If your grandchildren would describe what you do/did for a living, how would they describe it?
I work with 3 computer screens with boxes and numbers showing, and my hands are like an octupus with phone, radio, keyboard and mouse. If all the boxes and numbers are behaving, sometimes I get a chance to chat on GN!
My granddaughter, when she was describing what people in the family did, finished with "and Nanna works at the church". I am involved with several children's activities there so every time she attended one I was there 'working'. I think she thought I was there all the time!
Grandma makes sure that great big businesses numbers add up and that they aren’t hiding their money from the government. If they are hiding their money, grandma makes them pay loads to the government. She visits them all over the country and sometimes takes the train under the sea.
Before I retired my grandchildren thought one of my two jobs was spent playing games with babies and toddlers making funny noises and tickling their ears. They were right it was paediatric audiology.
She read books, talked about books, got people to talk about books and write about books in their own books. Then she read their books about the books and put scores on their books and gave their books back to them. She wrote down their scores in her own book.
Grammaretto that was her explanation when she was asked at school what her DF did. "He works for the Queen" was all she could think of to say, she was only 6 years old, bless her. And she really did think he was a spy. Yes he did work for a highly confidential government department and my lips are sealed. But he was no James Bond!
Granny helps adults from other countries communicate like us, because some of them want to work here and have wonderful skills but not the language qualifications. Many of them, though, do it just for fun.