Does anybody else think this is silly?
 

Does anybody else ever think this is silly...

... people who say they are a musician, model, artist or photographer on their web profiles, when this isn't actually their job?

If you work five days a week in a shop and have a set of photographs of you taken by some amateur photographer once a month, you're a shopworker, not a model. If you sell houses for a living, and for a hobby you play in a band who have five songs and who play a gig once every two weeks, you are an estate agent, not a musician!

I'm a engineering research student, not a songwriter :p

Ok, pigeonholing people might be bad, but pigeonholing yourself in the wrong pigeonhole is even worse!

Who agrees, who disagrees???

Yes I agree with that but you could put like, "...who songwrites on the side." or whatever, that would be accurate.

Well, I spend more time cooking than writing songs, more time walking than cooking and more time sleeping than walking.

So in that order, it would be more accurate to say I'm a:

1. Research student.
2. Sleeper.
3. Walker.
4. Chef.
5. Coffee drinker.
6. Eater.
6. Songwriter.

What I mean is, I think your suggestion is much more appropriate than what people usually put. That's the kind of thing people should put, to not come off (to me anyway) as deluded wallies.

More sad than silly really...although, I would say that you're a musician, you write and play music, it may be a hobby or whatever, but you can do it, I for example can't. It's a bit different with other professions I think, one can't really call themselves a photographer if they take random shots that never get sold.

Stuff like that belongs under interests or hobbies.

But most people probably don't take the people who put that on their website serious anyway.

Just check my profile, I actually AM an actress.

Well, if you're a student and you spend a lot of your time doing acting and you do well in it then your description seems right, student 'actress' as you put it.

Are you very good at acting then?

Meh, I personally don't mind, mine used to say Pinecone Removal Specialist and Rape Artist Extraordinaire.... but those are both true.

That is a hell of a thing to have on your CV. The other boys must be jealous.

They are. For a while they felt that I didn't deserve the title, until I did a little demonstration and proved that I did.

And Rape Artist, that must be quite a beautiful thing, to have elevated it to the status of art.

I, sir, salute you. From a safe distance.

I made a television advert in the summer.

And my teachers suggested that I do it as my job :o

Really? What kind of advert? That's good.

Well, if you do try to make it in acting then make sure you really, really, go for it. Actors and actresses are not in very high demand and unless you're one of the best (or best connected at least) then it looks like it ends up being boring, badly paid and very, very unsecure. Like being a builder, but when you do get a job then you're still paid a pittance.

But if you're extremely good, work extremely hard and get to grips with how the business side works early on, then it could be pretty nice.

Yeah I met a woman in London who said as soon as I get my braces off (June) than I should ring her because she knows lots of people 'in the business'.

Haha the advert was to promote my theatre group. It was a **** advert and only on local TV but it is a start.

Yeah, when you know over 23 techniques in the field of raping, then it truly is an art.

I think that its acceptable to say

"I am a such and such" if you enjou doing it, it makes you happy, its a hobby

But to say I am a professional such and such when your making money flipping burgers is not legit.