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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a nanny and still don’t feel like myself.

While I was grateful to still have a job, it was so hard going to work every day for my wealthy employers and hearing the mom say this was the best time of her life, ‘working’ from home (doing yoga, shopping, renovations, buying clothes, making me do non stop expensive Pinterest organization projects, baking bread, getting plastic surgery etc while earning over a million a year) and spending zero time with her kids. I’ve been with the family for many years, so it made me really sad to see them ask her to play and she would say she has to work, but then just went on instagram all day. The dad has his own business and was upstairs 14-16 hours a day working, and we never really saw him for 2 years. Before covid, I used to think they were such great parents, and now it’s just really hard to shake the feeling that they wasted all this time they could have spent with their kids at home.

My bosses kept talking about all the money they saved not commuting or going out, so much that they bought 2 vacation homes during covid, while they would gripe about paying me for things legally required in my state (mileage and overtime).

I feel like covid made me bitter and it makes me so sad, because I used to love my bosses so much and I don’t know how to turn it around. On the other hand, I feel so blessed and loved, having had this special time with the kids, and ill never forget the times we shared. I worked 60-70 hours a week during covid, when the parents were home, and could have been available (mostly the mom, not the dad) but chose not to be. I’ve started therapy to resolve these feelings because I don’t want to leave my job, but yeah, covid changed me.  [/quote]

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