Professional Morons

I like to poke fun at jobs I think are ridiculously easy.
What makes it so much fun, is the people doing these jobs think they have a degree in astro-physics.

Here my top 5 list of jobs and why I laugh:
1) Weatherman : I find it hysterical when my local Fox 7 weatherman brags that his weather model is perfectly accurate for the current weather. A model is supposed to predict something in the future. The fact that it predicts what is CURRENTLY going on is the most stupid thing I can imagine saying. He takes top honors.

2) IT professionals : I will try not to offend my many friends who are in the IT business, but here I go.... Making computers run with hardware someone else designed, prototyped, manufactured and tested just doesn't seem that hard. Making applications run with software someone else designed, wrote, and tested just doesn't seem that hard.
The hard part about the job is keeping the lingo so confusing that only IT people can interpret what other IT people are saying. For this, I respect them, but still laugh.

3) Family Doctors : Let's face it, 99% of what they see is routine. Cold, flu, ear infections, etc. A quick blood pressure check and an internet connection is all you need in these times to be a family doc. They pawn off anything difficult to a specialist. What makes me laugh is that they (like the IT folks) keep the lingo coded so that no one tries to smack them down. If I had any vocabulary at all, I could pass as a doctor.

4) The car salesman "Finance" guy : My absolute favorite role playing character of all times. Anytime I have to talk to one of these clowns, I just pretend I am on a game show. "Why yes Bob, I would like to spin the wheel again."
My favorite experience : I know how the finance guys like to quote a monthly payment instead of the actually final price of the car. One time I programmed the reverse amortization formula in my calculator and started asking for different monthly payments over different time periods, just to see him run back to his office and figure it out. The most fun ever.

5) General technology people : Yes I fall into this category.
We pretend that technology is somehow mysterious, hard to understand, and not everyone can do it. I laugh at myself all the time. A trained monkey could do my job.
I used to listen to my grandfather tell me stories of how he built houses, figured out angles, leveling, built jigs etc. He had an 8th grade education, and no modern tools like laser levels, etc.
The stuff they did in those days with what they had should make all of us feel downright stupid.

-The HTRN