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There’s one question that trips us up. "What do you do for living" over a dinner table with some people we barely know either puts us on the defensive, or we paint it in the brightest colors possible only to realize it’s a lie. Describing something so obvious turns out to be out of our comfort zone, so what if we change the game rules?

“Poorly explain what you do for a living,” wrote Jeremy Padawer on Twitter, and guess what? People were more than happy to deliver some absurdly funny truth bombs. Like, watching tiny humans exit larger humans or taking used clothes from big people and making them right for smaller people. If it doesn’t make sense, read it again and wait for the “aaah!”

Below, we compiled some of the best responses from the thread to show that you don’t be so serious to reply to that tricky question.

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Bardhi's Dad
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not everyone can (or want to) be what that extremely dumb and dangerous maniacal clown is

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Robin DJW
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you mean that some people don't want to be dumb, dangerous maniacal clowns, or that some cannot or don't want to be POTUS? Or both?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Richard, You are absolutely ridiculous. Help and make changes? How in the Hades do you propose we do that? We don't have the power or authority to make the changes needed. That responsibility falls on the president. That is his job. And while he is employed by us citizens, he should not be watching TV and tweeting around the clock. You and I would be fired if we did it as habitually as he did. Also, the economy may be recovering SLIGHTLY faster than expected, but we are officially in a recession. The vaccine may be days away, but many respected medical experts AND the FDA itself are against approval for consumer use as they feel it has not received sufficient clinical trial to guarantee it's safe. Trump is blackmailing the FDA director for approval in order to get the vaccine out before election. Finally, the COVID death rate is not even close to the annual flu death rate. 162k more people have died from COVID so far. I suggest you put down the Kool-Aid and do some research.

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Steve Cruz
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TRUMPKIN: Orange outside, empty inside, should be tossed out in November.

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Full of Giggles
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3 years ago

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Sargundeep Singh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this about the golden-haired, peach-faced fairy? The one who's exceptionally intelligent and keeps his brains in a box.lol😂 Donald "fairy duck" Trump

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Linda Renk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

STFU and move to another country if you hate this one so much. We LOVE our President, who has fulfilled every promise and more!

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Sparky
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain, defeating ISIS, lowering drug prices, legalizing telehealth, cutting unnecessary regulations, renegotiating NAFTA, tax cuts . . . what country are you people living in?

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Harley Hoglin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What country are you talking about? He ran from ISIS, like the draft dodging coward that he is, drug prices are the highest of any first world country, broke the law by ending NAFTA(witch was real bad for the USA, but pushed and supported by both parties). Tax cuts that only helped the super rich same as under Reagan. Putting more of the tax burden on the working poor, and shrinking middle class. Trying to do away with the VA so veterans like me can't get health care, and openly said if re-elected will end Social Security and Medicare.

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So you would all like to be Socialist/commies with Biden?

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Logically Reasonable
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3 years ago

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And yet.........you sat around saying NOTHING, when the previous toxic, deadly, lying, cheating, Muslim loving, Chinese puppet, anti-American clown neglected this country for 8 years, shut down thousands of businesses and made MILLIONS of people homeless - that had to live in "tent cities", as well as selling off 1/3 of this country to the Chinese.....all while "golfing", or going on "vacation", and NEVER ONCE doing anything for this country.........well, yeah....he WAS trying his damndest to put the entire country in a depression!!

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Cant get through one Bored Panda list without seeing an "orange man bad" attention seeking post.

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Or be nominated for 4 Nobel Peace Prizes for amazing work in the middle east? YOu anti-trump people need to get your heads out of your collective behinds and focus on helping and encouraging rather than blaming. BTW, are you not watching TV and tweeting while thousands die and millions lose their jobs? that have you done about it? The economy has recovered far more than was expected, death rate of covid is comparable to the seasonal Flu and Trump has vaccines coming out any day now. Biden is garbage who did nothing in the 47 years hes been in office.

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JOB HOLDER: Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called AMERI-CAN, you and all your silly citi-zens. Thppppt! AMERICAN: What a strange person.

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Bored Panda reached out to the Twitter user who goes by Bitter Proffit from Nashville, Tennessee and works as a high school teacher.

When asked to poorly explain what he does for a living, @bitterproffit answered “I silently judge 18-year-olds for 5 hours a day, then I review their work and judge them again, but this time on a graded scale. I then make lists of my judgements of them. Plus, I get to discuss economics and US government all day.”

The response got 2.4k likes with many people guessing what his profession was. The teacher told us that part of his response was an inside joke with his students, “specifically former students who follow me on Twitter, about judging their work. They caught the reference.”

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When asked why so many people find the question irritating, @bitterproffit said that he, on the contrary, finds it an interesting conversation starter. “Although I’ve had jobs that were harder to explain than my current one,” he added.“

The best part of my job is the relationships I develop with my students. Senior year in high school is such a pivotal year in their lives and I feel privileged that they allow me to share and be a part of their experiences in their successes and their setbacks,” the teacher said.

He also concluded that being a high school teacher is simply “the best job on the planet for me,” and we couldn’t be happier to see the man happy in his shoes!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My job is to be judged by him and make my parents pay him for it. Then forget what was taught and do it all over again next year till i get a promotion.

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Harold Summer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A big thanks to career counselors. They're correct. A lot of wannabe physicians aren't suited for the responsibility and will be miserable at best, dangerous at worst.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I understand why I always ended up playing cards in stead of working on the spreadsheet.

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