Occupation: Stay At Home Friend
Whenever I fill out the "occupation" field on the Internet or otherwise respond to queries about what I do, I'm pretty straightforward: I call myself a "stay at home friend". (Sometimes I'm a "stay at home 'friend'".)
Yet somehow there is a stunning lack of search engine results that associate me with the term "stay at home friend." I know this, of course, because I Scroogled it.
I used quotes around the phrase to try to weed out references to other types of stay at home people. It didn't work as well as I'd hoped. Now, I know I didn't invent the phrase "stay at home friend," however, I have been using it for quite some time; I sort of expected there to be more evidence.
Instead, I'm relegated to #62 in Scroogle's SERPs and the listing isn't even for one of my domains! It's a link to my Lovemarks profile. Of course it would be a profile page; that's usually where one is likely to find an occupational blank to fill in. Also, I haven't made enough of an effort to get the Internet to associate echo with the phrase stay-at-home-friend.
Starting now, I will. Tomorrow I'll tell you why.
Hello! My name is echo and I'm a stay at home friend. How do you do?
NaBloPoMo!
Monday August 03 2009: it echoes to this day...
