Anonymous wrote:She doesn't know what a professional career nanny is. She's not even paying her taxes! Troll, anyone?

I do know what a professional career nanny is, thank you very much. I have always paid my taxes in past positions. My current employers asked me whether or not I wanted to claim my earnings in this position. I am engaged so don't have to worry about building my credit or having things in my name. Can you really blame me for wanting to bring home an extra $150 per week?

The market rate is what it is, just as the market rate is what it is for sales clerks, fast food staff, etc. The reality is, if the market rate was higher, it's not that families currently employing nannies at $15 or less per hour would pay more - its that fewer families would employ nannies in favor of day care or other child care options ...

She doesn't know what a professional career nanny is. She's not even paying her taxes! Troll, anyone?

What area are you in, pp?

I make $13/hr and with my hours that ends up giving me around $550 (take home, I don't pay taxes) per week. I live in a much, much cheaper area than DC. To give you an idea of cost in my area, I am looking at apartments right now and will probably be getting something for around $800/month (and I will be splitting the rent with my fiance).

I am an experienced, professional career nanny and what I am making now is actually more than what I was making in my last nanny position. I am very happy with what I am making and don't secretly despise my employers because they have more money than I do.

I know that it is hard for some people to believe but there are nannies out there who have wonderful working relationships with their bosses and who don't hate or resent them. There are also nannies out there who are happy with what they are making and who aren't living paycheck to paycheck or struggling to pay their bills. And believe it or not there are actually nannies out there who enjoy the work that they do.

I make $13/hr right now and I wouldn't switch positions even if I were to be offered $18 or $19 doing something else. I come into work every morning and am happy to be here. The are tons of perks and I really, truly do love children. I don't understand why it is so hard for someone to believe that someone would actually want to be a nanny.

I made $15 an hour in a nanny share.

I had a roommate to split rent and bills with and my student loans were in deferment then income based repayment. I had no car, so no car bill or car loans just monthly transportation costs.

With budgeting you can make do, especially if you have a roommate like I did. But, you don't want to have a roommate forever and eventually most people (like myself) want to be able to have a better home and a family.

So much rudeness and anger here.

I have nannied a lot - I've also worked in three other fields (college-educated, thanks) - and will begin graduate school next year, but I absolutely LOVE my job. It may be temporary but I left a career in teaching to return to nannying, because, like PP, I missed having the opportunity to build real bonds with chidlren. I don't mind chasing around toddlers - I love not having to sit behind a desk all day! I don't mind folding laundry and washing dishes - I am happy organizing and tidying things. I don't know how much my employers earn but I don't care and I don't envy them - they work all day and then come home to more work with the kids - because they compensate me fairly and treat me with respect. They would never in a million years tell me I should do something else or get another degree if I want XYZ - they want me and my experience, education, and common-sense to stick around and continue to help their family! If you MBs and nannies wouldn't say these things to your employees/employers, why say it here? There's a perfectly polite way to express almost any opinion and frankly I think the bulk of MBs on this site are easily as offensive and entitled as some of the nannies.

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For some of us it is something to do forever. I am a Career Nanny and I am so happy in my position that I could never imagine going back to doing something else every again. Some of you temporary nannies forget that there are people who actually want to be doing this.

Why do so many of you sound so bitter and angry? Its a great job but its not a career if you do the same thing over and over.

Nannies who don't plan to be doing the same thing for 20 years are not people who don't enjoy doing it now. In fact, its the career nannies not the temporary nannies who are burnt out. The ones with energy and ambition deserve the high salaries not the whiners.

+11111111 --- I noticed this as well, at least with the nannies on here anyway.

