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Who am I?

Last night I went through an application form which asked me to mention my current working status. I put my pen down to write but the nib wouldn't move. “Who am I?” I started thinking.
I study a lot, but I can't call myself a student because I don't attend a college right now. I employ myself in lots of tasks the whole day but that doesn't make me an employee.
Am I a chef? I cook for myself yes, but that won't qualify me to become a chef!
Wait. I take care of the plants in my backyard so, can I mention myself as a gardener? May be not.
I teach the kids in my street but that would be mean if I call myself a teacher. I even train them in sports once in a while, but no, I'm not going to call myself a physical trainer.
I click pictures in my phone, I'm not a photographer.
I sing to myself so well and I'm not a singer either.
I dance when I feel bored, I write when I feel rejuvenated but that makes me neither a dancer nor a writer by any means.
I've organized a lot of parties at home of late, would someone mind me calling myself an Event Manager? Probably.
Let me think some more.
I have a pet at home. I even have my sister's son to look after. Maybe I'm a babysitter. That sounds weird!
I have to rethink the entire process once again. Now that I'm staying at home throughout the day, should I call myself a home-maker. But I don't think the societal standards permit an unmarried young girl staying at her parents home to introduce herself as a home-maker!
If not any of the above, then who am I?
A film reviewer? Because I watch a lot of films and review them for the sake of my friends?
Or am I a sportsperson? Because I play a lot in the evenings with the kids in the neighborhood?
Maybe I'm a philosopher. I've given great suggestions to people in times of need. Or an orator. I talk a lot and people find my talk attentive enough to be that of a professional orator. No. Even that seems incorrect.
According to the requirements of the application form laying dull and uninteresting in my hands, I am no one with no current working status for myself. Realizing the fact, I put aside the task of filling the form and immediately started browsing for companies which can provide me some work which, though might not mean anything to me, might give me an identity and a working status to tell the world that I'm not lying lazy and jobless all day.
Brushing things aside, am I really lying lazy and jobless all day? Am I nothing to the world or am I everything in the world?
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