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The Mother of All Jobs

(I didn't title the article to which I'm referring, but I feel I should apologize to Ann Douglas anyway. Sorry Ann!) I know it's been done once or twice before, but I never get tired of reading articles like "The Mother of All Jobs."

The job: a full-time stay-at-home mother.

Massachusetts-based Salary.com has calculated the pay scale for a non-working mother based on the tasks she performs every day.

They looked at the pay scales of 10 jobs that appear to be part of a mom’s day-to-day routine – including a janitor, a housekeeper, a daycare teacher, a cook, a laundry machine operator, a van driver, a CEO and even a psychologist – then averaged out what the typical matriarch should be making.

The amount: $148,462.37 (Cdn.), if someone was willing to pay her for all her hard work.

I love this part too:

Salary.com has a website where moms can plug in their circumstances (number of kids, their ages, time spent on certain chores, etc.) It will calculate how much those services would be worth if there was an official job title consisting of ‘full-time mom’, and even produce a printable document in the form of a paycheque.

Maybe I should print that off and and take it to the bank!

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Paranoia

I wonder how good or bad it is, that today, someone from the Toronto Star did a Google Search on "about Miche."

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Overly sensitive?

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Isn't it all about freedom of choice?

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The InterWeb spells D-O-O-M

Technology is allowing us to make more mistakes faster than ever before!

Thanks to people like me that can't spell, but have internet access "traditional phrases are now more commonly misspelled than rendered correctly in written English." So says this article.

Common errors:

Common | Correct

straight-laced | strait-laced
just desserts | just deserts
font of knowledge or wisdom | fount of knowledge or wisdom
free reign | free rein
slight of hand | sleight of hand
phased by | fazed by
butt naked | buck naked
vocal chords | vocal cords
a shoe-in | a shoo-in

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