I personally believe it's because they hate the fact that they're working for $10-$20/hr while employers who employ them are usually, for the most part, working for a decent chunk of change. They envy it. They hate having to clean poopy diapers and chase around an active toddler while doing laundry, light housekeeping, errands, etc, to make ends meat. All the while, they're watching their employers work just as many hours and the lifestyle it gets them. They have money for vacations, name brands, nice items, new vehicles, and don't live paycheck to paycheck. They almost feel that because their employers make money and have money to 'spare', that they should be giving them alot more per hour for nannying their children. They don't realize that a nanny market rate is just that, a market rate. They have egos and entitlement issues and will use the ''I love kids that's why I do it" as an excuse to why they don't get into a career that doesn't involve throw up and poopy diapers.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a shame that that is the only option though for a college educated woman who truly enjoys working with children, specifically in the very special one-on-one capacity that you get to do as a nanny. Sure I can go make more money as a receptionist or as a teacher, but I love building such close relationships with my charges, the freedom I have in planning our days and tailoring everything to their interests and needs.

That's such a typical, ridiculous excuse. LOL. Millions of people love kids. Kids are lovable. But don't tell me that you passed on the opportunity for a real career bringing in a good amount of dough because you ''love building bonds with children'' -- Don't believe it, but if it was true then you're a fool who deserves the low paying jobs you get.

Why don't you believe it? She says that she is college educated, so she probably could have done something else.

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame that that is the only option though for a college educated woman who truly enjoys working with children, specifically in the very special one-on-one capacity that you get to do as a nanny. Sure I can go make more money as a receptionist or as a teacher, but I love building such close relationships with my charges, the freedom I have in planning our days and tailoring everything to their interests and needs.

That's such a typical, ridiculous excuse. LOL. Millions of people love kids. Kids are lovable. But don't tell me that you passed on the opportunity for a real career bringing in a good amount of dough because you ''love building bonds with children'' -- Don't believe it, but if it was true then you're a fool who deserves the low paying jobs you get.

Anonymous wrote:

For some of us it is something to do forever. I am a Career Nanny and I am so happy in my position that I could never imagine going back to doing something else every again. Some of you temporary nannies forget that there are people who actually want to be doing this.

Why do so many of you sound so bitter and angry? Its a great job but its not a career if you do the same thing over and over.

Nannies who don't plan to be doing the same thing for 20 years are not people who don't enjoy doing it now. In fact, its the career nannies not the temporary nannies who are burnt out. The ones with energy and ambition deserve the high salaries not the whiners.

The lazy, whiny, and entitled nannies that everyone is always complaining about are not Career Nannies, they are temporary nannies who don't want to be nannying and who are doing it because it's the easiest way for them to make money or because they don't qualify for anything better. The only reason why I harbor any anger on the subject is because it is these types of nannies who give all nannies a bad name.

Anonymous wrote:Now if we could only earn a living wage. I know a few of us are. Buy most aren't. They live like high school kids who have a laundry list of rules to obey, especially if they live in.

If you want to make a livable wage then get a degree and become something that brings in the dough. Nanny market is nanny market. Millions of min wage workers bust their butts and bring in pennys and complain but never try to become something better.

Anonymous wrote:What you don't in your first year of working, you certainly make up for 10 and 20 years later. Here we are talking about a nanny who has done 20 years into her career, and is still expected to earn the same "flat" rate, as she did in the beginning.

That's not anyones problem. If nannies want to complain then how about they go and get the qualifications to work at a job that brings in a good amount of doe. Lawyers work really hard to get where they are.

For some of us it is something to do forever. I am a Career Nanny and I am so happy in my position that I could never imagine going back to doing something else every again. Some of you temporary nannies forget that there are people who actually want to be doing this.

Why do so many of you sound so bitter and angry? Its a great job but its not a career if you do the same thing over and over.

Nannies who don't plan to be doing the same thing for 20 years are not people who don't enjoy doing it now. In fact, its the career nannies not the temporary nannies who are burnt out. The ones with energy and ambition deserve the high salaries not the whiners.

Now if we could only earn a living wage. I know a few of us are. Buy most aren't. They live like high school kids who have a laundry list of rules to obey, especially if they live in.