Professionals Share How They Can Immediately Tell If Someone Is an Amateur Or Expert In Their Field

Using literal definitions is a big giveaway

"Anyone who quotes the dictionary while giving a speech has an amateur speechwriter (probably themselves, which is totally fine)."

MuseHill

It's not like "Mr. Robot"

"Amateurs who get into cybersecurity thinking they'll be actively hunting hackers all day, but the experts know you'll just be poring through log files all day and piecing together a lab report of your findings to present to upper management, followed by remediation."

Jiggly_Love

For the game developers

"If they update Unity when they're in the middle of making a game, they're an amateur. It will mess up your project beyond belief."

TheIrishninjas

The exact opposite of what an esthetician does

"Esthetician here. I once was interviewing a woman who was older than me who claimed to be very experienced in all things esthetics so we had her do a practical on someone as the last part of the interview. She went on to try to do extractions without gloves or wrapping her fingers in gauze. Essentially just using her finger nails to pop pimples on a stranger. EWW!"

trophywifey123

Newbies are filled with optimism

"Social Worker

When New Social Workers talk about how if they do just this one thing the client's life is going to be amazing. In reality our clients are facing an entire world of disadvantages and we work on only one small part.

Experienced social workers pull in a team of support because we're not there long term but family, friends, religion, neighbors, etc will do way more long term than any of us."

Ethelfleda

Runners can tell that you're new here

"I used to be a professional runner. You could tell noobs that would show up to group runs when all of their clothes matched and they looked good."

sadpanda___

Ever see a chef slice and dice? Amazing

"Chef."

"Knife skills are always a tell tale sign of amateur or pro."

counterspell

The best teachers have husky voices

"Teacher here."

"Amateur: Not busy. Yells at students to get them to behave."

"Expert: Always doing something. Gets students to behave with minimal effort. Husky voice."

BoddledWader

I feel attacked

"When they're using Excel, if they spend 50% or more of the time with their hand on the mouse: Amateur."

LeaveItToYourGoat

It's all in the bedside manner

"For a nurse I've found the best way to tell is how they can talk to people."

"An experienced nurse will bounce from patient to patient completely changing their tone of voice, how they talk, whether or not they can have a bit of a joke or stay serious - usually after a few seconds of talking to someone."

"New or junior nurses are usually completely professional at all times."

"I always worry when we get a nursing student that can happily tell you all the opiate receptors but can't hold a conversation with a patient for more than a few minutes."

Urethra_tormentor

Some of these are dead giveaways... others were a bit more surprising.

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