they have the hardest jobs ever. They should all have to spend their summers digging ditches.

honorable mention: linemen and windmill workers. All of the above jobs are important, people just want to be more important than they really are

I find it odd that every single nurse I know smokes.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I would say doctors but there is no humble to their brag.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Anyone in military. And their families.

*sulks back into corner*

I was going to post this as well. I'm a veteran FWIW and reading all of the BS my fellow active duty friends post is absolutely exhausting. I just get tired of the sense of entitlement people have because they served there country. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of my service and the doors it has opened up for me but nobody held a gun to my head and made me sign on the dotted line. I actually feel sorry for some of my fellow veterans because they have outstanding educational benefits at their disposal and very few have used them to their advantage.