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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know why you want a career nanny. You want someone who is professional and good with kids. That is different from a career nanny who I define as someone who's made a career out of being a nanny for at least 10 years and doesn't have plans to get into a different career field.

1. They are way too savvy at being an employee and you as an employer is a "beginner" and there is a risk of being railroaded. For instance a good professional nanny will be open to putting away off season kids' clothes. A career nanny will say "that's not in the job description." It may not come to a face to face confrontation like that but small things will happen each day where a career nanny makes a decision that ___ is not part of her job. You won't even know about it. You'll only care that the kids are safe and do well with her but you could be getting a lot more from another good but not "career" nanny.

2. A good nanny can be paid less. A career nanny will want to be paid significantly more but whether she is actually better than a "good" nanny is a luck of the draw. I've seen many career nannies be no better than more motivated non-career nannies.

3. Similar to #1 but career nannies will manage you. They've been playing the game for 20 years. They know what to say if they don't want to do something or how they do potty training for the past 20 years is different from how you do it. They have made a career out of knowing how to push back, set expectations, and ultimately do things the way they want to do it. If they kept "losing" they would not be happy campers and would not have made a career out of it.

I would not recommend a career nanny. A career nanny is better than a "just out of school kid with no other options" or "immigrant with no other options and bad english" type nanny. But there are other good nannies out there, not career, who are better.[/quote]

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