15 jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents
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Flickr/Leonardo Rizzi What exactly is a data scientist, anyway?Many parents have no idea what their adult kids actually do every day. But they want to understand.
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In LinkedIn's 2015 global study, more than half of the 1,390 parents surveyed admitted they aren't very familiar with what their child does for a living, while one in three parents said they don't understand their kids' jobs at all.
To help bridge the gap, here are 15 of the most misunderstood jobs in America, according to LinkedIn's survey, and how you could explain them to struggling parents.
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