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> Coming in at number one is “family assistant,” which usually involves some combination of cooking, cleaning, childcare, running errands, coordinating schedule
by h2odragon 4y ago
> Coming in at number one is “family assistant,” which usually involves some combination of cooking, cleaning, childcare, running errands, coordinating schedules and handling other household administrative tasks.
So we have a new term for "home maker" or "house wife" again. And a pay scale.
- ElfinTrousers 4y ago"Servant" I think is the term here. True, it's not a term we've heard much since the Gilded Age, but as long as we're doing a retro Gilded Age economy we might as well recycle the vocabulary.
- type0 4y agoBrits would call the profession Valet e.g. Jeeves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves
- ElfinTrousers 4y agoOh me and Reggie Jeeves go way back. But I'm pretty sure that being the brains of an operation like Wooster and Jeeves holds no appeal for me.