My Career Goal

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Option 1: In my state under State Board of Education I am aid/sub certified. Under Department of Children and Family Services I am director/teacher qualified. My career goal is to get into management and become a director. I am looking for a job at a daycare were I can grow into that position. Can anyone please help. I live in Illinois near Chicago. I have experience as working as an aid in a ISBE public high school and working as a teacher in a DCFS private preschool. Any suggestions? Thanks. If this is posted in the wrong forum sorry. I was not sure what forum it belongs.

Option II: I can not do a home daycare I I do not own my home. I looked into franchising a daycare/preschool. Most franchisee want you to own the building/property and business Also most will not let you be owner and director. I heard there are companies that will help you start a daycare. I would like to rent a place for a daycare. I would like it located close to a public park, so I do not have to put up my own playground. Also, I like to be my own director. If this is in the wrong forum sorry, and let me know. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. happyface

[TGPII]

I am looking for a job. If you could close this threat that would be greatly appreciated.

[Blackcat31]

Have you given up on the idea of having your own home daycare then?

As far as finding a job in the early childhood field goes, I wish I could help but I live a long ways from where you are so I would have no idea how to even begin searching for a position in your community.

One suggestion I do have though is if you are really interested in starting a childcare, why not start small and build your own franchise? Maybe open a center by renting a office space perhaps in a big company where the employees could have in-house child care. We have a big corporation here in my community and someone rented basement office space and started a child care for the employees of the business only and is having great success.

You could seek office space in a company building or nearby.

Or you could rent a home (different from the one you live in) and start a family daycare and simply expand as you grow your business toward your ultimate goal of a franchise.

[TGPII]

I wish I could get an idea how much a non franchise daycare would cost. Franchise want to much capital to start. I just wonder about competition I find jobs and interview for jobs all the time. The last offer I got was minimum wage hour from my house. I did the math with gas I would lose money. Side note you do know I am male? ::::::::::

[Blackcat31]

Yep, I caught the fact you were male in another post.

The cost of opening your own child care center would vary from state to state and what type of care you open. If you open a family child care facility, you are limited in regards to only being able ot have a specific amount of kids evenif you hire employees.

If you decide to open a child care center in a building that is not a home, you can have more children and hire employees.

I don't think there really is anyway any one can give you an estimate for hw much it would cost because of the many different variables involved. Such as equipment and supplies. Depends on how much of anything you have, want and need to operate.

Rent and utilities will also vary as to the area you are in. Depending on what days and hours you will be open and the ages you will provide care for.

I have also noticed in a few of your posts you mention not necessarily liking the pay some of the interviewers/jobs are offering you and I completely understand but I hate to tell you that minimum wage for early childhood workers is pretty standard and if you are holding out for more, you probably aren't going ot find it anywhere.

I know director's as well as owners of franchises can and do make more than mimum wage but none of them just got that kind of job by walking in and applying. Most of them started at ground level for minimum wage, long working hours and poor working conditions before they earned a raise and better pay.

Sugar Magnolia (https://www.daycare.com/forum/member.php?u=106928) opened up her own child care center and is currently working as director, owner and provider in her facility. She faced a few obstacles in opening her own place but did it. Perhaps you could PM her and ask her some questions about how to get started. She is a wonderful gal and seems willing to share with others her path to center ownership so she may be a great resource for you.

I own my own childcare building as well but it is a single family home and I am licensed as a family child care provider NOT a center and can only take on 14 children maximum. After all my expenses and costs, I don't make a good deal of money but I have a love for what I do and money, at least for me, is onlypart of why I chose to do child care.

I am afraid that if you are looking to make top dollar from a position, early childhood may not be your place to do so. I also think you should consider taking one of the positions that have already been offered to you (even with the lower pay) so that you can learn. Learning the day to day operations of a child care business while working there is the best lesson you could get so that you will know what things you should and shouldn't do in your quest to open your own center.

Starting at ground level is something everyone should do to truly appreciate the hard work and commitment working in early childhood requires.

I do think you should contact Sugar Magnolia as she is your best bet as far as members from this forum goes. The rest of the members on this board are a combination of stay at home moms doing child care while raising their own children, providing child care in their homes or are center employees, but either way I will bet there aren't many of us on here who can add much more to your search for a position since most of us work from home as family daycare providers and not directors or owners.

[TGPII]

I am not looking for top dollar at all. Just if I am not going to make anything I need it to be close enough were I don't lose money on gas etc. Also I need insurance. I have worked in the field. Only way to make money is to be a director/manager.

I don't mind working for nothing. I just need it closer to my home. I think the teacher/director qualified should make more then a T/A. happyfacehappyfacehappyfacehappyface I had an interview last week for a few jobs that were more then minimum wage.

Yep, I caught the fact you were male in another post.

The cost of opening your own child care center would vary from state to state and what type of care you open. If you open a family child care facility, you are limited in regards to only being able ot have a specific amount of kids evenif you hire employees.

If you decide to open a child care center in a building that is not a home, you can have more children and hire employees.

I don't think there really is anyway any one can give you an estimate for hw much it would cost because of the many different variables involved. Such as equipment and supplies. Depends on how much of anything you have, want and need to operate.

Rent and utilities will also vary as to the area you are in. Depending on what days and hours you will be open and the ages you will provide care for.

I have also noticed in a few of your posts you mention not necessarily liking the pay some of the interviewers/jobs are offering you and I completely understand but I hate to tell you that minimum wage for early childhood workers is pretty standard and if you are holding out for more, you probably aren't going ot find it anywhere.

I know director's as well as owners of franchises can and do make more than mimum wage but none of them just got that kind of job by walking in and applying. Most of them started at ground level for minimum wage, long working hours and poor working conditions before they earned a raise and better pay.

Sugar Magnolia (https://www.daycare.com/forum/member.php?u=106928) opened up her own child care center and is currently working as director, owner and provider in her facility. She faced a few obstacles in opening her own place but did it. Perhaps you could PM her and ask her some questions about how to get started. She is a wonderful gal and seems willing to share with others her path to center ownership so she may be a great resource for you.

I own my own childcare building as well but it is a single family home and I am licensed as a family child care provider NOT a center and can only take on 14 children maximum. After all my expenses and costs, I don't make a good deal of money but I have a love for what I do and money, at least for me, is onlypart of why I chose to do child care.

I am afraid that if you are looking to make top dollar from a position, early childhood may not be your place to do so. I also think you should consider taking one of the positions that have already been offered to you (even with the lower pay) so that you can learn. Learning the day to day operations of a child care business while working there is the best lesson you could get so that you will know what things you should and shouldn't do in your quest to open your own center.

Starting at ground level is something everyone should do to truly appreciate the hard work and commitment working in early childhood requires.

I do think you should contact Sugar Magnolia as she is your best bet as far as members from this forum goes. The rest of the members on this board are a combination of stay at home moms doing child care while raising their own children, providing child care in their homes or are center employees, but either way I will bet there aren't many of us on here who can add much more to your search for a position since most of us work from home as family daycare providers and not directors or owners.