Since I'm hanging up my accountant career on a peg for the next 18 years and being a stay at home mom (because that's what good Army wives do...and I'm too cheap to pay for daycare) I still plan on calling myself an accountant because those that call themselves 'full time moms' usually do it because they've failed at everything else in life. I've an accounting degree, no one can take away I'm an accountant. I'm just unemployed by choice. :D

Of course, I thought you were a reporter, not a writer. "Writer" is one of those jobs that you pat someone on the head and say 'oh, so you're looking for work?' Anyone can write... as evidenced by my writing right here... well, typing, but anyway.... what is the final product used for? Novelists produce novels, for example. Columunists write colums for publications. Writer is just a verb turned noun.