Listomania
Christina Fakhry

The 8 Most Common Jobs Among Lebanese People

SPOILER ALERT: no engineers, doctors or lawyers attached.

1. Photographer

I didn’t want to place this at the top of my list at first, but I have to admit the 86,705,543 Lebanese photography pages currently populating Facebook and Instagram did not leave me that much of a choice. Prolific industry marked by poorly-designed watermarks that are sometimes large enough to cover 90 percent of the actual photo.

2. Blogger

It takes more than a WordPress account and basic brain functions to become a blogger. Unless you’re a Lebanese with a WordPress account and basic brain functions, then yes, you TOTALLY are. Glam on!

3. Entrepreneur

There was a time when the startup ecosystem was healthily booming in the country and all but then came the year 2016 where everyone wanted either to sell chokers on Insta and add ‘entrepreneur’ to their bio along the way or sell chokers on Insta AND lemonade on Facebook and call themselves ‘serial entrepreneur’. That’s when it all became depressingly confusing to say the least…

4. Activist

*Shares BETA picture to Facebook wall on Monday, January 23 at 6:31 PM*
*Adds ‘activist’ to resume on Monday, January 16 at 6:32 PM*
[Gotta appreciate the speed though.]

5. Fashionista

OMG YOU’RE ONE OF THE 2.4 BILLION HUMANS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM WHO WEAR DIFFERENT CLOTHES EVERY DAY AND POST PICS OF THEM WEARING DIFFERENT CLOTHES EVERY DAY ON INSTA WHILE HASHTAGGING #BLESSED IN THE CAPTION?! WHAT A TRULY INSPIRATIONAL POP CULTURE STYLE ICON YOU ARE FOR OUR LOST GENERATION PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME ON THE PATH I SHOULD TAKE IN LIFE!!!!!

6. Consultant

Knowing a thing or two about running an ad on Facebook totally makes you a ‘digital marketing consultant’. More good news: you can take a two-hour workshop about SEO five days later and voila! You’re officially a ‘digital marketing evangelist’, carrying the noble message of Google salvation to the world.

7. Artist

Profession: actor. Projects: played third tree to the left in end-of-year kindergarten play (1997), memorized two Shakespeare lines in third grade, also my left leg made an appearance in that soda ad a couple months ago…

Profession: singer. Projects: duetted with rubber duck to “I Will Always Love You” in the shower (1998), almost made middle school choir two years later but the teacher was so mean, my acoustic cover of Adele’s “Hello” has 254 views on YouTube…

Profession: self-taught artist. Projects: drew my family portrait in summer 89 and got two gommettes from the teacher, won 37th place in youth art competition (1997), accidentally spilled paint bucket on friend’s naked back last week and called it ‘body art’…

8. Political Analyst

Oh come on, who says you need to be properly educated in political theory in order to formulate valid opinions/harsh Facebook statuses about local and international politics? Aren’t we Lebanese political analysts by birth? Why even attempt to change that?

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