When Twitter user Louie (@Mantia) started an eye-opening thread by asking the internet “What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?” people immediately shared facts on the work they do and as a result, they dismissed the common misconceptions about their jobs.
Hopefully, these posts will shed some light on various professions and respect each other’s work along the way.
Archaeologists don't deal with dinosaurs and few of us ever excavate abroad.
— Martin Rundkvist (@mrundkvist) July 2, 2018
librarians do, in fact, still exist
— Cat Jones (@__ccaatt__) July 2, 2018
That being great at Math doesn't necessarily mean you can teach it well. The whole process entails knowing the concepts, using the correct pedagogical tools/methods to teach the concept & knowing how students learn. Also, that one method may work one day and not at all the next.
— Ella (@laminating_bg) July 2, 2018
Teaching is an incredibly hard skill to learn and requires way more ongoing training than non-teachers (including many college profs, alas) think it does.
— Lindsay (@lindstorian) July 2, 2018
Trademarks & copyrights aren't the same thing.
— kcvinweho (@kcvinweho) July 2, 2018
™️ You can file a trademark application with the @uspto online, costs a few hundred dollars. If others try to use it, you can take action based on your registration & also common law (use) rights. An IP attorney is very helpful for that.
— kcvinweho (@kcvinweho) July 2, 2018
Fungi are 1) not plants & 2) not just mushrooms.
Fungi are closer to animals than anything else & mushrooms = reproductive structure; The actual THING is a network that can span (literally) miles!
It's like pointing to a flower on a tree and saying "here's the whole plant!"— Lee Deininger (@lee_deininger) July 3, 2018
Programming has far less to do with math than people think. I am bad at math but I am great at language and associative thinking.
Not to mention this feeds into the stereotype of girls not being good at programming because they are not good at math. (both are nonsense of course)
— Daniëlle Suurlant (@DSuurlant) July 4, 2018
A). A mom doesn’t sit around all day doing nothing. B). A writer doesn’t sit around and do nothing. C). A mom who is a writer rarely can find enough time in the day to get everything accomplished.
— Jenny (@themightyscribe) July 2, 2018
Just because someone works in IT does not automatically mean they can diagnose or fix that problem with your home PC/broadband or create a website for you anymore than a Pharmacist can sew your arm back on.
— neilhwilliams #FBPE (@neilhwilliams) July 2, 2018
Mental health is just as important as physical health.
— Matt (@matthewmerez) July 3, 2018
My mum still thinks I draw everything with a pencil (I'm a 3D animator)
— Adam Turnbull (@animturnbull) July 4, 2018
As a PhD candidate in robotics who knows a (brilliant) ex-hairdresser: This person speaks the truth.
— Noam DePlume (@Diss_Ertation) July 4, 2018
You don’t have to use a fad diet or avoid whole food groups to eat healthy. That is, in fact, unhealthy. -Registered Dietitian
— Kathryn L, RD (@katylyonsrawr) July 4, 2018
You cannot revive anyone with CPR.
(The point of CPR is to keep oxygen circulating in the blood until someone gets there with a defibrillator.)
— Nicola Rowe (@nz_nicola) July 4, 2018
As a freelancer, my business only survives if I charge for my time.
— Steve Perry (@stevemarkperry) July 4, 2018
That physical therapy, immediately, is the Standard of Care for low back pain and produces better results in a more cost effective manner than opioids and diagnostic imaging. @endurancePTinMS #nonaddictive #savesmoney
— Niles Norris (@nilesnorris) July 4, 2018
