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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody thinks the gap year will backfire? Nannies make good money compared to peers at 18-25. But their potential for advancement and higher salary dead ends.[/quote]

At which point the OP's sensible, level-headed daughter will realize that she needs to go to college. This is also the experience of the nannies who have posted on this thread.[/quote]
The barrier of going to college in your mid-20s just to get a bachelors is much harder to overcome than just doing it while you have the momentum at 18. I have a friend who got a job as a secretary right out of school making 40k when the rest of us were making 25k and she is still a secretary 20 years later. [/quote]

I'm the earlier nanny poster. I actually did start college with my peers. I was unfocused and unmotivated, lost my scholarship, and screwed up my GPA. I have since transferred schools and changed majors. I agree that there is a slight loss of momentum, but now in my mid 20's I can really understand WHY I need to do this, how expensive it really is, and I will graduate this spring with a 4.0 (at my new school), very little debt, and enough in my savings to buy a home. I am looking at a pay-cut as a make the switch out of nannying, which is hard to swallow, but overall I'm in a much better position than most of my peers. They are up to their eye balls in student loans, have very little work experience, no savings, and they're making the same $30k I will be when I switch careers. [/quote]

Again it's about management and decision making. I can think of 5 people right of the bat that are probably your age 24 to 30 with very little student loan debt, decent savings, have or are planning to buy a home in the future with salaries that are above your $30k and  they have something you do not have 2 to 5 years on the job experience something that is very valuable in 
today's job market. All work experience is not the same.[/quote]

I said I will be making $30k when I get out of nannying. I make significantly more than that now. I also have 5 years of work experience, and while you might not value it, I've gained a lot of skills that take much longer to learn in an office. Your attitude is a bit offensive. This industry works very well for a lot of people, and not everyone defines success in the same manner. [/quote]

You can be offended all day young lady. I'm not here to appease the daydreams of an internet millenial who has it all figured out based on a degree she has yet to earn and a job she does not have.

I suspect these peers you think you are superior to are 3 of your friends with no direction or job / career planning skills.

You have 5 years work experience as a nanny. If you wanted to be a nanny that is great. There are day cares that do not credit nanny experience  and that is an analogous field. Your 5 years as a nanny is not 5 years as a nurse, teacher, lab tech, dentist etc that those in your age bracket have of on the job experience.   You are starting 5 years back. You can believe all you want employers don't notice this, but they do. 
You are delusional if you think you are the only one in your age range who makes more than $30k and knows how to negotiate many make more than $30k.
Finish your degree, Land the job and then come back and tell how you have it all figured out and are far superior to your peers. 
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I never claimed to have everything figured out. I said that spending time as a nanny would not be the worst thing in the world for OPs DD. One thing I have figured out is how to be compassionate and to speak kindly to others. Even you, in your infinite wisdom, do not have everything figured out. [/quote]

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