<story><title>Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don&apos;t realize?</title><text>Inspired by PG&amp;#x27;s tweet -  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;paulg&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215673204125073408?s=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;paulg&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215673204125073408?s=19&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>The taxonomy of jobs that most people have in their minds is extremely simple (doctor, lawyer, teacher, builder, engineer, window cleaner, garbage collector, astronaut, ...) and is mostly based on a grade-school understanding of what kind of jobs people do.&lt;p&gt;But the reality is that there are &lt;i&gt;millions&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;i&gt;types&lt;/i&gt; of jobs, with incredible variety and specialisms, and the real content of a job is rarely captured in a job title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badtuple</author><text>Not only that, but the incredible depth of pretty much every field. Not every practitioner dives deep, but the masters of any job leave me speechless.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don&apos;t realize?</title><text>Inspired by PG&amp;#x27;s tweet -  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;paulg&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215673204125073408?s=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;paulg&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1215673204125073408?s=19&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>The taxonomy of jobs that most people have in their minds is extremely simple (doctor, lawyer, teacher, builder, engineer, window cleaner, garbage collector, astronaut, ...) and is mostly based on a grade-school understanding of what kind of jobs people do.&lt;p&gt;But the reality is that there are &lt;i&gt;millions&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;i&gt;types&lt;/i&gt; of jobs, with incredible variety and specialisms, and the real content of a job is rarely captured in a job title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>I fixed my mum&amp;#x27;s computer a few years back (cleaned up some adware and other stuff that was making it awful to use) and did a bunch of virus scans and cleanup etc. After a while she asked &amp;quot;Is this what you do for a job?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The conception of what happens inside our industry just isn&amp;#x27;t present in the wider population, and I imagine we&amp;#x27;re not unique in that.</text></comment>