After a smarty pants told me that I could add that to my job description today I thought it was high time I actually wrote it down, so here goes.
(Please note that much if this would never be found on a piece of actual paper)
- teacher
- child minder
- referee
- councillor (...really, now how does that make you feel?)
- nurse, no lets make it doctor
- apprentice builder (it is a hard life holding things in place)
- fencing contractor
- station hand (including yard work, lick runs)
- art critic (Oh that looks nice, very colourful. I love the shapes you used ...)
- chef extraordinaire (ummm dinner? Sausages are on top so curried sausages it is.)
- cleaner
- first aid officer
- disciplinarian
- secretary (I swear I spend as much time answering the phone as I do teaching school)
- gardener
- painter
- baker(yummm cake)
- hair dresser
- technical officer (well you know how to use yours so you must know whats wrong with mine)
- artist
- resource developer (someone has to come up with the fun number and alphabet games)
- photographer
- weather presenter
- furniture removalist
- rubbish disposalist (well burner)
- examiner
- story teller
- shop assistant
- editor
- producer
- audience (sometime reluctant)
- detective
- treasure hunter
- personal shopper (The first day I went shopping with my boss we got four trolleys full ... then we had to fit it in the car. Since that fateful day I have done many a shop myself)
- packer
- taxi (getting kids to cluster is such hard work)
- coach
- tow vehicle/rescue
- spotter (for roos, boggy patches, how close)
- animal husbandry expert
- butchers apprentice
- emergency carer
- electrician (darn powers out, nope not the fuses, bloody generator)
- plumber
- diesel mechanic (well checking the water, oil and filling the generator with diesel must count for something)
- parts photographer (so they can repair the stinking generator so we don't have to use the crank one)
- scientist
- metal detector
- life saver (I'm the Queen of the dam)
- supervisor
- events manager (how else would we get Fun Friday ... and I do share knowledge about coming events)
- official wet season gate person (VERY important job, I swear the only reason I was invited on the emergency shopping trips was to open the gates)
- repair person
- computer technician (honestly if you know one thing about a computer you must know everything)
- freight carrier (who else would bring all that important stuff home)
- DJ
- washer woman
- goat wrangler (the stinking things got into the yard AGAIN)
- judge ( I don't care who was on there first the rule is one at a time so you a banned for the rest of the day ... hmmm harsh)
- mail lady
- entertainer/hostess
- musterer (okay so that one is really stretching the truth, I walked and trotted on a horse to the creek and back but then again I have helped out in a ute)
- dog trainer
- maid
Well the list keeps going
(some things may be stretching the truth just a bit)
I hear you, I was a cook on a cattle station in QLD and I was all this and more as well. Fantastic time. Enjoy! Bushbelles
ReplyDeleteHonestly I think I would get bored if I didn't do everything else plus it is part of properly experiencing the lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE IT...people ask me all the time what is a governess is. They just don't get that it isn't just about one thing. It touches on everything.
ReplyDeleteLove it