So you're a fireman! Or a lawyer! Or a.....
By mommyboo
@mommyboo (13174)
United States
October 1, 2008 12:21pm CST
What do these words mean to you? If you hear someone is a fireman do you automatically assume they are something special? Does what someone does for a living mean more than just plain who they are as a person?
I am stumped as to why people would be all over somebody for their job title or status, even if that person is .... not a nice person. I have never been this way. I don't think that a job makes a person, for some people it is a career and something they like, but it doesn't make them worth more than somebody else. It doesn't elevate them to special favors. For many other people a job is just a source of money.
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5 responses
@hiddenwing (3719)
• China
2 Oct 08
A job doesn't always make a person. Sometimes, it does make some sense. If u work as something, at least u have had long fight for it. During the progress, u know your responsiblity, u have to work hard to earn it. Thus, it may change people a little bit so as to be who he or she is now. I don't think lawyer are always impartial. If one is right, the other one is wrong. So, at least 50% of the lawyers were telling lies. On the other hand, they are not all liars. A fireman is not so special. One of my high school classmates is a fireman now. He was a naughty boy. Acutally, he did a lots of ridiculous things in my high school. I doubted he would be qualified. However, people can change. I hope he will effectively put out the fire. Not all doctors save live wholesouledly, so far as I know. Well, some doctors are really great. Every coin has two sides. What makes sense is not a job title, but who she or he really is.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
4 Oct 08
I just wish somebody who believes some people in certain job titles are somehow better based on the job title would respond. It tends to be mostly women and I am almost sure it's based on the whole 'hero' aspect or the fact that men in these professions - like a trifecta of sorts - firemen, policemen, military - HAVE to be in reasonably good shape and often these are majorly attractive, fit men anyway - anyway these women just go nuts when finding out they are one of these professions! I had been joking that I would get a fireman shirt and have my husband wear it and see what happens. He is not a fireman but if something happened, then I would KNOW. 
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
2 Oct 08
Hi mommyboo! You are right about some people being impressed
with someones job title. I know for one I'm surely not! I
worked with lawyers for 20 years and I am not impressed!
In fact they are the lowest of the low! The are nasty,
demanding, whiney, cranky, annoying and ungrateful! They
have no respect for the people who do most of their work
for them~their Secretarys! I don't care what your job is.
It is just that, a job! It doesn't mean that you are better
then me, it may mean you get a bigger check them me but
better no way! But, there are people that are fooled by
certain titles or professions that's for sure. I worked
in a Business Membership Organization where I was constantly
involved in business meetings that catered to high powered
executives of large corporations, Senators, Councilman,
even the Governors of NYS (who I worked with years before
when he was just and attorney at the same law firm as me).
It was fun, but I still felt like they were just people!
There were no body guards, no big deal. Just a big dinner
meeting and lots of long speeches. Just a money making
thing! The point is to me I guess I'm not easily impressed!
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
4 Oct 08
I am not either. People are people. I feel the same way about celebrities - maybe they are all over the news and tv and tabloids but bottom line they are people. They still get tired and hope for a decent hotel and would love to know a good place to grab a bite to eat and places in town to avoid lol. Well, at least the ones who are somewhat normal and don't think they are better than everybody. I feel I am equal to everybody simply for the status of being human. I'm not impressed if someone has a prestigious job title or they went to school for 12 years or they make 30 million dollars a year. They probably get just as excited as I do if something they have been waiting for is about to happen, they get just as disgusted as me if their dinner arrives and their steak is raw in the middle, and when their tv blows out and it's too late to go to replace it, they probably sulk too. There is nothing more precious than their own children, they want to talk too and not just listen, and the economy concerns affect them too. Yep, I am not impressed nor am I in awe. I could easily be them with an easy ID switcheroo!
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
5 Oct 08
You made some excellent points here for sure. Just because someone has an important job of some type, and making a decent amount of money so a lot of times the people think they are better than everyone else, when it reality the position goes to their head and usually a lot of them become Big headed and think they are better than everyone else, usually forgetting about the Small people underneath them and where they came from. It is sad that this is such a Power trip, and people are this way for sure, but it happens. Maybe someday life can change and people just realize they are a person no matter what position they have in life and there are people out there who do matter.
@Mare73 (1335)
• United States
1 Oct 08
The only time a job title matters to me is when you see a 20 something year old person and he/she is the director of some department or something. I don't give them any more respect than someone else, I just think it's interesting. I also admire women in CEO, CFO, VP, etc...positions. Women have come along way. BUT sometimes, you have to watch the little caniving *itches! Sometimes women let their power get to their head!
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
4 Oct 08
I do feel that if someone very young is in a position of power over many other people who are much older - there needs to be an explainable reason for it - AND the young person still needs to be respectful. I'm not saying they have to bow down to the older folks but they can't go around acting like Paris Hilton, for instance and state that their job status or title justifies it!
Respect is earned - civility is still important among everybody regardless of position, age, gender, but as long as there is a reason to show somebody extra respect, then it is fairly given. It should not be a given, especially if it is demanded without reason.
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
1 Oct 08
For most people, a job is just their source of income. There are nasty people in every profession, so I don't think anything special about them just because of what they do to earn a living. At the same time, I don't look down on someone because of what they do for a living either. Maybe that's because I spent so much of my life as a custodian 
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
4 Oct 08
Hehe. A dollar earned washing dishes is the same as a dollar earned personal shopping which is the same as a dollar earned pressing buttons at NASA and the same as a dollar earned recycling bottles at a recycling plant lol.
The money has the same value, you just may make more money in some fields vs others.
