I'm a fucking HOUSEWIFE?

[ToadinTheHoleWithKetchup]

Just had the car insurance renewal on DH's car. I am a named driver, and the details listed state that I am a 'housewife'. How the fuck is this even a category?

The OP can't reply because she's at work

There are usually 2 questions:

What is your employment status?

This is where you could have mentioned self employed.

What is your occupation?

This is where you could have listed your top secret job.

An online form won't let you progress without answering the questions. So somebody filled it in incorrectly.

I used to be a solicitor.

Now I'm a HOUSEWIFE - ooooops! OP did I hurt your eyes?!!!

What vile, rotten few posts you've made.

I wonder what James Bond has down for his occupation.....

I wonder what James Bond has down for his occupation.....

I actually know the answer to this. We had a guy come in for a mortgage application (I was the admin, the other lady was the mortgage broker) and when he left she was like 'did you see that guy?' I was like 'what guy?' And she was like the guy who just left! He's an MI5 agent!!! Have to say he was pretty good at going unnoticed!!

Spies though have all sorts of aliases I suppose. I suspect our nondescript MI5 agent worked in admin too lol. Probably not a spy. Did give his employer as MI5 though.

But I thought your aren't supposed to actually say you work for MI5 !!

Well if you're a spy you'll probably have an alias, but if you work for MI5, there are probably a large amount of mundane jobs there.

We did have a long conversation about this. We concluded that he probably worked in IT or something so it was no risk listing his employer. Provided loads of excitement in an otherwise boring real estate agents.

Actually, now that I think of it, I think he did say his occupation was IT. Lol. It's all coming back to me now.

I’d love to be a housewife
I’m a civil servant but I put a lot of time and effort into ‘homemaking’ outside of my paid employment hours because I like doing it. I don’t think it’s an insult at all! Just put your actual occupation down if it’s inaccurate

@SockYarn

Whatever. I am self-employed, freelance, work at home. In a proper job, in a business I have built up myself. From nothing. If someone asks what I do, i'd say I do a few different things on a freelance basis, or that "I freelance". Because nobody really wants to listen to the ins and outs and it's useful shorthand.

The ones who sound like an arse are the ones who say they're self employed when they're actually flogging bodyshop at home.

Agree.

I have an executive job in comms field but on forms I just say "writer." Fundamentally that's what I do and people don't need the details of the role.

So I think the OP is a government employed computer hacker but she has to say 'self employed' because the government can't admit they employ computer hackers.

Eh?

Why didn't you tell them what your job is then? Are you a spy?

PattyPan 'civil servant' is one of those jobs titles that I actually have no clue what it means and what you actually do (no offence).

Actually I hate when someone says they work in IT. Such a fucking broad spectrum of jobs in that industry. I asked for your job, not the industry you work in. Of people saying they're in Finance....... *rolls eyes. I want to know your fucking salary dude. I'm not making conversation (reference to dating).

@ToadinTheHoleWithKetchup

You don’t stop being a parent when you’re at work, or when your kids are in school, or out with friends, or with a babysitter... or when your children grow up...

You nest of vipers, yes I arrange the insurance, and hell would freeze over before I describe myself as a housewife. I have changed to a different provider with a better premium.

Self employed = MLM or prostitution, really? What I do is irrelevant.

What you do is relevant though, in the same way as someone who's employed is. If you're the one who sorts insurance, you would have had to say what your actual profession is as the second driver when you applied last year. I am saying this as someone who is both self employed and sorts out any and all insurance policies for this house! What does it say on your policy for last year?

PattyPan 'civil servant' is one of those jobs titles that I actually have no clue what it means and what you actually do (no offence).

I think sometimes they test their eyesight by taking a drive?

If you deal with the insurance just ring up and change it to what you think it should say rather than having a moan on here

I have an executive job in comms field but on forms I just say "writer." Fundamentally that's what I do and people don't need the details of the role.
This is no way comparable to calling yourself "freelance" or "self employed" 😂
Baffled that you can't see the difference.

Unemployed is probably the most appropriate. Housewife is patronising and isn't an employment status. It should only really have employed, self-employed, unemployed and retired. I noticed my home insurance says housewife too, although I now work. Guess I should change it.

@bookmum08

PattyPan 'civil servant' is one of those jobs titles that I actually have no clue what it means and what you actually do (no offence).

@pattypan. Civil servants work for national or local government rather than for a private company, doing things that are necessary to run the country. Their bosses are government ministers, but they have to serve whatever party is in power and have no political affiliation. The actual jobs vary extremely widely. So the job title tells you that they are public servants but not what they actually do eg could be a scientist, an accountant, a communications specialist, a town planner, a tax office secretary... anything really.

Yes Cheetas - which is why it's an evasive 'job title' to give.

@1990s agreed