HG real-world jobs - euphemisms or what?
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Sobaditsgood

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have been curious about this in years past and am still wondering - what's the deal with these people's jobs in the real world? In a few cases it's straightforward, like Gerry being a middle school teacher. Okay, everybody knows what that is. Or a firefighter. Okay, gotcha. But how about stuff like "marketing representative" or "real estate appraiser"? Marketing rep could mean someone who works in a basement telemarketing place making minimum wage, real estate appraiser is an actual job title - but has also been used by trump-up much less vaulted positions. With some of these people, the combination of their youth and seeming lack of general 'smartness' just makes me wonder how often the job titles get a re-working for the show. Also, ever notice how many 'bartenders' turn up on these reality shows? What's the scoop on bartending: Is it like the catch-all job for people who aren't all that bright or skilled, and neither good looking or talented enough to make it as a real star, but yet better looking than average meaning people like to look at them so will come into a bar and buy drinks?? I mean, what's the deal with all the bartenders?

And relative youngsters like Amy, early 20's and she seems to have a little on the ball as far as brains go, but on the other hand she's not exceptionally bright that I've noticed. Real estate appraiser, at that age? I'd buy 'receptionist in a real estate office' but I don't know about the other. Same thing with Chiara - I can't imagine her in a job interview for a 'real' job, being taken seriously. She just ain't got much going on upstairs. I *can* imagine her sleeping her way into a job or flirting her way into one.

Just curious if anyone else wonders about what these people really do in their daily lives.

Jello

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Amy was pretty good at both challenges that required appraisal (i.e. "taking inventory") (she came in 2nd to M. last night and noticed the oar was missing from the wall in the luxury challenge).

Hardywins

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Miss Amy is very intelligent and has some education. That and some training is all it takes to become a "certified real estate appraiser" which is not much different from a real estate sales agent. The job is mostly using computers to find comparison properties in the MLS database and then write up appraisals. A residential appraisal only costs a couple hundred dollars while commercial properties can cost many hundreds or even thousands to be appraised. She may have picked up on the field by association with a friend or her father.

Tonya's "retail sales specialist" means that she demonstrates the application of cosmetics and that she is a cosmetic sales clerk at the mall.

You can't blame any of these people for seeking an alternative source of income.

Halfunit

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Years ago in high school, a good friend told people he was a "hydro-porcelain technician".


He washed dishes... :)

Sobaditsgood

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the specifics on 're appraiser' Hardywins. I don't get the live feeds, only read the stuff posted here on the boards and know what I see on TV and I hadn't seen any evidence that Amy was especially bright or seemed interested in something like real estate. Your comment about her maybe getting into the field through her father or a family friend sounds very plausible, happens with lots of folks, why not her?

Can't tell if you are being facetious (heh) about Tonya and cosmetics but if that's really what she does, I find it a bit scary - I mentioned in another thread that she has "those eyebrows" like certain women have that just look "hard" to me, and in general her makeup is trampy, to me. Not saying that just because she has the b**bs thing going on, honestly her made-up face always looks low class to me, some women just seem to have that look no matter how costly the cosmetics or how carefully they're applied. I don't know why it is. Nicole from last year looked that way to me also, I learned that she had tatooed eyebrows which explained that part of it, but the rest of her makeup was the same way to me, made her look cheap/sleazy somehow even though she too was known to boast about all the $$$$ the man in her life had so presumably it wasn't that she used cheap products (which are sometimes better anyway, in cosmetics!) or that she couldn't afford to have someone show her how to apply them "correctly." Not to be too deep or anything, but I really have started to think there's just something inside some people that makes their outer shell look a certain way regardless of what they try to do to alter it. (This might explain why people who are technically "plain" looking sometimes just seem to glow or otherwise attract folks to them.)

But per your final comment, no I cannot blame any of them for seeking an alternate source of income... though I think as in years past for some of them the objective is as much about parlaying the experience into FAME as in temporary fortune. (silly people...)

Hardywins

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 03:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tonya has discussed, in fact that she works in cosmetic sales as recentlyas this afternoon during the PrettyDumb Girls Seduction Plotting Session. The objective of cosmetic sales is to encourage the thick application of as much cosmetic as possible, including pancakes, etc. Some of the most overdone women that I have ever met were cosmetic sales ladys or Mary Kay traveling sales ladies. Goes with the territory.

Manicpanic

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 06:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Back in college I worked taking orders at a catalogue. My official title was "Fashion Consultant/Representative". It was a nothing job. The most "consulting" I did was ask if the customer wanted the matching panties or to inform them in the patented perky salesgirl voice that t-shirts were buy 2 get 1 free. Good money, hideous job.