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Explaining my remote job to my host's family
Their confused faces made me feel like an alien.
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williamo276mo ago
Honestly I get why they're confused! My grandma still thinks I can fix her toaster because I work with tools. Some jobs you just can't picture unless you see someone in uniform or at a shop. If your work is just on a laptop, it looks like you're just messing around online to them. That whole world of digital work is totally foreign if you've punched a clock your whole life. They're not trying to make you feel weird, it just doesn't compute in their older view of how jobs work.
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sanchez.sean5mo ago
But what if your job is fixing toasters on a laptop?
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baker.willow6mo ago
My friend's mom saw him working from home and assumed he was unemployed. She kept asking when he was going to get a real job with a proper office. It's just a totally different world to some people.
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