Would this be impossible to find?
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Anonymous
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Our family is looking to possibly move out in the country--about 45 minutes outside of the metro area. We both have odd commutes and DD and DS go to privates. One of the ideas we've been playing with is finding someone for 2 hours every morning to get them ready and drive them to school. We could pay above-standard milage and $20 an hour, but not sure how impossible it would be to find someone reliable for that limited kind of role.
I know there are too many variables that would ultimately figure in (how likely someone would be to live close to us to begin with etc) but overall--is this arrangement a crazy idea? BTW, DS and DD are both under 8 so Uber is out of the question. |
Anonymous
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Post your ad and see what comes up. There might be someone with an odd schedule who may want to earn a little money in the mornings.
A friend who is a nanny in Los Angeles doesn't start work until 10:30. A second job like yours would be perfect for her. |
Anonymous
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It isn't impossible to find. I didn't need these spedific hours, but needed someone for other very part time work because I taught a class two days a week. My issue with this is that it is really hard to get your employee to stop considering this job as something to earn extra money during his/her free time and instead considering their hours of employment to be extended. Maybe this is something you can screen for during the interview? I thought I impressed on applicants how important it was to me that they, and in turn I, are able to make it to work. That was actually more important to me than how well they took care of my children with such limited hours (so long as basic needs were met). Maybe ask people if they are really comfortable working from 7am-7pm every day instead of 10:30am-7:00pm. That's a huge change in lifestyle. They days are much longer, you can't stay out late at night very often, etc.
What I found was that even competent, hard working people who would never miss work in their regular employment had no problem calling me because they had to schedule an appointment during that time or something came up in their social lives, etc, and I would be scrambling for childcare. |
Anonymous
| You might need to increase your hourly rate. |
Anonymous
This and make sure you are paying for their return trip after drop off. Don't just pay for time at your house and drop off. |
Anonymous
Do you mean milage or hours? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that most dont pay milage for folks to drive to the job or drive home, so that should be a sweetener here and we'd be happy to offer it (within, say, a 10 mile radius) so 3-way milage and maybe just a flat $50 per day offer (time at our house and driving to school will often take less than 90 minutes total, but with traffic could sometimes take up to 2 hours)...still might be hard, but that is still within the range (tight now) of possibility. I do agree that the trick will be finding someone who could really make it a priority--and I wouldnt blame someone. $50 a day plus milage isnt something worth sacrificing for. |
Anonymous
Post your ad, but also ask around. Maybe another parent would let you drop off your child in the morning. Some parents might agree if you did afternoon pickup; others might prefer to make it a more formal babysitting arrangement for pay. And remember that their child wouldn't need to be in the same grade as either of your children. |
Anonymous
You need to pay for her to drive from your house back to your house in terms of hours. |
Anonymous
The person doesn't need to go back to her house. |
Anonymous
That depends on whose car the nanny is using. |
Anonymous
She needs to pay extra for the return trip regardless of where it is at. |
Anonymous
| Maybe an older person or a student would do this? |