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For those of you that have a college degree why do you chose to do daycare? I am currently taking classes to become a RN. No judgments at all just really curious. Is it staying home with your kids? Money? If you care to share I would love to know as I will be in the same boat of quitting daycare to go be an RN or not whatever the case may be
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I was a teacher prior to daycare, and I just got sick of our school system. I am young with no children, but I still wanted a job teaching. So, I opened up a daycare for preschoolers and I teach 3-5 year olds
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I have a masters degree and I'm doing it to stay home with my kids and honestly I'm making more now than I was working full time before my girls were born.
Before we had kids we decided that it was a priority for US that I stay home with them at least until they were off to school. I love kids and worked as a preschool teacher part-time once my girls turned 2 and really loved it. So deciding to branch off and do it at home myself seemed like an obvious career move
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I definitely don't regret it and love my time at home and love all my dcks.Comment
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I went to school to work with children and worked with children in one capacity or another for most of the last ten years. I had my daughter 2 years ago and stayed at home with her until this past September and I decided to open my preschool. My background prepared me extremely well for what I'm doing and has allowed me to really market my program as a preschool.Comment
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I have a BS in education. Currently staying home to raise my children and working on my master's degree online while doing daycare to help with the bills.Comment
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I started my child care when my children were young, and I did not have more than a High School Education at the time. I have been in business for 14 years. I started going to college a few years ago because I wanted to be the best provider I could be. I wanted to understand what DAP is and I wanted to be able to offer a preschool program, not just child care.
I have continued my education because of those things, but alos because it has opened many doors for me. I am involved in many professional programs and have a few independent consulting and side jobs that I could not have without my education.
I am going into my Masters Degree program in January, with the goal of eventually teaching at the college level. I know I won't physically be able to work with children forever, and I want a retirement package
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I have a BA in Early Childhood Development and Education. My plan was to be an elementary school teacher (early elem.) but at my university (OSU if you're curious) you can't get a teaching license without doing their Master's program. Getting through college was hard enough once I had DD, but I still planned to go the Master's route. Last fall, though, even though the M.ED program is only 5 quarters so I *could* have done it in a little more than a year, we (DH and I) decided that our family and our finances could not stand another 2 years (which is what it would have been once the M.ED program started in the summer) of me not working and of me accumulating MORE debt (student loans).
We were in the process of buying a house anyway, so we deemed it a much better decision to have me open a home daycare. I love it...and I don't know if I ever want to do anything else. I've thought about trying to become a Montessori teacher after all my kids are in school full-time, but that's a long way away.Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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I was a nanny while I was in college. I went to Grand View
I did some nursing but child care was a better paying job and more to my liking. When I was thirty three I started my home child care. My son was born seven years later. I'm a homebody and wanted to be a work at home mom.
Child care pays WAY better than nursing .. at least here in Des Moines. The nursing education is really worth it if you are considering continuing child care. You can't go wrong with a good solid nursing education. If you can complete the schooling and the exams the degree will put you give you a wonderful niche and be VERY attractive to parents of young infants.Comment
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Thank you ladies for your responses. I enjoy learning more about the woman who help me with my backbone and everything else needed for this profession
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I was a nurse for 18 yrs. before quitting my job to stay at home with my children. One thing led to another, a neighbor needing daycare, and it rolled from there. I will be going back in the work field soon, when my children are all in school.Comment
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Nannyde I live about 45 mins from Des Moines, Thank you for your insight!! Definitely helpful to me.I was a nanny while I was in college. I went to Grand View
I did some nursing but child care was a better paying job and more to my liking. When I was thirty three I started my home child care. My son was born seven years later. I'm a homebody and wanted to be a work at home mom.
Child care pays WAY better than nursing .. at least here in Des Moines. The nursing education is really worth it if you are considering continuing child care. You can't go wrong with a good solid nursing education. If you can complete the schooling and the exams the degree will put you give you a wonderful niche and be VERY attractive to parents of young infants.
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i have no formal education at the moment, but i am slowly starting to work towards getting a degree in ECE. not because i have to, but because i want to. i still plan on working from home, because its just what i love, even though my kids are 14 and 8. i still want to be here when the get home from school and on holidays. someday, when they are completely grown and out of the house, maybe then i will get something ouside of the home. then again, maybe not
by then, i may have grandkids to care for. we'll see!!!
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Daycare can be good but is not my dream job. I worked as a nurse for 3 years and I missed my daughter so much and I wanted to raise her.
We wanted another child and I could not afford to pay daycare for a second child so I am watching 3 -4 children to make ends meet until I get really good at it (and love it) or until my husband gets a promotion so I can just be a SAHM.
When my kids grow up I want to go back into the work force but I will not be a nurse.Comment
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