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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read an ad for a live-in nanny.  Free room and board in exchange for as much childcare as they need, no wage.  Oh, and the nanny has to provide a safe, dependable car.[/quote]

So, this family is looking for a homeless person to watch their children?  [/quote]

I do live-in exclusively, and so I see tons of parents advertising for childcare in exchange for room and board, but the hours wouldn't let the nanny get another position.  They seem to feel that because they only need three hours per day they shouldn't have to pay anything because 15 hours of childcare is reasonable in exchange for rent and food.  But when the schedule changes every week, the nanny can't get another position.  And when the family's main hours are the hour before school, the hours after school, from 6-7pm or noon-1pm on the weekends, how in the world is the nanny going to make any money?  I worked a position like that for a year, with the understanding that it would only be a year and the family would give me a glowing rec.  Of course they didn't, what they did was submit a W-2 to the IRS stating that I was paid $15k for the year (the amount they valued room and board at), so I had a headache figuring everything out with the IRS so that I wouldn't have to pay taxes on my supposed income.

What really got me laughing was that the nanny has to provide a safe, dependable car.  There's no way that the nanny would be able to keep it insured and licensed, and keep herself licensed, not without some form of monetary compensation.

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