copperfire:

goddamnshinyrock:

@copperfire- those are good ones for a kid to try an explain too, definitely. at least they have actually one or two word job titles though.
@happierthandignified– omg that’s great, I’m so glad this nonsense showed up in that search.
@aflame-inyourheart– ????? what can be a DIY project? and who said anything about ‘bad’? I can’t figure out what you’re getting at here.
@focsle– I tend to forget that not everyone who knows me knows about my mother’s weird job. she doesn’t have a website to link to, unfortunately, so I can’t show pictures, but just picture a 9 foot long fiberglass lobster that opens up to show fabric guts. Or a quahog that’s four feet across. Or a life-size bottlenose dolphin that you can unzip and even open up the stomach and see the stomach contents. She did a harbor seal when I was little and I got so attached to the fetal seal pup that she had to make a new one to put in the model because I wouldn’t give it up.

The pithy job title definitely helps, at least then most people go ‘oh, right’ even if they don’t actually know what that job is. There was a certain point at which I felt that more people probably should know what either ecologists or landscape architects did, but I find myself explaining these things to this day so apparently not. (Landscape architect trips up more people, interestingly.)

Your mother’s job sounds awesome, that is so cool. Those would be amazing model things to get to have a look at, especially with all the internal bits! Does she make these for schools? Museums? 

huh, I definitely would have guessed that ecologist took more explaining.

all of the above! Her models have been commissioned by school districts, museums, and environmental outreach orgs.