Position:  Mother, Mom, Mama, Mommy

Job Description:  Long-term team players needed for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and  frequent twenty-four hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel is required, including trips to primitive camp sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far-away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

Responsibilities:  The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs five dollars.  Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to sixty mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck  zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars, and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.  Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half-million cheap plastic toys and battery-operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

Possibility for Advancement and Promotion:  Virtually none. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

Previous Experience:  None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

Wages and Compensation:  Get this! You pay them, offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

Benefits:  While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays, and no stock options are offered, this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth.  Not to mention, you learn firsthand what it means to be selfless, to give when no getting is coming, to love the unlovable, to serve, to build up another generation; but most of all, to rely on God each and every day!