Split schedule: would you take this job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 hrs is barely enough to go to the gym. Once toy check in, change, work out, maybe hit the pool or sauna, your time is done and you still have to shower and change and go get the kids.

Nice luxury life you live! If I have an hour for the gym I feel quite lucky.

[Anonymous]

I think there are some people who wouldn't mind doing the type of job you listed OP. Esp. since she lives close by. She can use the two hours to run her own errands or perhaps go back to sleep.

If I really needed a job, I would take one like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are some people who wouldn't mind doing the type of job you listed OP. Esp. since she lives close by. She can use the two hours to run her own errands or perhaps go back to sleep.

If I really needed a job, I would take one like this.

Right. We all would. But then- when a job came around with consolidated hours you would leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For additional context around timing: preschool is at most 15 minutes from home, in bad traffic. Staff meets kids at door for drop off/pick up. Gym that she belongs to is half way between our house and the preschool. Her house is 15 minutes from the preschool. Time between drop off and pick up is 3.5 hrs so at minimum, on a bad day, there are at least 2.5 hrs available to her to do whatever she wants.

The break isn't the big issue. The issue is that you want a lot of flexibility on random days. School holidays. Winter. Sick days. In the summer you want a different schedule. So many changes.

[Anonymous]

That's a lot of variation in the schedule. I can see that some people might like it--they could use the time to run errands, see the doctor, go to the gym, but others would not--you have a long day, but you aren't getting paid for all the hours. What really matters is whether your nanny wants to do it.

[Anonymous]

OP here. We will probably have a schedule that looks like this:

Mon, Fri: 8-9; 11:30-5:30 (14 hrs)
Tues, Thurs: 8-5:30 (19 hrs)
Wed: 11:30-5:30 (6 hrs)

Summer would likely be 8-5:30 Mon-Thurs with Fridays off.

[Anonymous]

I don't care what non-nannies say, because everything about nannying sounds cushy to those who aren't doing it.

OP, my answer is HELL NO. Ask your candidate what she thinks, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care what non-nannies say, because everything about nannying sounds cushy to those who aren't doing it.

OP, my answer is HELL NO. Ask your candidate what she thinks, though.

+1 I am the nanny who thought she would love the split schedule and hated it who posted earlier. Try to find someone who will do it and see how long she lasts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We will probably have a schedule that looks like this:

Mon, Fri: 8-9; 11:30-5:30 (14 hrs)
Tues, Thurs: 8-5:30 (19 hrs)
Wed: 11:30-5:30 (6 hrs)

Summer would likely be 8-5:30 Mon-Thurs with Fridays off.

So rather than pay Nanny to be available 5 additional hours a week, you will give her a break unless you do need her to work last minute when your child is sick, or has a day off of school, or... I wouldn't take this job because I would have no guarantee that if i scheduled an appointment I would actually get to GO to said appointment.

Pay a full 19 hours for M and F, and have Nanny do child related chores or errands during school.

And if you are doing the split because it's the only way you can afford a Nanny, you might want to explore other childcare options.

[Anonymous]

No, I will not take that job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We will probably have a schedule that looks like this:

Mon, Fri: 8-9; 11:30-5:30 (14 hrs)
Tues, Thurs: 8-5:30 (19 hrs)
Wed: 11:30-5:30 (6 hrs)

Summer would likely be 8-5:30 Mon-Thurs with Fridays off.

So rather than pay Nanny to be available 5 additional hours a week, you will give her a break unless you do need her to work last minute when your child is sick, or has a day off of school, or... I wouldn't take this job because I would have no guarantee that if i scheduled an appointment I would actually get to GO to said appointment.

Pay a full 19 hours for M and F, and have Nanny do child related chores or errands during school.

And if you are doing the split because it's the only way you can afford a Nanny, you might want to explore other childcare options.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We will probably have a schedule that looks like this:

Mon, Fri: 8-9; 11:30-5:30 (14 hrs)
Tues, Thurs: 8-5:30 (19 hrs)
Wed: 11:30-5:30 (6 hrs)

Summer would likely be 8-5:30 Mon-Thurs with Fridays off.

So rather than pay Nanny to be available 5 additional hours a week, you will give her a break unless you do need her to work last minute when your child is sick, or has a day off of school, or... I wouldn't take this job because I would have no guarantee that if i scheduled an appointment I would actually get to GO to said appointment.

Pay a full 19 hours for M and F, and have Nanny do child related chores or errands during school.

And if you are doing the split because it's the only way you can afford a Nanny, you might want to explore other childcare options.

She doesn't WANT to work more. She's feeling burned out from a job that's had her working 7-6 or later.

[Anonymous]

Yes only because she only wants 35-45 hrs a week and lives 6 min. 6 min is nothing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We will probably have a schedule that looks like this:

Mon, Fri: 8-9; 11:30-5:30 (14 hrs)
Tues, Thurs: 8-5:30 (19 hrs)
Wed: 11:30-5:30 (6 hrs)

Summer would likely be 8-5:30 Mon-Thurs with Fridays off.

So rather than pay Nanny to be available 5 additional hours a week, you will give her a break unless you do need her to work last minute when your child is sick, or has a day off of school, or... I wouldn't take this job because I would have no guarantee that if i scheduled an appointment I would actually get to GO to said appointment.

Pay a full 19 hours for M and F, and have Nanny do child related chores or errands during school.

And if you are doing the split because it's the only way you can afford a Nanny, you might want to explore other childcare options.

She doesn't WANT to work more. She's feeling burned out from a job that's had her working 7-6 or later.

Wait. OP is posting a schedule to see what others think of it, even though she has a nanny that has agreed to the schedule? Why even ask then? If she's happy then she's happy.