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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Nanny & may be in the minority here, but there are many people out there who do not like watching kids every single day.

So these people would be happy taking on a part-time gig.
And it is false that an employer should offer higher pay for less hours because they cannot offer more hours!
What other jobs out there offer more p/h for part-time work.....??!

Also, YES.....Younger Nannies DO spend more time on their Smartphones via the older ones.
It is only natural since they were raised always having to be connected.
They have zero memory of a time when people did not always have to be within reach all the time.[/quote]

Any job that is less desirable will have to offer better compensation.  That is basic supply/demand economics. So if OP is offering an undesirable schedule (long enough hours and enough days to make another PT job hard to find but not enough hours to be a full-time job), then she will have to either extend her job search until she finds someone willing to work that schedule for that pay who doesn’t suck, or she will need to make the job more desirable.  She could do that by adjusting the hours (such as by having the nanny come in 5 days a week and leave early enough to get to a typical after-school gig), or by extending the hours to make it a full-time position or by paying enough that someone is willing to run the risk of not finding a compatible weekend gig.

One other thought for OP: you could consider looking at a nanny share.  A lot of families might be interested in a share where the other kid is only there 2/3 of the time.[/quote]

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