What do you work as?

**paul_oshea** · 27/11/2007, 10:31 AM

i have just seen a program on ( young ) carers, and anyone who says that its not a manly job is a knob. Particularly what it means to a young person, that person takes on a serious amount of responsibility and pressure at such a young age that even the most "manly of men" wouldn't near achieve.

**gustavo** · 27/11/2007, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Blue-Army

I'm thinking of doing IT next year after the Leaving Cert...What's it like?..Any tips?

Get used to posting on here a lot more than you are now !

**pete** · 27/11/2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Typical non civil servants

Yeah civil servants still stuck in 2001

**Battery Rover** · 27/11/2007, 11:01 AM

Stay at home dad who has a small business as a computer fix technican and a satellite TV engineer. Also dabble in farming as a means of being 99% self sufficient food wise

Will probably soon be full time / part time Athlone Town PRO and webmaster for www.athlonetownfc.ie depending on circumstances along with filming every home and away match this coming season.

**Raheny Red** · 27/11/2007, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Battery Rover

Will probably soon be full time / part time Athlone Town PRO and webmaster for www.athlonetownfc.ie depending on circumstances along with filming every home and away match this coming season.

Nice one, good luck with that

**ForzaWexford** · 27/11/2007, 12:10 PM

I'm in college. Probably going to do Accountancy exams after I get my degree. I work in a bookies over holidays and most weekends.

**Schlooooomp** · 27/11/2007, 2:07 PM

Has Anto McC actually posted what he does for a living, I can't see it anywhere, then again maybe all this office work has taken away my manly sense of sight

**Green Tribe** · 27/11/2007, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by Schlooooomp

Has Anto McC actually posted what he does for a living, I can't see it anywhere, then again maybe all this office work has taken away my manly sense of sight

LOL, maybe you'll see him on Saturday

**Raheny Red** · 27/11/2007, 2:45 PM

Originally Posted by ForzaWexford

I work in a bookies over holidays and most weekends.

Same. Easy number.

**Lim till i die** · 27/11/2007, 3:03 PM

Originally Posted by Schlooooomp

Has Anto McC actually posted what he does for a living, I can't see it anywhere, then again maybe all this office work has taken away my manly sense of sight

There's only patchy internet access on that ultimate fighter staffed oil rig

**KevB76** · 27/11/2007, 4:41 PM

Originally Posted by Anto McC

Thats what i'm talking about, fair play. Seriously though, we're 5 pages in and everyone works in an office or the likes, not one person is a builder or tradesman.

Does that mean we've debunked the popular theory that football is the working mans sport ?

**Anto McC** · 27/11/2007, 4:58 PM

Originally Posted by KevB76

Does that mean we've debunked the popular theory that football is the working mans sport ?

Thats what i was thinking when i first mentioned it.

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

There's only patchy internet access on that ultimate fighter staffed oil rig

Oh i see what you did there, thats funny

Originally Posted by Schlooooomp

Has Anto McC actually posted what he does for a living

No, i haven't and i won't. It's nobodys business.

**Schlooooomp** · 27/11/2007, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by Anto McC

No, i haven't and i won't. It's nobodys business.

Fair enough

Time to guess what Anto McC does for a living:
1. Beautician
2. Hairdresser
3. Montessori Teacher
4. Lingerie Model

5. Steel Worker (I remember the episode of The Simpsons when Homer brought Bart to the steel mill.)

I'm gonna go for Hairdresser

**Anto McC** · 27/11/2007, 5:17 PM

Your actually close with one of those.

**Bluebeard** · 27/11/2007, 5:27 PM

Lumberjacking is a very manly profession.

In fact, I know a song about it...

**Schlooooomp** · 27/11/2007, 5:41 PM

Originally Posted by Anto McC

Your actually close with one of those.

Right

Anyone want to try and narrow down the list and become more specific

**kingdom hoop** · 27/11/2007, 6:45 PM

Lim till i die, I'm just after noticing your reply to what apparently were my 'sexist' and 'twaddle' comments. I'm happy to classify your comments as more delightful bravura-revelling.

