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To be so sick of all of these "mums work 24 hours a day and get no pay" comments

167 replies

sezamcgregor · 17/04/2014 09:52

Just had a link to this on my FB news feed:

www.okcfox.com/Story/25244962/job-applicants-for-worlds-toughest-job-get-a-big-shock

Having had the last 6 years filled with such posts and comments from parents that they are cook, cleaner, psychologist, nurse etc etc and get either £0 or £20.80 per week for their 24 hour a day work - I'm SO bored of it now.

Anybody else??

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MsVestibule · 17/04/2014 09:56

In my 6 years on FB, I've seen them about twice, and most of my FB friends are mums. Get some new friends.

Writerwannabe83 · 17/04/2014 09:58

I'm with you OP - I can't bear the tragic martyrdom of it all......

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 17/04/2014 10:00

I see what you mean but I've encountered comments such as 'so you just get to sit on your arse all day and get paid for it?' when going on mat leave so maybe your friends have had to deal with stuff like that and are bored of that.

Waggamamma · 17/04/2014 10:00

yanbu. It's a joke.

Being a sahm is great, good for you if your fortunate enough to do it but quit the woe is me rubbish. Lots of mums do all of that stuff and have a job, it's nothing special.

And my dp actually does half of it anyway (or more)...

Roshbegosh · 17/04/2014 10:01

Just popping a baby out automatically makes you a saint, right. All mothers do this and are perfect, right. Also the MILs.

MidniteScribbler · 17/04/2014 10:01

I agree. And since I get to squeeze in to a few hours what SAHM spend all day doing, in addition to spending all day looking after other people's children, then my sympathy level is extremely low.

Ploppy16 · 17/04/2014 10:02

Oh is that what it was? I ignored it as soon as I read the words Worlds Hardest Job, it was too early in the morning for that!
I have friends (lovely ones in all honesty) who will post that until my eyes bleed...
YANBU, but it's the same with an awful lot of FB stuff. I like as much comedy and satire stuff a possible to offset it all!

MsVestibule · 17/04/2014 10:03

Didn't take long for the SAHM vs WOHM debate to start Hmm. So bloody predictable.

windchime · 17/04/2014 10:03

I agree. And since I get to squeeze in to a few hours what SAHM spend all day doing, in addition to spending all day looking after other people's children, then my sympathy level is extremely low.

Totally agree with this .

Cupid5tunt · 17/04/2014 10:06

Haha that was fast. Ding ding!

Beastofburden · 17/04/2014 10:07

If you read stuff from Fox News then you deserve all you get.

It's just a cheesy joke, unbearably cutesy, smug and twee. There's a lot of it about on Facebook.

JassyRadlett · 17/04/2014 10:10

It fucks me off to a huge degree because it's so fucking sexist in such an ingrained, celebrating sexism way.

I gave birth to my son and breastfed him. Apart from those two things, we split the parenting and 'wife work' pretty equally. Where's his Martyr Badge?

LeBearPolar · 17/04/2014 10:11

It's not the world's hardest job though, is it? Or anywhere close? I never understand why it's described as this. Basically, it's what lots of people do whilst holding down a paid job as well.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 17/04/2014 10:12

whether or not it's the hardest 'job' in the world depends on your experience of it.

cloggal · 17/04/2014 10:12

YANBU, this has been all over my news feed.

RoseberryTopping · 17/04/2014 10:15

Yanbu, it's not the worlds hardest job at all. I can think of at least 10 different jobs off the top of my head that would be 10x harder.

It is fucking hard at times though. I'm a SAHM and really struggle with if some days, find it such a joy others. I'm not a nurse, a cook or cleaner though, just a mum doing what mums have done for thousands of years.

shakinstevenslovechild · 17/04/2014 10:15

I must be a really crap Mum, I don't recognise my life from that 'job description' at all.

WilsonFrickett · 17/04/2014 10:16

Oh that has given me the RAGE! So sexist. So very, very, sexist. And ick.

cosyhat · 17/04/2014 10:16

I don't really get things like that on my FB feed as my friends aren't like that but I find the whole idea pretty dull, and bears no relation to my life even as a single mum. I've always had lots of time for rest, chilling out and a social life. In fact I'm still sitting in my PJs while my teenage son is in bed Grin.

fatlazymummy · 17/04/2014 10:17

It's not a 'job' anyway. Parenting is just something you do if you choose to become a parent.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 17/04/2014 10:18

also, it is martyrish to the highest degree but so is complaining that your life is even harder than a SAHP's because you go out to work even though you have kids and housework e.t.c.

JacobTwoTwo · 17/04/2014 10:19

It's not the world's hardest job, but I imagine it can be pretty tough if their partner is an arse who believes that because he brings in the money he doesn't have to do a single thing with the house/childcare. But if this is the case, they would be better off putting their energies into changing their situation/LTB, rather than playing the martyr and trying to convince the world that their situation is normal.

CoffeeTea103 · 17/04/2014 10:19

Yanbu, it's a choice you made to be a parent, so why on earth do people expect to be paid for it and by whom?
A woman to works and does all this, then that's something to talk about. But it's always the people who only have this 'job' that go on about it.

MidniteScribbler · 17/04/2014 10:22

I have a friend who is a doctor and has to tell people that they are dying. I know a police officer who has to go and sit with families and tell them a loved one has died. Another friend of mine goes in to disaster zones with her dog and searches for dead bodies.

Parenting being the hardest job in the world? Talk about taking the fucking piss.

Thetallesttower · 17/04/2014 10:23

That's so stupid it's fallen off the scale. That's the whole point, parents don't have professional quals such as a PhD in Psychology or CPR, there's no quals and lots of pretty shit parents to be honest (not that having quals would change this).