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I used to provide in-home care but in the last few years (since all my own kids are in school full-time) I have been working as a part-time nanny. It works well for me as I only choose positions that work with my kids' schedule & allow me to have summers off. I am currently between jobs. I had TWO offers for part-time jobhappyfacehappyfaces & I picked one (apparently the wrong one!) of the jobs but held off on saying NO to the other family (thank goodness). Family that hired me wanted me to start in a few weeks. We had agreed on a set hourly rate. Earlier this week I received an e-mail from the DCM & I have to admit I was rather surprised LOL. Here it is (I have protected their names!)
"Hi! Tom and I had talked about everything and also conversed with our family and friends that do babysitting both in and out of the house. We were wondering since we looked into some other options would you consider doing three days a week 6 hours a day same hours that we talked about, 9-3:00, for a weekly rate of $140. We were going to push back the start date because somethings weren't set up for work for me like I wanted them to be but we were able to get that managed. So March 10 for shadowing would be wonderful and then starting on March 11 would be great. Let me know if that rate works for you and we can move on from there. Thanks so much!!!"
And just in case you were wondering we had agreed on a rate of $13/hr (for one kid in my area this isn't too bad). I was just shaking my head half laughing when I read her e-mail & half wondering how I pick out the nut jobs? How did she go from happily being willing to pay $13/hr to only $7 something????
Of course I promptly e-mailed her back & let her know that unfortunately I would not be able to work for $7 something an hour & I briefly explained why. Still haven't heard back from her but probably for the best LOL. The good news is I start with another family next week who so far has not taken back the rate they promised me! Just needed to vent & get ity out there. I am still shocked.:confused:
"Hi! Tom and I had talked about everything and also conversed with our family and friends that do babysitting both in and out of the house. We were wondering since we looked into some other options would you consider doing three days a week 6 hours a day same hours that we talked about, 9-3:00, for a weekly rate of $140. We were going to push back the start date because somethings weren't set up for work for me like I wanted them to be but we were able to get that managed. So March 10 for shadowing would be wonderful and then starting on March 11 would be great. Let me know if that rate works for you and we can move on from there. Thanks so much!!!"
And just in case you were wondering we had agreed on a rate of $13/hr (for one kid in my area this isn't too bad). I was just shaking my head half laughing when I read her e-mail & half wondering how I pick out the nut jobs? How did she go from happily being willing to pay $13/hr to only $7 something????
Of course I promptly e-mailed her back & let her know that unfortunately I would not be able to work for $7 something an hour & I briefly explained why. Still haven't heard back from her but probably for the best LOL. The good news is I start with another family next week who so far has not taken back the rate they promised me! Just needed to vent & get ity out there. I am still shocked.:confused:
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