Anonymous
06/08/2013 21:21
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
I am the $450 a week poster my nanny does not drive her husband drops and picks her up. She speaks good English she is 60 yo. She also does light housekeeping, folding and putting away baby laundry, unloading the dishwasher, and cleaning the playroom This is my second Russian speaking nanny I don't know anyone who pays more in the Russian community.
Anonymous
06/08/2013 17:26
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:I have a family member who mastered seven languages in his adulthood. To each his own. Each person has his own talents. Remember?
Congrats?
That doesn't make someone who finds it difficult or even impossible "lazy," it makes them typical.
Anonymous
06/08/2013 17:25
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:14:19, no one is interested in doing your budget for you. Grown ups do their own budgets.
We all had to learn to budget when we made $40k/ year. We believe you can do it, too! Good luck!
No one asked anyone to do their budget for them. You are not reading clearly. I did ask what might a 15/hr monthly budget look like, as I marvel at the ability to support one's self on that in the DC area. For instance, is it enough not to have to share your bedroom?
Funny how one poster said she shares her bedroom with her husband to save money. I hope that's not the only reason she married him!
PP, I don't know who you are as I haven't gone back to reread this thread, but I just spent two years living in Boston on $19,000 a year (it was an AmeriCorps service position) and I did not share a bedroom.
It can be done.
Anonymous
06/08/2013 12:36
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:I am the poster $450 a week on the books, 2week paid vacation, paid holidays and paid days when we are away. We are in N Bethesda.
Does your nanny speak English and does she drive?
Anonymous
06/08/2013 11:16
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
I have a family member who mastered seven languages in his adulthood. To each his own. Each person has his own talents. Remember?
Anonymous
06/08/2013 10:35
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:Is this nanny illegal? How could she pass a citizenship test not speaking any english? Either way she sounds PATHETIC living here for 10 years not speaking english. I speak 5 languages. Two I learned using Rosetta Stone. This lady is LAZY.
Oh shut up. Neurolinguistics tells us that most people find it near impossible to learn a new language, particularly one this different from her native tongue, as an adult. Congrats to you for being the exception but there's no need to be an ass about it.
Anonymous
06/08/2013 04:45
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Is this nanny illegal? How could she pass a citizenship test not speaking any english? Either way she sounds PATHETIC living here for 10 years not speaking english. I speak 5 languages. Two I learned using Rosetta Stone. This lady is LAZY.
Anonymous
06/07/2013 23:55
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
I am the poster $450 a week on the books, 2week paid vacation, paid holidays and paid days when we are away. We are in N Bethesda.
Anonymous
06/07/2013 23:25
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:The going rate for a nanny in the affluent Russian community is 450/week for 45 hrs a week
On the books?
Anonymous
06/07/2013 22:45
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
The going rate for a nanny in the affluent Russian community is 450/week for 45 hrs a week
Anonymous
06/02/2013 19:00
Subject: Re:Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:14:19, no one is interested in doing your budget for you. Grown ups do their own budgets.
We all had to learn to budget when we made $40k/ year. We believe you can do it, too! Good luck!
No one asked anyone to do their budget for them. You are not reading clearly. I did ask what might a 15/hr monthly budget look like, as I marvel at the ability to support one's self on that in the DC area. For instance, is it enough not to have to share your bedroom?
Funny how one poster said she shares her bedroom with her husband to save money. I hope that's not the only reason she married him!
Actually, fool, I was mocking you. No one cares that you are demanding what a budget would look like because all of us real adults know that our budgets are our own responsibility. Our employers are not our parents...yet, your question absolutely demands that employers act like parents and budget for their nannies.
Stop acting like a ten year old. If you can't possibly imagine living on $15/hr, then don't. Look for another job. One whose market rates command more than $15/hr.
I earn far more than 15 and I love my profession, thanks. I've been generously rewarded in more ways than I could ever count.
Anonymous
06/02/2013 17:57
Subject: Re:Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:14:19, no one is interested in doing your budget for you. Grown ups do their own budgets.
We all had to learn to budget when we made $40k/ year. We believe you can do it, too! Good luck!
No one asked anyone to do their budget for them. You are not reading clearly. I did ask what might a 15/hr monthly budget look like, as I marvel at the ability to support one's self on that in the DC area. For instance, is it enough not to have to share your bedroom?
Funny how one poster said she shares her bedroom with her husband to save money. I hope that's not the only reason she married him!
Actually, fool, I was mocking you. No one cares that you are demanding what a budget would look like because all of us real adults know that our budgets are our own responsibility. Our employers are not our parents...yet, your question absolutely demands that employers act like parents and budget for their nannies.
Stop acting like a ten year old. If you can't possibly imagine living on $15/hr, then don't. Look for another job. One whose market rates command more than $15/hr.
Anonymous
06/02/2013 16:49
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Well, don't feel so bad. You probably won't really feel the pinch until you're up to an HHI of 250k-that's when most folks around here really start whining. These folks living on 40k a year have it easy.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but that was in 1952.Anonymous wrote:fAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Also, the "it has been pointed out" has been pointed out by you. Even in academic circle, you can cite yourself for a limited number of times before you begin to look silly.
Your problem is that you can't even imagine living on $15/hr, much less offer a plausible snapshot of a monthly budget.
YOUR problem is that you make assumptions about me based on nothing but your own ignorance. But I'll break it down for you.
My first job out of grad school, I made $32K. I was 28 at the time.
A year later, got a raise to $36K.
Another year later, another raise to $40K.
Then two years on a part-time job of $18/month and evening hostessing.
Then two years in an international development firm at $42K for two years.
So I know all there is to know about making do on $40K a year. I don't need to imagine it. And I was single.
No, 2001 as a starting point.
1951.
Anonymous
06/02/2013 13:11
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but that was in 1952.Anonymous wrote:fAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Also, the "it has been pointed out" has been pointed out by you. Even in academic circle, you can cite yourself for a limited number of times before you begin to look silly.
Your problem is that you can't even imagine living on $15/hr, much less offer a plausible snapshot of a monthly budget.
YOUR problem is that you make assumptions about me based on nothing but your own ignorance. But I'll break it down for you.
My first job out of grad school, I made $32K. I was 28 at the time.
A year later, got a raise to $36K.
Another year later, another raise to $40K.
Then two years on a part-time job of $18/month and evening hostessing.
Then two years in an international development firm at $42K for two years.
So I know all there is to know about making do on $40K a year. I don't need to imagine it. And I was single.
No, 2001 as a starting point.
Anonymous
06/02/2013 12:45
Subject: Wages for non English speaking nannies
[quote=Anonymous
Don't know which post you're referring to, but I did say I hoped that wasn't the only reason that poster married him. It seems like you just want to make a fuss about nothing. Find yourself something better.
Don't know which post you're referring to, but I did say I hoped that wasn't the only reason that poster married him. It seems like you just want to make a fuss about nothing. Find yourself something better.
This is what you said:
"Funny how one poster said she shares her bedroom with her husband to save money. I hope that's not the only reason she married him! "
That poster said nothing of the sort, you made it up. This is what she said:
"Plenty of 30- and 40-year olds share bedrooms with their husbands and boyfriends, thus saving money on housing and utilities." She didn't say they are doing it to save money. She pointed out a very obvious fact that two married people have only one housing bill.