Most Humble Brag Profession

[harimad]

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

Each of the professions listed is underpaid. (Edit: Well, farmers... not so much... lately. But it's cyclical!) They deserve all the recognition they can get.

 

[carvers4math]

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.

I have often griped about my douchebag brother-in-law, who updates the world on every kind of social media known to humanity with his Map My Run and every time he goes to his fitness center. He has some computer science degree and says he is an engineer. He travels a lot for work and claims he can't tell anyone where he is going for government security reasons. However, you can flipping tell where he is all the time because of his constant posting of his Map My Run. He actually wears some t-shirt that says something to the effect, "Engineers: we fix problems you are too dumb to even know you have." Last night, he actually posted on Facebook that he got in an argument with someone and verified his position with peer reviewed articles online. He simply can't get over himself.

However, with two adult sons who are engineers and have many friends who are as well, I do think brother-in-law is the exception and not the norm, and he would be arrogant no matter what his profession was. Most of my kids' friends are self-deprecating nerds.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I know several young chiropractors and they are constantly posting how bad medicine is and that everyone should go to the chiro before getting a prescription that will actually fix your problem.

 

[harimad]

I have often griped about my douchebag brother-in-law, who updates the world on every kind of social media known to humanity with his Map My Run and every time he goes to his fitness center. He has some computer science degree and says he is an engineer. He travels a lot for work and claims he can't tell anyone where he is going for government security reasons. However, you can flipping tell where he is all the time because of his constant posting of his Map My Run. He actually wears some t-shirt that says something to the effect, "Engineers: we fix problems you are too dumb to even know you have." Last night, he actually posted on Facebook that he got in an argument with someone and verified his position with peer reviewed articles online. He simply can't get over himself.

However, with two adult sons who are engineers and have many friends who are as well, I do think brother-in-law is the exception and not the norm, and he would be arrogant no matter what his profession was. Most of my kids' friends are self-deprecating nerds.

Look at the title I've got listed for myself. I always make sure to put "IT" or "Systems" or "Solution" or whatever in front of the word "Architect," just to make sure nobody confuses me with a real Architect. Same thing if my title was "IT Engineer." Yes, I'm good at math; yes, I took a few engineering courses. No, I'm not an engineer.

 

[wxman1]

I know several young chiropractors and they are constantly posting how bad medicine is and that everyone should go to the chiro before getting a prescription that will actually fix your problem.

Although not a perfect solution for everyone they can be right. We avoided my son having to get tubes by going to the Chiro (a well known respected one not the strip mall down the street guy).

 

[Triggermv]

I hate it when people ask me what I do simply because what I do doesn't define me similar to how a lot of people seem to define themselves by their jobs. However, I get that most of the time people ask simply because they don't know what else to ask when just meeting someone, so I fully understand. However, I also don't like that my job, an energy commodity trader, isn't one of those easy jobs like police officer to explain, so it inevitably always comes with more questions and answers that are many times a little hard for the listener to even comprehend. I get it. Lots of people also have jobs that even when you explain, it is like wat??? Therefore, when people ask what I do, I usually just say I work for a family business (its true) and hope for no further questions. However, if I do say I'm a commodity trader and depending on how I gauge the new listener's capacity for humor, when they always ask the follow up question of what do you trade? I answer drugs followed by complete silence, just to see their reaction. I guess I'm kind of weird like that...

 

[carvers4math]

Look at the title I've got listed for myself. I always make sure to put "IT" or "Systems" or "Solution" or whatever in front of the word "Architect," just to make sure nobody confuses me with a real Architect. Same thing if my title was "IT Engineer." Yes, I'm good at math; yes, I took a few engineering courses. No, I'm not an engineer.

You probably have a lot in common with him except you're not an arrogant jerk lol. He was a Marine, he makes sure people know that within a minute of meeting him. I found out from his Map My Run obsession he was on the campus where my son is a grad student, so asked son if Uncle contacted him when he was there. Yes, he did, he wanted my son to take him out to the college bars even though he is 45 years old. He didn't take it well when a coed told my son it was nice of him to take his "dad" out to the bars. Chewed her out for thinking he was old enough to think he was his dad (my husband is 13 years older than his youngest brother). Of course, he is also old enough to have fathered my oldest son (well just thinking about that creeps me out), but he thinks he looks much much younger because, well he works out all the time and is the finest physical specimen known to humanity, at least according to him. He once posted on Facebook two pictures comparing his physique in identical t-shirts except one was slim fit and the other was normal fit. Ok, I'm rambling, he clearly drives me nuts.

