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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think anyone with a strong bench of occasional families she sits for who is happy with a DO/PU job that also is an "on call" job ... doesn't really want a regular gig. She'd have found one years ago if she did.

This DO/PU job pays her enough to take as much or as little occasional sitting as she wants, I presume, and she's not willing to dump it for 2x/wk of sitting for two months.

To be fair, you aren't offering her a job that justifies pissing off the family that pays her every day all year. It sounds like you'll use her "regularly," but not guarantee anything? You also have no idea what this other family is paying her. It may be more than you think.[/quote]

I think she would be happy with a regular gig that gives her more hours than the other family does, which is only five hours/day, split up between morning and afternoon.  But probably not full-time and it's hard finding that middle ground.

The job I was offering to her was actually 20 hours weekly and because she is our longest-standing sitter, I was willing to squeeze our schedule within her DO/PU schedule, which I wouldn't do for anyone else.  That's $1700 ($17/hr * 20 hrs * 5 weeks) for the five weeks she is able to work, guaranteed pay during those weeks.  While I agree that the stability of the other family's income is very attractive to her, I also think it's crazy for her to essentially turn down a job in the off-chance one of the kids might get sick over the summer months.

I have some sense of how much she gets paid because the other mom told me when she acted as the sitter's reference.  $20/hr for two kids.  But I don't know how much extra she is paying to have the sitter on call.  As I said, it can't be that much because then that means the mom could afford a nanny.[/quote]

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