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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people on dcum say anything is for “a college student” they usually mean they don’t want to pay the market rate. I think it’s usually a fantasy about an employee who wants to work weird hours for a low rate. But in your case perhaps a dog whistle. [/quote]

It’s not a fantasy. My neighbor’s son was home for college, but taking an online class that met mid-morning and it meant he couldn’t get a “regular job”. My other neighbor has kids who are home from camp at 3pm. She hired him to pick up her kids and watch them for a few hours. It’s a very niche thing to only need coverage for 90 min to 3 hours a day. No one would commute for that job.

A different neighbor literally needs coverage from 4:30-6pm daily because her husband is a reporter who is often filing stories at 5pm. She found a preschool teacher who works a mile away who gets off work at 4pm and then comes over on her way home.

College students and people who work at businesses that open late or close early often have 2-4hr chunks of time they want to fill with paid work. [/quote]

It is a fantasy. Your examples are unicorns. The “after school for a few hours” is the job every parent wants to hire for and no one wants to do consistently unless you pay a LOT, and even then, they’ll throw you over the minute a better offer comes along.[/quote]

This.
I need an hour of care for my 6yo first grader each day.  I can’t find it so, instead, we have resorted to paying a local daycare center nearly $800/month for her to be enrolled in their aftercare program.  They provide transportation from school and care from 3 to as late as 6PM, but I don’t need that.  All I really need is someone to get her off the bus and watch her for an additional hour.  we are willing to pay very well for this, but that person doesn’t exist.[/quote]

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