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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are household managers even a thing? Like, are there people who have such job?[/quote]

I am a nanny/household manager.  My charges are 4 and 3 and their parents are a typical 2-career DC power couple type.  I manage all the paperwork for the children’s preschool/medical/summer camp/tutors/sports and so on.  I trim their nails, take them to get haircuts and make sure we always have toothpaste.  I research, vet, hire and schedule weekend sitters.  I do all shopping, meal-planning and cooking for the family most weeks (including pre-portioning things for Boss’s diet plan and packing salads for Other Boss’s lunch).  I manage the weekly cleaners and gardeners.  I run all the little errands like dry-cleaning.  I wait on the phone with customer service.  I schedule home repairs with our handyman or call the plumber.  In the last month I booked a storage unit, hired/supervised a packing service and hired/supervised movers when they decided to sell a vacation home.  I also booked flights, hotel rooms and car service for upcoming travel and I will be in charge of packing the children’s bags, hiring a dogwalker while we are gone and managing the children during the entire trips, days and nights.  The month before that, I ran a fundraising project at the preschool and updated the children’s wardrobes for spring.  [/quote]

Our nanny does this...she also organizes closets and drawers, ensures DC’s have appropriate clothing, monitors the school calendars for things like spirit and cultural day, keeps a family calendar, arranges play dates, researches summer camps/tutors/sports, etc, makes routine doctor/dentist appointments and takes DCS supervised homework, buys the majority of gifts and wraps them. I have no need to manage.  She does most without any discussion or a simple text.  I get home from work, I eat with my family and relax.[/quote]

Serious question. Someone with the energy and executive functioning skills to do all of that (plus be an emotionally astute caregiver to kids!) seems like THEY could be an executive with a big job. How much do you have to pay a top-notch nanny like that, and why don't they work in other fields?[/quote]

NP.  We pay ours about $75-$80K a year.  She loves kids, so that's why she wants to be a nanny, but she was also willing to transition to more of a house manager as they got older in order to remain in their lives.[/quote]

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