What's typical to pay someone to drive kid/pick up from school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

dp pp why are you so mean? Doctors like the op don't need to "cure cancer" to do good for our society! Plus cancer is many diseases not just one! Thank you op and your dh for doing your jobs! Many people appreciate what you do.

Umm. Ok. Bubble girl. Millions of people with kids take care of them and figure it out, make sacrifices,
whatever it takes. The “we are a doctor” household is nauseating. Does this identifier make OP better than the small business owner, the store clerk, the lawyer, the government employee, the bus driver? Being a good parent is much harder than being a doctor.

[Anonymous]

Luckily for OP, two doctors easily earn enough to afford full time help.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Rubirides!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

yea, sorry OP you are too much. you wouldn't have appointments made at 9:30 if you weren't at work. Also I'll just say that in the car time is usually the only time of day I can talk to my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

yea, sorry OP you are too much. you wouldn't have appointments made at 9:30 if you weren't at work. Also I'll just say that in the car time is usually the only time of day I can talk to my child.

What’s up with these judgmental responses? So she should quit her job now? As I read it, OP is saying she has inflexible schedule and seeking ideas regarding transportation. She already said she doesn’t control her calendar, the hospital system does. Many working parents have professions that make childcare difficult. Her situation isn’t unique and neither is her question. If she didn’t specify her profession but just said that she doesn’t control her work schedule, I don’t think we’d see some of these responses. If the mention of her profession is triggering to you, that says more about you than her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

yea, sorry OP you are too much. you wouldn't have appointments made at 9:30 if you weren't at work. Also I'll just say that in the car time is usually the only time of day I can talk to my child.

What’s up with these judgmental responses? So she should quit her job now? As I read it, OP is saying she has inflexible schedule and seeking ideas regarding transportation. She already said she doesn’t control her calendar, the hospital system does. Many working parents have professions that make childcare difficult. Her situation isn’t unique and neither is her question. If she didn’t specify her profession but just said that she doesn’t control her work schedule, I don’t think we’d see some of these responses. If the mention of her profession is triggering to you, that says more about you than her.

She laid on the superiority complex by saying how would we feel if we had an appointment with her at 9:30 and she wasn't there? Actually with most private school drop offs being around 8 am not sure I understand 9:30 but that was the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

yea, sorry OP you are too much. you wouldn't have appointments made at 9:30 if you weren't at work. Also I'll just say that in the car time is usually the only time of day I can talk to my child.

What’s up with these judgmental responses? So she should quit her job now? As I read it, OP is saying she has inflexible schedule and seeking ideas regarding transportation. She already said she doesn’t control her calendar, the hospital system does. Many working parents have professions that make childcare difficult. Her situation isn’t unique and neither is her question. If she didn’t specify her profession but just said that she doesn’t control her work schedule, I don’t think we’d see some of these responses. If the mention of her profession is triggering to you, that says more about you than her.

She laid on the superiority complex by saying how would we feel if we had an appointment with her at 9:30 and she wasn't there? Actually with most private school drop offs being around 8 am not sure I understand 9:30 but that was the problem.

+1. OP is over the top impressed with herself. I have many doctor friends and they love that their profession allows them the flexibility to manage appointments around being with their kids. Kids are first priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll def check into highschool students and teachers, great thoughts!

Hubs and I are both full time physicians working for big hospital systems where we don't control the patients or our schedules so we have no flexibility and cannot just "adjust accordingly" like some have mentioned. That would be great, going to your appt only to be told, oh sorry you can't be seen right now, your doctor is doing car pool duty, come back at 9:30-10am. Wish we would've chosen more flexible professions though esp if we had the forsight of covid!

I can’t stop laughing. What an entitled such and such. Sweet pea - I am sure you are seconds away from curing cancer - but sometimes the child you chose to bear isn’t decor you bring out when convenient for you. Pathetic.

yea, sorry OP you are too much. you wouldn't have appointments made at 9:30 if you weren't at work. Also I'll just say that in the car time is usually the only time of day I can talk to my child.

What’s up with these judgmental responses? So she should quit her job now? As I read it, OP is saying she has inflexible schedule and seeking ideas regarding transportation. She already said she doesn’t control her calendar, the hospital system does. Many working parents have professions that make childcare difficult. Her situation isn’t unique and neither is her question. If she didn’t specify her profession but just said that she doesn’t control her work schedule, I don’t think we’d see some of these responses. If the mention of her profession is triggering to you, that says more about you than her.

She laid on the superiority complex by saying how would we feel if we had an appointment with her at 9:30 and she wasn't there? Actually with most private school drop offs being around 8 am not sure I understand 9:30 but that was the problem.

+1. OP is over the top impressed with herself. I have many doctor friends and they love that their profession allows them the flexibility to manage appointments around being with their kids. Kids are first priority.

I’m not the OP. Why do so many people on DCUM accuse people of bragging? I don’t get that from what the OP wrote.

[Anonymous]

OP, your profession doesn’t make you special. Thousands of local parents have high pressure, busy jobs. The solution is simple: you hire a nanny even if your child is older, you enroll your child in a school that is close to your house or with a bus system that is workable with your schedule, get in a car pool and start work late the days you drive or you work part time until your child can drive themselves. It isn’t that hard. We all do it. Just suck it up and get a nanny.

[Anonymous]

I used HopSkipDrive for my kids and it was great for this. Also, I would arrange for a morning ride but bus on the way home, if it were me. They don't need to be home quickly after school,but I understand not wanting to spend over an hour on the bus in the morning if you can avoid it.

[Anonymous]

I have 2 drivers for this exact thing. One (neighbor) charges $20 per trip per location for a long time. The other (older teenager) charges $30 per trip regardless if they go to the same or different location (everything we do is with 10-12 min). Both are a life saver. I found the teenagers from a summer camp employee listserve that was sent for babysitting needs.

[Anonymous]

Are you still looking for someone?

[Anonymous]

OP, as a fellow physician, you got this. Many, many specialties start on early AM and are simply not home to drive their kids to school. You will find someone but you need to pay well for a good and reliable driver. Frankly best to pay one person for household help/some childcare and driving so they get a reliable salary. It’s harder for the person you are hiring if they have to juggle multiple employers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to pay a lot per hour to find anyone remotely reliable. It’s honestly much better gig to be a full time nanny who is a housekeeper while kid at school.

You’d really need to pay at least 3 hours for all the back and forth. And it’s need to be 30+ per hour. The issue is most people you would trust with a young child in the car alone have a real job, need for higher income that is incompatible with the split schedule. It’s a bit of a unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, as a fellow physician, you got this. Many, many specialties start on early AM and are simply not home to drive their kids to school. You will find someone but you need to pay well for a good and reliable driver. Frankly best to pay one person for household help/some childcare and driving so they get a reliable salary. It’s harder for the person you are hiring if they have to juggle multiple employers.