"Renewing my driver's license, I ws self-consious about listing "mother" as my main occupation.
'Do you have a job?' the clerk inquired.
'I'm a... research associate in the field of child development and human relations'
'Might i ask just what you do in your field?'
'I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn't) in the lab and in the field. I am working for my masters and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities and i often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than the most run of the mill careers, and the rewards are in satisfaction rather than just money'
As i drove into our driveway, impressed by my glamorous new career, i was greeted by my lab assistants- ages 13,7, and 3. Upstairs i could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child develpment program, testing out a new vocal pattern. i felt triumphant. I had scored a point on bureaucracy and was now in the official records a someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another mother..."
'Do you have a job?' the clerk inquired.
'I'm a... research associate in the field of child development and human relations'
'Might i ask just what you do in your field?'
'I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn't) in the lab and in the field. I am working for my masters and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities and i often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than the most run of the mill careers, and the rewards are in satisfaction rather than just money'
As i drove into our driveway, impressed by my glamorous new career, i was greeted by my lab assistants- ages 13,7, and 3. Upstairs i could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child develpment program, testing out a new vocal pattern. i felt triumphant. I had scored a point on bureaucracy and was now in the official records a someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another mother..."
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Mon, February 25, 2008 - 10:58 AMawesome! thanks for the smile--i needed it -
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Mon, February 25, 2008 - 12:45 PMI've seen this before. It's cute, though I proudly say that I am a mother, it is by far the greatest thing I have ever done in my life! -
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Mon, February 25, 2008 - 1:52 PMnothing is more valuable to the whole human community than motherhood done well...so, yeah, we work passionately and tirelessly. -
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 10:09 PMI hear ya. I work catering and our home-base is the University in my town. I work faculty events, student events and weddings. People *always* ask me if Im a student there and I tell them that Im not. At first I was ashamed (for lack of better words) to tell them that Im *only* a SAHM. Then I realized that what I do for my family...no one can do it better. Now I stand proud and if people ask if Im a student I tell them "no, Im a SAHM. this little job is to get me out of the house."
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 2:24 PMoh what a world, that they've got us convinced there is any work more important than loving one person exceptionally well and skillfully.
truly, it is often impossible to know what our harvest our works in this world yield.
we are each best suited to know our own mission here.
and so the uncomfortable way in which we have been pushed to compare ourselves and be at each other's throats -- working mom versus stay at home mom -- is such a disservice to us all.
