List of Occupations: ***????

[peteukmcr]

Never seen this list when checking in online using the UK site unless this is new. No idea what the terms 'white collar' and 'blue collar' used in the US mean anyway.

Edited December 12, 2013 by peteukmcr

[Clarea]

Never seen this list when checking in online using the UK site unless this is new. No idea what the terms 'white collar' and 'blue collar' used in the US mean anyway.

Generally, white collar is an office worker, blue collar is a factory worker.

[Retired LEO]

It's nothing dirty, it's just someone who is trained in working out if chicks are male or female so that they can be sent to, erm, live on the correct happy farms where they can play all day long. If you don't have a chicken sexer you have to wait until they're about a month old before the lay person could tell the difference.

 

If anyone here was a "Chicken Sexer" they'd be on the 6:00 news with alot of explaining to do. :D

[Thoie]

If anyone here was a "Chicken Sexer" they'd be on the 6:00 news with alot of explaining to do. :D

 

"I'm not a chicken sexer, I'm a chicken sexer's son..." :-)

 

I guarantee that America has chicken sexers too. They're probably called poultry genderising technicians or something.

 

Sent from a mobile device.

[reallyitsmema]

"I'm not a chicken sexer, I'm a chicken sexer's son..." :-)

 

I guarantee that America has chicken sexers too. They're probably called poultry genderising technicians or something.

 

Sent from a mobile device.

There are, I have seen it on Dirty Jobs. Mike Rowe wasn't too good at it. Dirty Jobs is a tv show, not sure if they show it on your side of the pond.

[Brandonclan]

I've never known what they use that information for. I suspected they might use it for dining room table assignments, but I have no way of knowing.

 

LOL....now look what you started Bob!

Too funny.

[Clarea]

LOL....now look what you started Bob!

Too funny.

At least it's not another tipping thread.:p

[Familygoboston]

This is great!:D No one can keep up,with "jobs" today! We hear about the fact that schools can't adjust their programs fast enough to train workers to do the work employers need. My DH started a career in Computers, before there was a major. My DD goes to an art school that is part of a technical university, with majors such as :

3D digital design

New Media

Media arts

 

Did any of those exsist 20 years ago? (Or 20 minutes ago.;))

 

Of course, no one can keep up, but what's really weird is that this list includes, some careers, some professions and some jobs, thats why 3 things could apply to one person! It's like comparing apples and oranges!

 

Btw- Ive heard of chicken sexers too. They have to know which to send to the fried chicken plant and which to the egg plant:p;)

[dln929]

We were at a 12 top table on our Radiance cruise and trust me we had people from a range of these categories. We all hit it off great and was the best table assignment we have ever had.

 

You were lucky! We were on a table in a Med cruise and the only two criteria they seemed to use was 1) we were all English-speaking North Americans and 2) we were all in our fifties or so. There wasn't any other common element--we had a engineer, a doctor, an insurance salesman....and a Union worker and Non-Union worker. The latter two nearly came to blows during dinner, I kid you not. And this was on the first night!!!!! :eek: That was one table we ran away from, and FAST. I think they shoulda stuck to the list. ;)

[3CatsInMA]

I always thought the list was a bit odd, but since I don't answer that question anyway I don't worry too much about it.... :)

[#1TravelMom]

Obviously Celebrity did not use this on our last cruise - extended trip through the Panama Canal. It was several years ago and quite expensive, but something we really wanted to do. Everyone at our table of 8 "appeared" to be extremely wealthy. An international attorney, a gem broker, a commercial real estate owner, a cardiac surgeon and a successful model(originally thought she was with her father). Anyway, we struggled through 3 nights of dinner but just had nothing in common.

 

Conversation: "Where do you winter?" Our reply: At our house

"Where do you summer?" Our reply: At our house

"Do you have any retreats?" Our reply: Nope, just one house

"Where is your nanny from?" Our reply: No nanny

"How can you find a good gardener?" etc, etc.

I assume these are all great conversation starters - but not for us. We are blessed, but not wealthy. We did not feel inferior - I think people impose those feelings upon themselves. Rather, we just felt as if we had very little to talk about. I thought one of the ladies was going to have a heart attach when my husband took his tie off at the table on formal night(I gave him credit for wearing it at all). She said she wouldn't have allowed it.

