I make money. There's a big difference between the state of being employed and having the ability to produce money. Yes, I am not employed, but I don't sit around watching TV at home, nor staring into space. I make sure that I make money and I get challenged seeing how much I can get myself to make in every month. I teach Koreans online, I do general transcription and data base mining, I do creative writing, and yes, I do get paid, with real cold cash for having my brain as my capital. I buy and sell stuffs online (which I made a lot of money from), and I am in the initial stages of manufacturing natural/ herbal soaps to market internationally. I am also constructing an online tutorial site, for residual income.
Aside from that, I do household chores - I wash clothes (better than our help, who is on an extended vacation by the way), I cook (I can make lengua and more complicated stuff than fried chicken), I designed and wrote my son's academic lessons for the whole year, and I keep our house clean - I mop the floor, apply floorwax, change bedsheets, keep the bathroom fresh and germ-free... I iron my husband's uniform and make sure he has clean socks and shoes and hankies off to work every morning. I also keep our pets clean, we have one cat and one puppy, I bathe them everyday and feed them. I monitor our pet fish and its aquarium.
My life is a tornado of feeding and cleaning and keeping things tidy and up, and yes - "keeping a job". I also have plants inside the house, I keep them under the sunshine and water them regularly, aside from the plants outside which I also maintain. I also just recently fixed our back door, putting more locks for security. Most importantly though, I keep a quality life for my son. We read books together, make experiments, "bunot" the floor together and explore the internet together. I am writing this because I am proud to have been raised by my Nanay and Tatay to make use of my faculties to the fullest potential.
There's also a difference in knowing how to do it and actually doing it (which is called discipline). I will be productive until death, and will not wait on someone to keep me alive. I am proud to be a superwoman and I defy those who pretend to close their eyes not to see it. I also understand the malice of distorting definitions so I had to write to confirm that this is me, whether you (choose to) deny it or not.
