No jobs are secure, OP, and you can be laid off at anytime for reasons you don't respect. That's life.

Your life will be less stressful if you stopped judging how others make choices about how they wish to allocate their resources.

You may also want to reconsider nannying as a profession.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it sucks.
However, the bigger issue is: you don't have enough in savings to last you 5 weeks?! Let this be an expensive lesson to you. Save your money. Live within your means. You should have enough savings where you could survive for at least 6 months if necessary.

This is OP.

HAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

What a great response. So helpful. I don't live in the DC area (or the US for that matter), but rather in an area where nannies are not particularly well paid but the COL is high. I have been barely scraping by, making just a hair over minimum wage, for the last 18 months. I have also been making payments on my student loans. I have also been trying to do things like eat and buy new clothes when my old ones disintegrate.

You are either one of those mythical $35/hour nannies, or a MB very disconnected from the reality of living on a low income. I'm 21, halfway done a university degree, and completely financially independent from my family. Give me 100 other people in that situation and I can guarantee you none of them have 6 months worth of money stashed away somewhere.

HAHAH

Thank you everyone else who chimed in. I am sending out resumes like mad to all sorts of jobs and hopefully something will stick. I'm happy to work a crappy job for 5 weeks if it means I can pay my bills.

Seems like you have made a lot of bad choices then. If it is very expensive to live in your area and nannies are not well paid I don't see why you would choose to be a nanny and put yourself in this position. Good luck in the future and I hope you can make better choices as you mature.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it sucks.
However, the bigger issue is: you don't have enough in savings to last you 5 weeks?! Let this be an expensive lesson to you. Save your money. Live within your means. You should have enough savings where you could survive for at least 6 months if necessary.

You're a clueless moron. Most lower income people are just surviving, and are literally not able to save save save. Especially a young, presumably unattached person who's trying to get through school too. I don't know, nor care whether you're a holier than thou nanny or an MB who hasn't had to go hungry before, but the reality is most people live paycheck to paycheck. That's why most families have both parents working. If most families need two incomes to get by then doesn't stand to reason that the average single income nanny household would have most of her income eaten by housing, transportation and food? Get out of lala land and join us here in the real world.

OP, look for another summer job, and if it means leaving your current job sooner than a month, then so be it. If you aren't able to secure anything, then post an ad on craigslist offering ad hoc and last minute services. Be proactive, starting RIGHT NOW.

If you're financially responsible, it's very possible. I'm a nanny -- no, not one of the $35/hr nannies -- I have student loans and bills like many others. I still manage to put away money every single month. But sure, make excuses. OP made the decision to accept such a low paying job in a high COL area. After her latest reply I have zero sympathy.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it sucks.
However, the bigger issue is: you don't have enough in savings to last you 5 weeks?! Let this be an expensive lesson to you. Save your money. Live within your means. You should have enough savings where you could survive for at least 6 months if necessary.

This is OP.

HAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

What a great response. So helpful. I don't live in the DC area (or the US for that matter), but rather in an area where nannies are not particularly well paid but the COL is high. I have been barely scraping by, making just a hair over minimum wage, for the last 18 months. I have also been making payments on my student loans. I have also been trying to do things like eat and buy new clothes when my old ones disintegrate.

You are either one of those mythical $35/hour nannies, or a MB very disconnected from the reality of living on a low income. I'm 21, halfway done a university degree, and completely financially independent from my family. Give me 100 other people in that situation and I can guarantee you none of them have 6 months worth of money stashed away somewhere.

HAHAH

Thank you everyone else who chimed in. I am sending out resumes like mad to all sorts of jobs and hopefully something will stick. I'm happy to work a crappy job for 5 weeks if it means I can pay my bills.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it sucks.
However, the bigger issue is: you don't have enough in savings to last you 5 weeks?! Let this be an expensive lesson to you. Save your money. Live within your means. You should have enough savings where you could survive for at least 6 months if necessary.

