29 Comically Bad Stock Photos That Poorly Describe People's Careers

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Oct 4, 2018 4:00 PM EDT

These stock images are bad, but they kinda make you wish that your job was actually as cool as what they depict.

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    Product - Shutterstrck www.shutterstock.com 1009101253 Sabine Stanley @PlanetSabine Admittedly, I wish being a planetary scientist meant I could move the planets with hand gestures #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 11:40 PM May 5, 2018 344 72 people are talking about this
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    Job - Alex Kazemi @KazemiAlex When someone points out the pneumothorax on the X-ray and you laugh along , saying "yeah so obvious" and then spend the next three hours looking at the film because you skipped radiology class at med school.#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 9:21 AM May 7, 2018 See Alex Kazemi's other Tweets 24
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    Text - ((Mike Craft))) @craftmike As an MRI tech l always guide my patients into a highly energized state on the astral plane until their glowing skeletons can provide useful positioning landmarks. Then I encourage them to stick their arms out to ensure they won't fit in the bore#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 3:04 PM - May 5, 2018 932 9 239 people are talking about this
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    Product - m ISTGck iStock iStock Stock iSt ay ream/cime fstock istack IStock kuro @kurorori Because everybody knows you can't be a proper system administrator without that striped shirt. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 1:55 PM May 4, 2018 167 23 people are talking about this eomstime
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    Product - Fogroh uttersteck shutterstock Freeograph shutterstock shuttersts Sandra Kamping Squitersteck @sakamping Because I allow all of my patients to bring their booze to the psychotherapy session.#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 1:50 PM May 6, 2018 6 See Sandra Kamping's other Tweets
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    Product - snucerstpck www.shutterstock.com 360830138 Christopher Gough @chrisgough2 (E) "We'd like to see a book." "Here. This is a book." "My gosh, it opens! We should get a photo to celebrate!"#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob #libraries 9:42 PM May 5, 2018 See Christopher Gough's other Tweets 29 (D)
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    Movie - eng0101010010010 BrightSilence @BrightSilence Data Science... it's basically Minority Report without the psychics. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 11:20 AM May 4, 2018 524 125 people are talking about this
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    Font - GeneticsCambridge @GeneticsCam In Genetics we are so glad it is this easy to see the strands of the DNA we just extracted #BadStockPhotosOf MyJ ob 9:18 AM May 5, 2018 91 people are talking about this 503
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    Product - shutterstock.com 1069270415 Roxy @rhovdayyyyy Im studying epidemiology to wear full protection gear and give the ok that the bag of fake blood isn't contaminated?? If this in't life goals then I dont know what is #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob #epidemiology 8:23 PM May 4, 2018 See Roxy's other Tweets 25
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    Product - CK PHOTO dreas hutterstock in protective suit holdingpile of earth with smal sprout in woods Dave Hemprich-Bennett @hammerheadbat As an ecologist I'm never sure if I should be terrified by plants or dressed formally whilst in their company #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 6:34 PM May 5, 2018 626 103 people are talking about this
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    Chest - a alamy a a a a a alamy alamy a a a alamy a a alamy stock photo my CWH1K5 Rebecca Yu @rebeccahedron www.alamy.com as a science communicator, i, too, like to regurgitate cables in the dark while topless. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob (sorry i'm late) 1:33 AM May 7, 2018 4 See Rebecca Yu's other Tweets
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    Engineer - shutte stodk Katie 'better than the W-23' Mummah @nuclearkatie If you're a nuclear engineer, carry your laptop around with you.... as you work AT A GAS PLANT#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 1:27 AM May 4, 2018 310 47 people are talking about this
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    Text - ck istock iStock iSt by Gerty Images by Getty Images Images by Getty iStock iStock Gelty Images by Getty Imdges by Getty Im ock Stck iStock iSt by Getty Images Getty ges Images by Getty Laura Bretherton @phytoplanktonic Marine biologists never have to pack food supplies when in the field.#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 2:24 PM May 6, 2018 7 See Laura Bretherton's other Tweets
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    Product - decothchot dpastphotos eposiongtos depectphotos dgacotohotos daposirah otos Saucy Stacey @DrSCubed Replying to @DrjenGunter Hypothesis: You cannot pour the blue liquid in to the yellow liquid if you don't remove the cap from the blue liquid Test Hypothesis supported. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 9:54 PM - May 6, 2018 271 58 people are talking about this