Funny, pertinent and worthy in places, but ultimately ruined, on this occasion, by gaudy accessories. I'd asked for your opinion - which turned out to be a good one. Then I outlined a few preliminary thoughts of mine, which you, instead of building on your own point, sought to disparage when your own argument was hardly complete itself. Hence the label, not all that pejorative, but just annoying when 'debating'. Had you just looked at your own viewpoint you might have realised it was an over-simplistic way to characterise what we were talking about, and would have saved me spelling out what should be pretty non-contentious.

The point is that obviously the mere fact of having a certain job doesn't inherently make one person more manly than another, or allow you to automatically state without knowing the people, 'oh a builder, now he's a proper man compared to a doctor'. Rather, I think it should've been obvious to you that certain occupations tend to be male or female dominated. Be it for congenital or life development/experience reasons a lot of jobs attract, or sometimes demand, males/females.

That's hardly sexist, just realistic, because what are traditonally male attributes are simply better suited to some jobs. That doesn't mean a woman couldn't do the job, just that they generally don't, because men on average would tend to do the job a bit better and there are other jobs that female characteristics would be more suited to. Division of labour and all that. I'd be pretty sure that was Anto's point, he was looking for examples of people in the more male-dominated jobs rather than the unisex ones that had been cropping up more regularly. I very much doubt he was trying to offend our manliness by questioning why few worked in traditionally male-orientated jobs.

**ForzaWexford** · 27/11/2007, 7:26 PM

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Same. Easy number.

Yeah it's handy enough. Good laugh too, talking to fellas about sport all day.

The thing is though I don't really like working Saturdays because the pay is fairly crap and I hate working Sundays (double-time) because it means I can't play Junior soccer. And I hate working during the summer because we stay open until 9.30.....!

**Schlooooomp** · 27/11/2007, 7:27 PM

Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Lim till i die, I'm just after noticing your reply to what apparently were my 'sexist' and 'twaddle' comments. I'm happy to classify your comments as more delightful bravura-revelling.

Funny, pertinent and worthy in places, but ultimately ruined, on this occasion, by gaudy accessories. I'd asked for your opinion - which turned out to be a good one. Then I outlined a few preliminary thoughts of mine, which you, instead of building on your own point, sought to disparage when your own argument was hardly complete itself. Hence the label, not all that pejorative, but just annoying when 'debating'. Had you just looked at your own viewpoint you might have realised it was an over-simplistic way to characterise what we were talking about, and would have saved me spelling out what should be pretty non-contentious.

The point is that obviously the mere fact of having a certain job doesn't inherently make one person more manly than another, or allow you to automatically state without knowing the people, 'oh a builder, now he's a proper man compared to a doctor'. Rather, I think it should've been obvious to you that certain occupations tend to be male or female dominated. Be it for congenital or life development/experience reasons a lot of jobs attract, or sometimes demand, males/females.

That's hardly sexist, just realistic, because what are traditonally male attributes are simply better suited to some jobs. That doesn't mean a woman couldn't do the job, just that they generally don't, because men on average would tend to do the job a bit better and there are other jobs that female characteristics would be more suited to. Division of labour and all that. I'd be pretty sure that was Anto's point, he was looking for examples of people in the more male-dominated jobs rather than the unisex ones that had been cropping up more regularly. I very much doubt he was trying to offend our manliness by questioning why few worked in traditionally male-orientated jobs.

Not to put too fine a point on it but you are talking out of your hoop

Any number of people pointed out that they work in various aspects of IT, myself included. You should know that IT is absolutely a male dominated area. In fact I can cite any number of examples where there is not a single female working in the IT department, Anto McC did not consider this manly work, hence the argument put forward in your last paragraph is moot.

**strangeirish** · 27/11/2007, 9:08 PM

Originally Posted by Schlooooomp

Any number of people pointed out that they work in various aspects of IT, myself included. You should know that IT is absolutely a male dominated area. In fact I can cite any number of examples where there is not a single female working in the IT department, Anto McC did not consider this manly work, hence the argument put forward in your last paragraph is moot.

He might have been referring to the TIT department, which is female dominated.