You're a clueless moron. Most lower income people are just surviving, and are literally not able to save save save. Especially a young, presumably unattached person who's trying to get through school too. I don't know, nor care whether you're a holier than thou nanny or an MB who hasn't had to go hungry before, but the reality is most people live paycheck to paycheck. That's why most families have both parents working. If most families need two incomes to get by then doesn't stand to reason that the average single income nanny household would have most of her income eaten by housing, transportation and food? Get out of lala land and join us here in the real world.

OP, look for another summer job, and if it means leaving your current job sooner than a month, then so be it. If you aren't able to secure anything, then post an ad on craigslist offering ad hoc and last minute services. Be proactive, starting RIGHT NOW.

Yes, it sucks.
However, the bigger issue is: you don't have enough in savings to last you 5 weeks?! Let this be an expensive lesson to you. Save your money. Live within your means. You should have enough savings where you could survive for at least 6 months if necessary.

this seems odd to me. you got a month's notice to find another job, which I think is generous of the parents. if one parent is unemployed, why would they pay for a nanny? it doesn't matter what the house renovations are, you seem to be an unnecessary cost at the moment

OP, if I were in your shoes, I would be pissed off as well, but there is really nothing right now you can do unfortunately.

They have given you a month's notice which is pretty reasonable I suppose so I guess you have no choice but to make due.

So sorry this happened to you.
I bet you feel majorly screwed by them.

Guess they talked things out and decided on spending more on renovations to their home vs. keeping their word to you.

See if you can get on with an agency that places temp nannies. I was able to cobble together an income that way after I moved across the country and was interviewing for positions.

It sounds like they value you and have been fair with you. They gave you a month notice. And as a prior poster said, with one parent home all day and able to care for the kids, a full-time nanny is a bigger luxury than the remodeling projects, which may have been long-overdue and probably are costing more than originally estimated (most construction does). Collect unemployment and enjoy the five week break before school starts.

I don't see it as moral issue. They have the right to let you ho. Now you have the right to file for unemployment. There is some balance in our imperfect world.

Will you be able to get unemployment op?

With one parent at home all day, you were the bigger luxury than the kitchen remodel. You got a month's notice. Try to line something up or temp with an agency. They aren't required to support you all summer just to be nice.

They have the money they just would rather spend it on the house than childcare-nice. Sorry to hear this, OP, but at least you did get one month notice, hopefully you can find a temp job in time. I used to work for ''friends'' as a nanny and come payday Friday they would say they didn't have all my money then I'd come back Monday only to hear about the awesome iPad or new tv they got, some people are just such jerks!

I've been with my nanny family for 1.5 years. When I interviewed with them I made it clear that I most likely would be returning to university Sept 2014 (I'm in my early 20's) and they were fine with this. 4 or so months ago I confirmed that this was happening. About 6 weeks ago, DB's company closed and he lost his job with zero notice. Any concerns I had about keeping my job were abated when DB reassured me their financial situation is fine (MB is a high earning professional) and when he started to undertake some big (and relatively expensive) home improvement projects during his unemployment.

2 days ago DB gave me a months notice. They can't afford to employ me until the end of August any longer. I am totally shocked and scrambling to figure out how I'm going to fill a 5 week gap of unemployment.

I'm so mad at myself for naively assuming that at this point, after 18 months of being a great nanny, that my job was actually secure for the next 2 months. I'm mad that I came in this morning and DB was running off to meet with a contractor to finish their kitchen Reno, and asked me to pass a message on to the construction guys who are coming to pour concrete for their new patio and hot tub today. I realize that this is their prerogative and I have no right to question how they spend their money, but I find it really hard to believe that there was no way they could keep me employed for an extra 5 weeks.

I'm pretty sure the next time DB makes a comment about how expensive all his projects are becoming (and there have been plenty of those comments so far) I am going to have a rather snarky response. And I'm finding it REALLY hard to care about how unprofessional that is at this point.