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And to what extent do they either portray it accurately, or distort it?

Usually just snippets in a Best Buy commercial...without all the whining about how an accessory cost 25$.

Ex-cop, probably the most overexposed profession?

But what I find interesting, is the extent to which the media creates a mythology that feds buy into and try to exert themselves, so no a lot of it is wrong, especially the technical stuff, but a large amount is spot on and moreover if it isn't true it starts to become relevant simply because it's been portrayed that way.

Though I was re-reading Virtual Light recently and was impressed with the accuracy there, a lot of nice small touches that rung true.

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Civil engineer, and never, to my knowledge. Mechanical engineer pops up sometimes, but civil engineer? I've never seen it, much less accurately.

Also, while we're on the subject: people we call "architects" are actually "architectural engineers," because minus the engineering part, it's practically an art degree, and that's usually not what people are referring to.

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Childcare/Nanny. It's not as hectic as shows like to make it out to be, but that's pretty true about life in general in media. Also there is no chance of weird romances between myself and the parents. That would be so awkward and inappropriate.

Edna Mode is the only portrayal I can think of and hahahahaha nope.

Never. People don't want to hear about day cares for the elderly. Which is stupid because it would make an excellent sitcom.

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Computer programming.

I don't think it's actually featured by itself as just "programming" that much. Pretty much every time it gets brought it gets brought up with hacking, which - even though I'm not as knowledgeable on that specific side of things - is still laughable. I mean, viruses aside, I'm not sure I've ever seen two of the most common hacking methods (phishing and SQL injection) featured as a legitimate way to go about things.

Cat Street handled it pretty well. At one point the main programmer's computer gets unplugged and he gets mad at losing hours and hours of work which was kind of just like "you did not save at ALL during these past several hours? how were you compiling and testing your code? don't tell me you were typing for hours without ANY tests in between because that shit is guaranteed to have at least one overlooked bug. control+s and multiple copies. if you're really as awesome as this comic makes you out to be, they should be your friend by now." But later he cooled down and admitted to the main character that he'd been stupid for not doing all of the above, so I forgave that.

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Counsellor/psychotherapist, and every movie representing it is embarrassingly wrong. The therapist in The Departed made me cringe. Sopranos was awfully wrong. Honestly, all movie therapists are terrible. It makes me curl up and die every time I see them. Is that how people think we work???

I get that often movie/TV show therapists have to be either a) overemotional in order to get involved with the protagonist or b) cold and distant to extent a stereotype. But it drives me fucking nuts. A good therapist is warm but challenging, providing an inspiring platform from which to jump beyond yourself. They are supportive but not insipid. Objective and fair but not cold and removed.

Fuck you, movie therapists!

Police Officer. Most shows get a lot of it wrong (though Southland is probably the most accurate) but at the same time, I have seen some pretty bizarre shit

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I'm a copy editor/page designer at a newspaper, and my specific profession is rarely mentioned, but I'm always perturbed by shows/movies' portrayal of journalism.

My jobs have mostly been in a kitchen or laundry at a Old folks home, so probably not at all, they are not the most interesting jobs on the planet.

The job I will end up is as far as I know not portraid a lot in media, and when it is it would be accurate as I study Film and Television, the exception is if I end up as a Film/Tv Prof.

Ha. You hardly ever see package handlers at airports, especially air ports that are specific to loading planes with things people have ordered or are sending to family members.

they probably don't because the job itself is really boring to look at, the machinery is loud, and yeah.

I'm a homemaker. Housewife. Whatever you want to call it. (Though i've had a number of 'outside' jobs, too).

And um - usually pretty wrong, heh. I don't spend all my time cleaning and running around after my kid and cooking/baking/going to book clubs. I *also* do not spend all my time in a housecoat and slippers, smoking on the couch and watching 'Days of our Lives'.

