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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm new to being a nanny. The family I work for is very nice but I never imagined I'd be a nanny, doing laundry, straightening up and shopping for someone else. I also read on DCUM that nannys shouldn't talk about their personal life with their MB/DB. Do you ever feel like a second class citizen? Are you ever ashamed to tell people you're a nanny?[/quote]

I often think about that as I'm folding laundry at 2:30 in the afternoon. I'm 25, nannied through college, taught and now I'm in my first year back to nannying. When my boyfriend or parent ask how my day was, I feel really silly telling them about it - or when I complain about a long day I also feel pretty dumb. When people ask what I do, I often throw in that I used to be a teacher and now am nannying until I figure out what I want to do, but the truth is I have no idea what I want to do. My degree is in early childhood education and child development, I know I want to work with children but I also know I don't want to teach forever. Being ambitious to leave nannying is tough because I'm making twice as much as I was when I was teaching, plus I have no living expenses because I live in their separate basement apartment. I do love my charge and my family and I think I'm a really good nanny, but yes, for me, it doesn't feel like it's good enough. [/quote]

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