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    Games - shu shutterstock tterstock dreang eime Philippe Teuwen @doegox Let's play the #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob game, I'm electronics engineer. Still, I burn often myself, and not only on my hands... 8:07 AM May 8, 2018 32 26 people are talking about this
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    Product - shutterstk shutterstcck www.shutterstock.com- 376998085 www.shutterstock.com 376998115 BIObus_Canada @BIObus_Canada Yup, you nailed it. This is what we do everyday. #entomologist #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 4:38 PM - May 7, 2018 See BIObus_Canada's other Tweets 9
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    Text - MYMOTWA alamy stock photo ANTONYM SYNONYM Anatol Stefanowitsch @astefanowitsch As a linguist I spend my days categorizing words into synonyms and antonyms using rubber stamps. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 1:05 PM May 4, 2018 740 122 people are talking about this
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    Text - Stock iStock iSt ck ceaImages by Getty Images ages by Getty iStock Stock iStock by Getty I by Getty Images by Gelly hcees Stock ck iSt 1Steck by Getty mages byGely moges ages by Getty Cool Gay No. 6 @RainBlackKat i will never forget when i did my first design job for the cyberspace brain lord #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 3:57 PM - May 4, 2018 264 33 people are talking about this
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    Chemical engineer - Ojohnlund.com Lorijn Zaadnoordijk @LorijnSZ Clearly, as a developmental cognitive scientist working in a babylab I grow my participants in a tube first #BadStockPhotosOf M yJ ob 7:04 PM May 6, 2018 See Lorijn Zaadnoordijk's other Tweets 29
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    Product - Ownaton mepap.coma4 MY BEAUTIFUL DOCTOR WIZARD OH GOD @myelfeyessee #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob True baristas never look at what they're doing when handling hot beverages Instead we stare you dead in the eyes smile in a way to make you feel most uneasy 5:43 AM May 6, 2018 1 See MY BEAUTIFUL DOCTOR WIZARD OH GOD's..
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    Photography - Ellery Frahm @elleryfrahm It's hard to resist the temptation to use performance-enhancing drugs in archaeology. #BadStockPhotosOf MyJ ob 3:07 PM - May 5, 2018 See Ellery Frahm's other Tweets 29
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    Dog - shutterst@ck Simon Redfern @SimOnRedfern #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob I searched for "geologist", honest. 12:42 PM May 6, 2018 See Simon Redfern's other Tweets 58
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    Stock photography - Stutterstck Richard Waite @waiterich I work at a global research organization, AKA a think tank, meaning we sit around all day thinking in serious poses WITH ACTUAL TANKS AIMED AT OUR HEADS HOW DOES THIS IMAGE EVEN EXIST. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 3:08 AM May 7, 2018 See Richard Waite's other Tweets 39
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    Sky - pixtastock.com 19206688 Steven Schultze @GEO_Schultze Most climate scientists are 200 feet tall, and we frequently unleash thunderstorms on people having picnics so I have no problem with this one. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 4:26 PM Apr 25, 2018 445108 people are talking about this
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    Chemical engineer - O123RF 23RF Elisabeth Bik 23RF @MicrobiomDigest Happy hour in the lab. Cheers!#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 10:36 PM May 5, 2018 101 21 people are talking about this 123RF 123RF O123RF
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    Technology - shutkersroek hucterstack sHetterstock Sufterstack Alex M @AKM0711 As a lawyer I can only work with a gavel nearby, even though I'm not a judge. Never know when you might need a ceremonial mallet to keep people in line around the office. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 6:03 PM May 5, 2018 91 20 people are talking about this
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    Food - alamy a alamy alamy I Like Dirt @Samanthosaurus #BadStockPhotosOfMyJ ob look to be a true soil scientist you need to start your day off right with a delicious bowl of dirt. 12:58 PM May 6, 2018 27 2 See I Like Dirts other Tweets
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    Cat - shutterstock.com 463274867 Christa Trexler @ChristaTrex Replying to @MaureenBug This is how I do animal research - I just let the mice pick which tubes they like best #BadStockPhotosOf MyJ ob 7:29 PM May 4, 2018 102 17 people are talking about this
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    Brain - gettyimages DebbiSmirnoff 157513013 Ben Marcus @bmarcus128 Because if you *really* want to understand the brain, you have to listen to it. Real close. BadStockPhotosOfMyJob 1:07 AM May 4, 2018 269 people are talking about this 1,016
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