A SAHM walks into a bar...

[Magalouf]

And goes to order a round, when one of the guys in the round comes up and says 'I'll get these, I've got a job'.

AIBU to be pissed off! I said it's fine I got it, but he was pretty insistent. I didn't want a scene. He's a friend of DH, who wasn't there at the time.

And I tend to think that people who think parenting is tough but not a job just weren't prepared for all the hard work involved in parenting!

Personally I don't think parenting is tough at all. But it is a job!

Being a SAHM is excruciatingly hard compared to the rest of my work history. In this situation I would have said "Thanks very much" and ordered a double.

Not sure how this is different to me saying to my friends who are students (and therefore skint) that I'll buy them a drink as I know they are watching their pennies ...

I think yabu to be offended. It's just sometimes what friends do, and sometimes one pays for the other etc. It's not a big deal -.- honestly.

Id just say "that's really sweet, thanks. By the way mines a pitcher of strawberry daiquiri."

Having a job usually means earning money, leaving the house (but not always), training, travelling, working to some sort of hirechy. It's something most people have to do, in order to eat/have a home/generally live.

Having a child is a lifestyle choice, that does not mean it isn't hard, worth the effort or just as rewarding or even disappointing as a paid job. I'd even say calling it a 'job' diminishes what it is parents do, like it's just another necessity. I would say it's an unfair comparison.

Yup, lonely. Because unless you are severely isolated, and that's a whole other problem, there is a dad, other mums, Internet, your kid, family... It's not a lonely job!

I thought that - it is only lonely if you make it so. I am a single mother as I mentioned, and I live abroad away from my family but I am not lonely at all. But then - I am not a stay at home mother. However, if I was - I still wouldnt be because I would still take my son out all the time to see friends, his and mine!