Like being a baby-naming expert:
According to an article in The Wall Street Journal the professional baby naming business is booming. Anxious almost-parents are paying up to $350 for baby naming consultation that includes phone interviews and packets of name options with name histories, linguistic origins and personality traits, all information that is easily found online for free. The naming "experts" weed through millions of name choices and then deliver a handful of options that fit the parents' vision for their baby. (Psychology Today)
Now there's a job that just about any novelist could do, since we spend so much time thinking over such things. How on earth do you get "certified" for such a thing?? That's a "truth is stranger than fiction" job.
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re: How on earth do you get "certified" for such a thing??
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This certifies the London Mabel is an accredited Baby Naming Consultant.
Signed this day _____________ (date) by (name)_______
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There ya go -- now just fancify the above text with a nice diploma and frame and hang it on your wall. Congratulations! A nice website will help too then just watch the moola roll in.
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"Anxious almost-parents are paying up to $350 for baby naming consultation that includes phone interviews and packets of name options with name histories, linguistic origins and personality traits, all information that is easily found online for free. The naming "experts" weed through millions of name choices and then deliver a handful of options that fit the parents' vision for their baby."
Heh. God bless America. Land of expertly gouging the upper middle classes in new and innovative ways.
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