<p>When filling out forms, if you are a “homemaker”, do you put that, or what</p>
<p>I do work for my H business, but its all unofficial</p>
<p>But homemaker, eh</p>
<p>Try “Consultant”</p>
<p>Eh, don’t i want to look worse,not better?</p>
<p>JK…I do a lot of volunteer work mostly</p>
<p>Aren’t you a partner, of sorts, in the business? Or a worker?</p>
<p>How about: Really Significant Other ?!</p>
<p>Would “unemployed” feel better or worse?</p>
<p>“Annoying Noodge” is an official IRS category, I think.</p>
<p>I have seen, “SAHM” :)</p>
<p>CGM, suggestion, characterize the title as appropriate to the document and its related audience. For example, on some forms I use my office if it’s a board or volunteer position, others, I use whatever it is I am doing. </p>
<p>Variations are head of household, director, president, chairman, chief executive, principal point of contact, alternate point of contact, primary consultant, etc. For a wife who is assisting in a business I would be tempted to say “co-owner” or “officer” etc. depending on what the state law actually says. </p>
<p>On other forms I deliberately leave the title section blank - just because there is a space or category on a form doesn’t mean you are forced to populate it. Decision is something like: who needs to know this, and why, and how does the information benefit the transaction? If there isn’t some very good reason to provide a title, I wouldn’t do it.</p>
<p>I am talking here in this instnace abou college applications</p>
<p>I often just put “at home.”</p>
<p>College applications call for the “title” of the parent(s)? Why? Aren’t they primarily concerned with level of education, and income? I don’t remember D asking me for mine - wow, I wonder what she put down.</p>
<p>how about “self employed”</p>
<p>How about “Love Slave?” </p>
<p>I admit to using “homemaker” and even the dreaded “housewife” </p>
<p>“Not Employed for Wages” was the category on a survey I took recently.</p>
<p>isnt this fun?? I earn no salary from anybody, but I works hard, so
Empress sounds good, or as my Ds say, Mommy when they want something and glare whent hey don’t</p>
<p>I think “Cleaner-cooker-errand runner-organizer-grocery shopper-all other stuff shopper-driver-appointment setter-laundress-home repairer-ironer-dog walker-dishwasher-counter wiper-gardener-lawn mower-bill payer-finder of “lost” items-vacation planner-pooper scooper-library book returner-on call caretaker for all neighbors and family’s kids-argument settler-shoulder to cry on-sorter of papers on kitchen counter-ant controller-and financial aid filler outer” ought to just about do it.</p>
<p>I am fully employed but I usually leave it blank as well. It’s too hard to describe in a word what I do and there’s no real title that would mean anything outside the company.</p>
<p>How about “jack of all trades”? Seems like most “homemakers” can double up as that! :p</p>