The Many Hats of a Homemaker

Full-time homemakers have a full-time job — and I DO mean FULL TIME. The job comes with no guaranteed benefits, no retirement plan, and no days off (not even weekends). All of the days are 24 hours long, and there are no scheduled lunch breaks or coffee breaks. Oh, and there is no paycheck either. The homemaker wears many hats; chief cook and bottle washer, nurse, chauffer, teacher, janitor and guidance counselor among others. Just a 60-hour week sounds like a dream come true.

Am I complaining? Nope, not even a little bit. The rewards outweigh the problems a hundred times over. There isn't a woman on earth that I'd trade places with. I cheer for women who are superachievers, but they have my deepest sympathy at the same time. They are missing out on all the fun and the pure joy of life.

My friends who hold full-time jobs ask me sometimes what I do all day. That's just funny! What I do is the same thing that their child care provider is doing, what their housekeeper is doing, what the cooks at the fast food joint where they will pick up their family dinner are doing,
what their child's tutor is doing, and on and on and on. But I have no coworkers that I must tolerate and try to get along with, and I have no boss telling me what to do. I don't have any competition, either — nobody is after MY job.

I love my job, and I am telling you the truth when I say that I wouldn't want any other job. Of course, homemaking gets repetitious and boring; every job gets repetitious and boring. But when that happens to me, I just change hats!