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[quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't do their laundry, make their beds, vacuum their entire house, or dust. If an employer were to ask me to take on those tasks, it would cost them about $400 more per week.

I do load/empty the dishwasher, take out kitchen and diaper trash, do all the cooking for my charges, do family groceries and errands, vacuum the main living/play area every other week, do kid laundry, organize toys/outgrown clothes, etc. [/quote]

I wouldn't hire you because the tasks that you list don't take much time at all. My kids nap for at least 3.5 hours every afternoon. This is 12.5 hours a week on top of a daily one hour break. It takes 10 minutes to unload the dishwasher. Kid laundry is not a daily task and no one needs someone organizing outgrown clothes more than a few times a year. [b]You are just being dishonest trying to claim that any of these things add up to actual work. [/b]

I pay our nanny a reasonable rate which may or may not be more than your rate + 400 to actually do something during nap time. Luckily, my nanny has a good work ethic which I think is the real probably with so many nannies on this site. You have no work ethic. You only want to maximize your downtime or expect some extra compensation to get yourself off the couch. [b]You will not go far with this approach.[/b] [/quote]

Yes, you got me. The 8+ hours a week** I spend on the listed tasks are in no way "real work", and I obviously shouldn't expect to make it as a nanny. Darn, and I was almost at the 20 year mark too!

**load/empty dishwasher - 20 mins - daily - 100 min/week
Trash duty - 5 mins - daily - 25/week
Cooking for my charges - 40 mins - daily (sample menu: grilled chicken, risotto, roasted cauliflower, steamed broccoli, clementines) - 200/week
Vacuum - 20 mins -bi-weekly - 10/week
Laundry - 20 mins - twice a week - 8/week
Family groceries - 2 hours - weekly - 120/week
Family Errands - 1 hour - weekly - 60/week
General tidying and picking up toys - 20 mins - daily[/quote]

There will be no making them understand nannydeb. How can they? They only hire nannies who will perform these duties for them and more, so the 30 minutes of "tidying" they do on the weekends (or leave for nanny on Monday because that's what you pay her to do right) seems like nothing and therefore nanny must have it made during the week! With multiple charges on different nap schedules that may or may not happen from day to day, this fairy tale hour break the MBs have been so gracious enough to grant us often never happens. [/quote]

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