The best way to deal someone telling you your job is beneath you is to smile an tell them your quite happy with your life and give a few real examples. All the other judgements and questions sometimes come with the territory, moms seem to question why more than anyone. I am 40, have a ECE degree (earned 20 years ago), years of teaching and nanny experience, and I love being a nanny. Teaching was great too, but was exhausting as I got older. We moms look confused as to why I nanny, I tell them it's like being paid to be a stay at home mom. Then they sort of get it, but I think many people just don't have realistic information about career as a nanny (pay, responsibilities, and perks and benefits). If you love your job, smile and say so!

I've been a nanny for four years and started through a friend. Yes i get dissed alot. Had a few guys get uninterested in me because of this profession. And its sad. I do have a degree and i find myself explaining why do this job. It's not for me, going back to school this year. I have nothing but RESPECT for the women that do this as a career that doesn't seem upwardly mobile. Its opened up my eyes to how much hard work it really is and I wish many parents would recognize how important this job is and treat nannies with respect!

I'm the pp who was dissed at the zoo and while it stung in the moment, the truth is I am paid to blow bubbles and play in the dirt. I keep 1 baby and net 850$ a week. It may not be 6 figures but my son and I live exceptionally well and that's all that matters to me.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

You are in denial. How many nannies make $65k? That's over $25 an hour

I think you are the one in denial. Do all nannies make 65k? Absolutely not. Some make way less, some make more. It all depends on where you are, what the nanny market is, and what your experience is. You clearly are not a nanny. I assume you employ one and consider her "the help"...in which case, I feel sorry for her having to put up with such an ignorant employer. You can think what you want about nannies. It doesn't matter. People
are going to continue to employ them. And if I can make 65k/year for being "the help", then that is fine with me.

No one said "all" nannies earn anything specific. Are you being stupid on purpose?

Anonymous wrote:I don't know any fast food workers who make $40,000 a year, never mind 65K. As often as you keep saying there aren't any special skills a nanny needs, the fact is there are things that are required of nannies beyond just showing up and being a cog in the machine (like an underpaid fast food/retail/office worker). There might not be official testing or licensure processes, but that doesn't make it a low skill job either.

Do you realize that while defending nannying, you are putting down those who work in retail or fast food?

FYI, you can work your way up to a managerial position in a fast food restaurant. When you are working in someone's home rather than a company, there is no where to work your way up to. You can luck out and find a well paying job, but that is not the norm. We have seen numerous threads about nannies who endure financial and emotional abuse from their MB/DB's and obviously there is no HR to answer to, so you put up with it until you can find another job and hope you don't get screwed over again.

Like it or not, nannying does fall into the same category as other low paying jobs that don't require an education. That is the reality and that is why people may "diss" nannying.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

You are in denial. How many nannies make $65k? That's over $25 an hour

I think you are the one in denial. Do all nannies make 65k? Absolutely not. Some make way less, some make more. It all depends on where you are, what the nanny market is, and what your experience is. You clearly are not a nanny. I assume you employ one and consider her "the help"...in which case, I feel sorry for her having to put up with such an ignorant employer. You can think what you want about nannies. It doesn't matter. People are going to continue to employ them. And if I can make 65k/year for being "the help", then that is fine with me.

You assume wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

You are in denial. How many nannies make $65k? That's over $25 an hour

I think you are the one in denial. Do all nannies make 65k? Absolutely not. Some make way less, some make more. It all depends on where you are, what the nanny market is, and what your experience is. You clearly are not a nanny. I assume you employ one and consider her "the help"...in which case, I feel sorry for her having to put up with such an ignorant employer. You can think what you want about nannies. It doesn't matter. People are going to continue to employ them. And if I can make 65k/year for being "the help", then that is fine with me.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

You are in denial. How many nannies make $65k? That's over $25 an hour

How can I be in denial if that is what I make? I'd be happy to send some check stubs your way.

I don't know any fast food workers who make $40,000 a year, never mind 65K. As often as you keep saying there aren't any special skills a nanny needs, the fact is there are things that are required of nannies beyond just showing up and being a cog in the machine (like an underpaid fast food/retail/office worker). There might not be official testing or licensure processes, but that doesn't make it a low skill job either.

Or at least $20/hr for a 60 hour work week.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

You are in denial. How many nannies make $65k? That's over $25 an hour

Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy being a nanny, that's awesome. But the reality is that nannying is a low level type of job like working in fast food. You can't climb up the corporate ladder, you don't need an education. Own it. Stop trying to fight for people to see it as a professional career when it's not. If want that type of recognition then finish school.

Will you quit being ignorant in assuming that nannies don't have degrees? I don't know any fast food employees who make 65k per year plus FULL benefits, paid vacations to awesome places, among many other perks.

jerrica5615 wrote:Sadly, in this country children are not valued, and individual care of children is especially not valued.Therefore, if they think you are intelligent/attractive/fill in the blank with your apparent virtue, you should consider it beneath you to care for children. It's ridiculous.

Yeah, sad. It'll be the downfall of our culture.

Anonymous wrote:Here's my advice: why do you give a flying f*** about what people think about your job as long as you're happy?

You will always run into people who are judgmental and condescending. If they look down on you for caring for children, there is something wrong with them.

Lol. They were probably not well cared for themselves.

Sadly, in this country children are not valued, and individual care of children is especially not valued.Therefore, if they think you are intelligent/attractive/fill in the blank with your apparent virtue, you should consider it beneath you to care for children. It's ridiculous.