Anonymous wrote:Are you a live in?

I am a live in. But I have somewhere to go (between jobs). I just want to minimise the time between jobs so that I don't have employment gaps and can make payments ect

Are you a live in?

Anonymous wrote:You two sound like agency workers.

I'm the OP and I'm a nanny (not an agency worker), who's position is ending and I have two months to find a new position. But now that I have seriously started looking for a new position it seems like most of the jobs I would be a match for want me to start at the wrong time!! Its really disheartening

You two sound like agency workers.

Half the jobs are complete non-starters offering minimum wage or less! A good number lack any type of guaranteed hours or PTO. The rest are jobs that involve a bazillion kids in multi multi family nanny share, part time positions, or other strange things. You are lucky to find a few normal job positions that every nanny in a 3 state area is trying to get. Wait until you get to the final interviews and find out that you lost out to a nanny asking for several dollars less an hour. Good luck.

I always keep an eye on what jobs are on offer and it always seems like there are a ton of jobs until I actually had to start looking. Once you have to match start dates with the end date of your current job the number of jobs seems much less