[Thoie]

Btw- Ive heard of chicken sexers too. They have to know which to send to the fried chicken plant and which to the egg plant:p;)

 

 

No, no, they're going to the happy farms, remember? Where all the chickens hang out together and play all day, and there's no bed time, and no-one has to tidy their room or cut the grass.

[Icruzthere4Iam]

I've checked something different and random every cruise I've been on. I like to think that I'm an enigma in their big computer hahaha :D.

[Ocean Boy]

I've never known what they use that information for. I suspected they might use it for dining room table assignments, but I have no way of knowing.

 

Oh my, the last thing I'd want is to be at a table loaded with physicians.:rolleyes:

[Clarea]

Oh my, the last thing I'd want is to be at a table loaded with physicians.:rolleyes:

Last I heard, all the physicians go to Windjammer for dinner.;)

[DirtyDawg]

Oh my, the last thing I'd want is to be at a table loaded with physicians.:rolleyes:

 

Physicians wouldn't be too bad. Now, a table full of Actuaries....:eek:

 

Those guys and gals are wild!;)

[Ocean Boy]

Last I heard, all the physicians go to Windjammer for dinner.;)

 

Hmmm, my dining choices are becoming increasingly narrowed.

[pcur]

I'm always amused that they seem to think "retired" is a profession. :D

[Folk Singer]

I'm always amused that they seem to think "retired" is a profession. :D

 

 

It is a profession. I work harder now than I did when I had a 9-5.;);)

[The_Big_M]

Never seen this list when checking in online using the UK site unless this is new. No idea what the terms 'white collar' and 'blue collar' used in the US mean anyway.

 

 

That's interesting. They're common terms here, so I'd have thought we'd inherited them from the UK.

[The_Big_M]

I'm always amused that they seem to think "retired" is a profession. :D

 

It's the counterpart to student. :D

Edited December 14, 2013 by The_Big_M

[lakelorain]

Obviously Celebrity did not use this on our last cruise - extended trip through the Panama Canal. It was several years ago and quite expensive, but something we really wanted to do. Everyone at our table of 8 "appeared" to be extremely wealthy. An international attorney, a gem broker, a commercial real estate owner, a cardiac surgeon and a successful model(originally thought she was with her father). Anyway, we struggled through 3 nights of dinner but just had nothing in common.

 

Conversation: "Where do you winter?" Our reply: At our house

"Where do you summer?" Our reply: At our house

"Do you have any retreats?" Our reply: Nope, just one house

"Where is your nanny from?" Our reply: No nanny

"How can you find a good gardener?" etc, etc.

I assume these are all great conversation starters - but not for us. We are blessed, but not wealthy. We did not feel inferior - I think people impose those feelings upon themselves. Rather, we just felt as if we had very little to talk about. I thought one of the ladies was going to have a heart attach when my husband took his tie off at the table on formal night(I gave him credit for wearing it at all). She said she wouldn't have allowed it.

Sounds like your table mates should have checked off the "Snob" category.

[bethc1952]

I'm a government worker. As such, my job description is pretty much "do whatever you're told to do". That includes accountant, IT person, administrative, technical, and special events/concert coordinator. That last one is lots of fun, really, because we get some national oldies acts each summer, and I've had the pleasure to meet quite a few of my girlhood idols. If you're old enough to remember Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), you can imagine how I felt the night he performed on our stage LOL!!!

 

I just pick whichever job description I feel like when I get to that list. On our only other Royal cruise, we were seated with three other couples, all within our age range, all of whom spoke English because they all lived in the UK somewhere! Nothing else in common, but we had an absolutely fantastic time.

 

Beth

[SharkCruiser24]

Using this information would be way too tedious for dining arrangements. I think this is a form of free marketing information. They are pretty much letting their sailing passengers tell them who's their target market in each cruise market/itinerary, or at least give them an idea.

[bcarney]

Okay this one makes me laugh and scratch my head.....

 

While doing the online check-in, one of the items RCI has you select is your occupation. Has anyone ever wondered where on earth their list came from? It's like they just randomly picked some "jobs", some "fields" and some "terms" and threw them together. Here is the list of options in it's entirety:

 

I had a former co-worker that would fill out forms like this with weird occupations like "porn movie stunt double". He really needed help, but he was entertaining….