 

[carvers4math]

I hate it when people ask me what I do simply because what I do doesn't define me similar to how a lot of people seem to define themselves by their jobs.

This times a million. It seems like they will instantly judge you.

 

[DeftOne]

ITT: <insert profession of someone I am reluctantly friends with on Facebook and secretly despise>

 

[Cyclone.TV]

I own my own business. Between customers and employees being constant stresses and the long hours not helping things, I often have to go to my country club to golf 2-3 times a week to free myself. Sometimes it's so overwhelming that I'll grab a six-pack of beer to take with me on the course. So frustrating.

 

[Triggermv]

This times a million. It seems like they will instantly judge you.

I actually could care less about people judging me. My confidence in life doesn't come from others. I just don't like my work being a distraction to knowing my true character as a person. Therefore, when I die, if people are talking in my funeral about how great (or poor I guess) of an energy trader I was, I'd consider my life a failure. Ultimately, my faith in Christ is what I try to define my life by and I only hope my life reflects that to others.

 

[Cycsk]

It's such a pain when you are already seated in business and the FA comes back and asks if you want to move to first, amirite?

Am I doing it right?

I've got a few related to flying (each of which I have actually said):

"Darn, I got in the back of the Group 1 line. Now I will have to store my carry-on back in coach."

"The lay-flat seats in Business First on international flights make me sleep so much on the plane that I have really bad jet lag when I arrive."

"I always end the year with leftover drink vouchers for the plane because I get upgraded so often and they just give me the drinks for free."

"Too bad our connection time is so short. I won't have time to relax at the United Club."

 

[cloneu]

People who travel a lot for work talking about their trials and tribulations of travel.

"Of course I get the big suite when I am only here for two days"
"My flight is delayed 40 minutes and the American Airline Admirals Club is out of my favorite drink! SMH."
"The reward points for company xyz suck, they only covered my flight to Hawaii and half my hotel costs. Had to cut the trip from 10 days to 7 because of it."

 

[Doc]

The worst ones on my facebook are definitely the folks in the armed forces (and their spouses). It's also not so much their occupation as much as I didn't have a whole lot of respect for them prior to them joining the army. I'm friends with a few linemen and a forest fighter, but their stuff isn't bragging, it's just totally badass.

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

I'm going to throw anyone working in a non-profit into this conversation.

As a current executive of a non-profit the amount of humble brag that I run into on a daily basis is ridiculous. It like they had a choice to work for 25% less than market value and because they are so altruistic they chose to "serve the mission."

 

[Cycsk]

How about low-level campaign workers who referred to their job "with Hillary?"

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

The worst ones on my facebook are definitely the folks in the armed forces (and their spouses). It's also not so much their occupation as much as I didn't have a whole lot of respect for them prior to them joining the army. I'm friends with a few linemen and a forest fighter, but their stuff isn't bragging, it's just totally badass.

Wasn't going to be the first to bring up this group. Again, not all armed forces (and their spouses), I am specifically talking about those stationed state side after basic. If I didn't have any respect for you prior to you joining then don't expect me to all of the sudden have that respect unless you have deployed. If you are at the Rock Island Arsenal and you have never left the borders of the lower 48... sorry... you have a government job that requires you work out and you have not earned the same type of respect as someone who has deployed. Sorry, not sorry.

 

[madguy30]

People who travel a lot for work talking about their trials and tribulations of travel.

"Of course I get the big suite when I am only here for two days"
"My flight is delayed 40 minutes and the American Airline Admirals Club is out of my favorite drink! SMH."
"The reward points for company xyz suck, they only covered my flight to Hawaii and half my hotel costs. Had to cut the trip from 10 days to 7 because of it."

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I actually could care less about people judging me. My confidence in life doesn't come from others. I just don't like my work being a distraction to knowing my true character as a person. Therefore, when I die, if people are talking in my funeral about how great (or poor I guess) of an energy trader I was, I'd consider my life a failure. Ultimately, my faith in Christ is what I try to define my life by and I only hope my life reflects that to others.

Fantastic post

 

[SC Cy]

Glad you mentioned military.

One thing that bugs me to no end is everyone throwing out the term "Hero". A person's job does not constitute being called a hero. I know several police officers who are so far from hero status it's crazy. The military guy that never left South Carolina? Yeah, not a hero.