The flight attendant meme is here to shame your career choice

Just in time for the holidays.
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Nicole Gallucci
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The flight attendant meme is here to shame your career choice
Are you a doctor? If not prepare to be burned. Credit: Peter Bannan / Getty Images

People usually wait until they're surrounded by family at the holidays to have their career choices judged, but this year we're switching things up a bit.

Now, thanks to a new meme on Twitter, you can have your career path shamed this very instant.

Twitter product manager Laura Gao created the meme by imagining a scenario in which she and her dad were on an airplane, and the flight attendant asked if there was a doctor onboard to help with a medical emergency. In response to the flight attendant's request, Gao pictured her dad roasting her career as a product manager.


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The "flight attendant meme," as it's now being referred to, thanks to Pedestrian, wound up being super relatable to nearly every non-doctor out there. And it took off faster than a stressful flight with dad.

Now, people are trolling themselves by poking fun at their own careers. Nothing like a little deprecating humor to bring people together on the internet, right?

Not all careers are equally impressive to parents, but at least all careers are meme-able.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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