Homemakers looking to re-enter the work force after a child-rearing hiatus have long known that prospective employers only have to look at their last job as primary care giver before stamping the top of their application with a single word in big, fat, red letters: REJECT.

Deep down, though, most moms know the only thing they need to do to make the jump from jungle-gym to corporate ladder is some old-fashioned creative resume writing.

It's all a matter of descriptions. Are housewives on a budget with several mouths to feed simply shopping, or are they displaying a mastery of technical accounting and discretionary budget allocation?

And soccer moms -- doomed to shuttle multiple children relentlessly from home to school to activity and back again -- aren't mere driving drones. If you think about it, they've got highly developed expertise in optimal operational networks and just-in-time delivery systems.

Not to mention the fact that most mothers negotiate more deals before breakfast than Donald Trump has done in his lifetime. (Can I take the car tonight? How about another raise in allowance? And why CAN'T I wear this top to school?…).

A bold attempt

Yes, its the world's worst-kept secret: Moms are CEOs, CFOs and human resource managers all rolled into one. Only instead of earning six-figure salaries, most of them do it without thought of remuneration, or even thanks.

But one enterprising woman in Möckmühl, a German village near the town of Heilbronn, apparently looked at the stay-at-home-mom job description and found it wanting. She decided that if she was going to work 24/7 at a thankless job, she might as well try and get a tax break for it. So she applied for a license to run a business out of her home -- "breeding and caring for mammals."

Unfortunately, her business plan ran into something of a snag when environmental authorities checked into the woman's livestock, and found it was her own own offspring.

Technically, the applicant may have the high-ground -- after all, she is, indeed, raising and caring for mammals. Nonetheless the authorities said they plan to deny her application.