Job Title Suggestions!

J.,
I always tell everyone that I have the Household CEO/President position!! It is creative and it says it all!
H.

"Domestic Engineer" is the one I use all the time. I don't think there's anything wrong with "Family CEO". ;-)

This is a little silly.. how about Domestic enginer?

Depending on my mood I use

Domestic Diva
Domestic goddess
Keeper of the little people

I do tax preparation so when i have a married couple and the mother is a stay at home mom and they seem to be kind of embarassed we laugh and i put down domestic engineer, just sounds better than housewife.

"Home Economics Engineer" is the one I always used before I went back to work!
Blessings,
A.

What about Chief Domestic Officer? or CDO

Try Domestic Engineer. People might scrach their heads at first but I think it sounds good.

I put down domestic Goddess! It's a good laugh but true!

President? Domestic engineer was my mom's favorite. I sometimes think dictator. Just kidding. I always have the same ? Soemtimes I lie and put soemthing I woudl liek to be when the kids are grown, future pharmacist. Or I make up one like, Civil Sanitation educator. mean I take care of the people clean up after the people and educate the people.

Have fun with it. Or do what we did in college and just say grass and turf science. Make up an obscure one no one woudl question even if they did not believe it. LOL

How about "Mom". That just says it all!

J.,

Here are a few of my favorites:

1. Domestic Goddess
2. Most Supreme Empress of the (your last name) Family
3. CEO of the (your last name) Family

I used the second one when I was pre-registering to have my twins. The nurses got a big kick out of it.

M.

Hi J.,
I JUST read this on my sister-in-law's myspace site. She is a new mom to an almost four month old little boy. I don't know where she got it, but I love it. It is about exactly what you put down.....

A woman, renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk 's office was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. "What I mean is," explained the recorder, "do you have a job or are you just a.......?"

"Of course I have a job," snapped the woman.
"I'm a Mom."

"We don't list 'Mom' as an occupation, 'housewife' covers it," said the recorder emphatically.

I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall.

The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised,
efficient and possessed of a high sounding title like,
"Official Interrogator" or "Town Registrar."

"What is your occupation?" she probed.

What made me say it?
I do not know.
The words simply popped out.
"I'm a Research Associate in the field of
Child Development and Human Relations."

The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in midair and
looked up as though she had not heard right.

I repeated the title slowly emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written,
in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

"Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest,
"just what you do in your field?"

Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice,
I heard myself reply, "I have a continuing program of research, [what mother doesn't)
in the laboratory and in the field,
(normally I would have said indoors and out).
I'm working for my Masters, (first the Lord and then the whole family) and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree?) and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money."

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she completed the form, stood up and personally ushered me to the door.

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up 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, (a 6 month old baby) in the child development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt I had scored a beat on bureaucracy!
And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than
"just another Mom." Motherhood!

What a glorious career!
Especially when there's a title on the door.

Does this make grandmothers
"Senior Research associates in the field of
Child Development and Human Relations"
and great grandmothers
"Executive Senior Research Associates"?
I think so!!!
I also think it makes Aunts
"Associate Research Assistants".

I've always used "full-time mother" for occupation, because that's what I'm occupied at full time. :)

Domestic Engineer...sounds important, huh?

J.,

If you are proud of what you are doing, and you should be, it does not matter what you put down. If you want, put "Mother" as your job title. Don't be so worried about what other people think, when you write housewife, homemaker, etc. We have become too concerned about PC titles and lost the confidence in ourselves. Before I went back to work, I wrote mother, and every interview I went on after returning to work, when they would ask about multi-tasking, I would refer them to the resume and say that I was taking care of my two young children, and they would usually laugh and say, "Yea, I guess that would require a lot of multi-tasking" (especially from those interviewers who were parents themselves.

I always put self-employed

Well lets see there are alot of terms I can think of. The first one is the ever so popular Domestic Engineer. Then there is the CEO of a Private Company. There is also the President of the Developement of Domestic Affairs for the (insert family last name) Corporation. Then there are the non-lucrative titles such as tax advisor, financial consultant, chauffer, head chef, cleaning lady and the more popular with the men, femail escort.

Here's one:

Director of Family's Affairs and CEO

I know how you are feeling. Everytime I fill something out that asks for my occupation I have no idea what to put. From now on I'm using this!
Take care,
T.

I tried hard to define what SAHMs do in a couple of words.

I just couldn't.

If I had to fill out that box, I would put SAHM. I wouldn't define it or anything. Let 'em ask if it matters.