My SO is a tattoo artist. Wrong, wrong, always so wrong, though at least they mostly have them wearing gloves, now. But seriously - wrong. (And they never mention the jobs *i've* had at tattoo shops, which is manning the front/dealing with customers/taking care of the day-to-day of the shop, *or* the job of building needle groups, cleaning up stations, sterilizing stuff, setting stations up.....)

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Mine is represented a lot in the broad sense that I'm in the military. But my actual job is rarely represented and it's badly mangled when it is.

I think I've been lucky that I haven't seen Pharmacies portrayed in media/fandom that much.

Except.

That episode of Hannibal where they had a floater pharmacist serial killer who was sending people into diabetic comas by fucking with their insulin meds, then turning them into living mushroom gardens. I've seen some truly weird (and shitty) floater pharmacists in my time, but it made me uncomfortable to see it put together like that.

I think there was also an ep of Criminal minds that had a pharmacy in it, but I can't recall how it was represented.

Administrator of a private medical practice, and pretty much never. My boss's job is portrayed fairly frequently (or at least doctors in general, I've only seen his specific specialty a couple times) and pretty much never accurately. But mine, I don't think I've ever seen. The closest would be Cuddy on House, but it's not quite the same because she's a doctor as well (and I'm not), and that's a hospital rather than a private practice. There was one episode where they were negotiating their contract with an insurance company, though, that was crazy similar to what was going on at work at the time.

I'm a preschool teacher... I work at a Montessori school, which AFAIK has NEVER been featured in media, so preschools on tv aren't really anything like my school. However what bugs me is that preschool/kindergarten teachers on tv are always just as sweet as sugar in their daily life as they are while in the classroom... NOPE! I spend most of the time I'm not teaching writing slash smut lol

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From what I recall there's like one or two nursing dramas out there. We're mostly in the background or don't exist in most medical dramas.

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Biomedical engineer here and no one cares about us HA HA HA

The Tracy/Hepburn movie "Desk Set" stands out as a movie about a performance improvement consultant and a corporate librarian having a romance without either of them being assholes. There's a couple of science fiction novels. "The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson, and "The Highest Frontier" by Joan Slonczewski, an episode of Bones with a Bill Nye-like guest intern, and perhaps implicitly in The Matrix because someone had to write all that instant-training software that they kept jacking into Neo. Then I think there's a dystopian episode of "The Prisoner" (the original, not the revival.)

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Retail worker? Shows usually show the cashiers (which are more often than not some hate-the-world teenager), not the on-the-floor associates, which is what I am. But even so, none of my managers would let the cashiers get away with being little anti-social shits. Maybe some stores, yes, but not mine.

I mean, outside of commercials for said stores, because the workers are always awesome and upbeat and cheerful, which is pretty much the "ideal" we're pushed toward.

Not job yet, but I...uh...most of the time when a character is described as a linguist it's because they speak a bunch of languages and do translation work and I want to slam my head into a desk. 'Translator' is the word they're looking for, but apparently 'linguist' sounds nicer even though it's not the same thing. Stargate was weird about this, Daniel Jackson spoke a lot of languages and sometimes they called him a translator and other times a linguist--and he did do grammar work and linguistic things occasionally, I would just personally bill him as a translator since that was 99% of what he did in the language area.

So 'not at all.' I can't think of many more major character examples, but people use 'translator' and 'linguist' interchangeably all the damn time.

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I suppose fairly frequently, but in outlandish, wildly inaccurate forms: Indiana Jones, Laura Croft, Relic Hunter, dude from Stargate, etc. I never find treasure or aliens and very rarely fight Nazis.

Okay, fine. I never fight Nazis.

Actual archaeology is intellectually fascinating (and field work is great exercise) but it's very, very boring to watch if you can't participate. THRILL AS THEY STRAIGHTEN THE WALLS OF THEIR EXCAVATION UNIT! GASP AS THEY COUNT THE NUMBER OF DEER BONE FRAGMENTS THAT CAME OUT OF THIS LEVEL. Also, the kind of archaeology I do - private sector working almost exclusively for government contracts and usually doing more survey than actual excavation - is pretty much never represented.