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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores :-) Plus I am paid $21/hour. I am a graduate student and have often nannied for professor families. I've noticed that they don't expect any duties besides childcares. I don't even do the babies laundry. [/quote]

You sound proud of being paid more than you're worth. They could replace you in a minute for a $15/hour nanny, that would happily do the basic task of baby laundry.  :roll: [/quote]

I only work 14 hours/week so my take home pay isn't very high. My MB told me what she wants me to do with those 2-3 hours to myself is to rest, exercise, talk on the phone, whatever will recharge me so that that I am at my most energetic, most patient, and cheeriest for her children. She loves to see me spending that time studying, since she figures it will ease my evening workload and help me get more sleep for the next day. I have worked for 3 different professor/teacher families and they have all had the same expectations for me as my current job. I've also worked for families who expected me to do SO much and I will never work for those families again. I think it all depends on what is expected and agreed upon. Caring for children is tough work...mental as well as physical.

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That explains a lot.  A 14 hour a week job is really more like a steady babysitting gig than a professional nanny position.  Most full-time professional nanny jobs have a much broader scope of work, because the number of hours that the parents are away from home requires that more parental/meal prep/house manager-type duties be outsourced.[/quote]

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