to not know what WOHM stands for?

[Maylee]

...can someone please explain?! I suspect I probably am one.....but would be good to know!

I think it is Working Out of Home Mum, to differentiate from WFHM - Working From Home.

Work Outside the House Mum

(ie do work that you get paid for not in your house).

There are WAHM who are work at home mums. And SAHM who are stay at home mums. Have never worked out what I am as mainly SAHM but go out and do intensive work every 6 months or so.

psst - there is an acronyms list at the top of the page, just above threads i'm on etc

here

bet there are 100 other replies already by now though

Thanks for that. I think it's a bit silly really. What's wrong with "working mum"?

I thought I explained that!

lol at nigglewiggle

Not overly worried about it by any means but was just wondering why the need to differentiate between working from home and not. I work from home on a Weds for example -

Then you would be a WOHMMDBWFHOWM - (Works Out of Home Most Days But Works From Home on Wednesdays Mum .

Trouble with using 'working mums' to describe WOHMs only is that SAHMs are indeed working.

I see now. Is it like a politically correct thing then?

'tis a way of trying to differentiate which mums work in which ways and from where. When doesn't seem to come into it.

Always causes upset.

is work only classed as work if it's paid? what about an acronym for works bloody hard -paid sod all 'WBHPSA' - doesn't really have a ring to it does it?

Noah - never sure where I fit in either - work intensively for a few weeks ever few months, SAHM rest of time with voluntary work thrown in too ... now that would make for some interesting acronyms!

WAHM seems usually to mean running a business from home, or, sometimes one of those work from home jobs stuffing envelopes or some such. Something that doesn't usually involve colleagues. Maybe.

Where would being an Avon lady fall, one wonders

Yup, in this arbitrary system of forum based anachronisms, it seems that work is only classed as work if it's paid...

Avon lady would be a "working on the street mum" surely?!!

It actually really bugs me that we can't seem to come up with an acronym for 'SAHM' that mentions work.

Something like M/HM - Mother/Homemaker?

Oh wait. Not everybody assumes homemaking is work.

Perhaps we should go back to the good old days of housewife?

Quick, I'll get the broom!

We are still called housewives...usually with derision. Which is why I bristle at 'housewife.' Also, don't like defining myself by my relationship to DH.

I like homemaker because it describes my relationship to/work in the home and is...active?

I worked for a finance company when i was much much younger and we used to get applications for finance. On those applications, whenever we saw "housewife" listed next to profession, we used to laugh and jeer and say "that's not a profession"!!

Oh the shame

It's actually not on the list of professions on the drop-down menu at LinkedIn.

The closest thing I could find was 'Dairy.'