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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I see, nanny housekeepers earn less, not more. They're more like mother's helpers who'll do a bit of everything, whatever mom wants, but they need lots of daily direction.[/quote]

No, the parent offers a lot of daily direction, whether the nanny/housekeeper needs or wants it.  I don't need to be shone how to clean a toilet in the children's room, yet I had an MB who felt she needed to show me twice and then watch me do it.  Sorry, but her way was less sanitary, so I showed her my way, took the same amount of time, less mess and fewer germs leftover for next time.  And yes, they're typically paid more, because the parents are the ones who want "to get their money's worth," rather than having someone concentrate on the kids.[/quote]

^^paid less to do more[/quote]

Exactly. They "get their monies worth" by getting more work out of the same salary, I don't know how the PP equated getting monies worth to paying them more money... must be smoking something.[/quote]

I corrected myself, fingers were too slow to keep up with the brain...  I meant to type paid less to do more in the paragraph.[/quote]

Oh haha, I thought you were a different poster correcting the one above =D[/quote]

Nope.  I've had positions that were nanny/housekeeper, just nanny, nanny/homeschool teacher, nanny/household manager and nanny/family assistant.  Any of the others are better than nanny/housekeeper, because the parents have a set list of things that fall into my purview.  When the job is nanny/housekeeper, everything is thrown in when the parent decides it fits.  Dog is misbehaving?  Nanny can fit it in during the day, it shouldn't be much different than dealing with a child.  Toilet is backed up because parents let the kid put trucks down it last night?  She's a housekeeper, she can fix toilets, right?  Errands are too much bother for parents?  Well, she's going to get groceries, she can do the 5-8 errands on the way back.  Oh, the ice cream melted because we kept texting a new thing she needed to do on the way home?  Well, it's her fault, she can buy the kids more out of her check.

No way am I doing nanny/housekeeper again.  Any of the others are available for discussion, as long as the tasks involved clearly fall into the role and I'm paid for whichever labels apply, not just one.[/quote]

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