RE: Steem Basic Income Giveaway: Your Job....
Neither of my "jobs" are viewed as "real" by many people because I don't make money, and I stopped doing the only "real" job I had because I wasn't into it anymore XD
My primary job is parent. I just have a bit more responsibility over the educational side of things because homeschooling ;D Now that they can all read and do maths and seem somewhat okay at critical thinking (I can't really tell as I apparently operate on deviant logic) I'm more facilitator than educator these days and everything is mostly managerial and logistics (and a daily reminder of why I don't work in admin, management or logistics). I reckon if I was doing this as a "real" job with "real" people (because only adults are real?) I'd be pulling six figures, especially if I have to be dealing with obnoxious adults (I have a special hatred for them because they absolutely should know better, I hate obnoxius teens but at least it's somewhat developmentally appropriate and they're learning).
My other job is my pet project. I probably need a new setup that won't further destroy my already destroyed shoulder, but money and priorities. Maybe one day it will be my primary job but for now I'm stuck in an infernal catch 22 XD
Obviously both are home based and my place is a mess. I try to keep it clean at least but tidy ain't nobody got time for dat.
It's weird that the economy relies on so many people like you... who do unpaid work... when it is the sort of thing that enables other people to do "productive" work. One day, this sort of work will be actually valued... after all, if people didn't do it, society and the economy would fall over... however, it just isn't priced in.
I'm impressed that you can do the home-schooling... I would find it pretty difficult, too much boundary crossing between the parent and educator roles for my liking!
I don't compartmentalise that much, the parent and educator roles are the same as far as I'm concerned, I just kept going XD And even if you use the school system you're still faciliating because you're the one ultimately responsible for which school your kid uses and you still have to be pretty involved XD (or at least the high school my daughter tried out seemed to try really hard to involve the parents in all aspects which was great except I quite simply could not cope with the extra demands and J works full time).
The volunteer/unpaid work is valued (or at least should be, if the person you're doing it for isn't appreciating/valuing it they will when you've had enough and stop or if they don't you're probably better off not dealing with their entitled arse anyway ;D). And that's the thing that will keep the world going if/when the economy collapses XD
The winners of this SBI Giveaway and the next question (Your Childhood Toy...) can be found here:
https://steemit.com/contest/@bengy/steem-basic-income-giveaway-favourite-childhood-toy