Aug 21, 2007 16:21
So, as most of you know I have decided that instead of looking for a real job during my year off from school, that I would rather just be a nanny (tax free) and be able to set my own hours pretty much. For the summer I have been babysitting Mollie on Mon and Fri and Izzie on the days in between and some other random kids on other random hours and days....but since school is starting and Izzie is moving, I needed to totally reconfigure my schedule. I had it set up so I'd be babysitting for Levi on Mon and Wed mornings, Jilly and Michael on Mon and Wed afternoons, Katie's kids on Tues morning and Susie's boys on Tues afternoons, and then Katie's kids on Thursdays....that leaves me with Fri, Sat and Sun off and I'd be making about $450 a week, tax free. Awesome. WELL...... last night Levi's dad emailed me and asked if I could stay later than what we had talked about b/c his wife was going to be working later...I emailed back and said I couldn't because I needed to be at Jilly and Michaels by 3:30 so it was pretty impossible. I asked him to email me back and let me know what was going on or if we could try and work something out. I never got a response. Later on that evening one of my nanny sites ( a site that I post a profile on and families email me to be their nanny) emailed me to let me know I had a message. I realized it was from Levi's dad and wondered if he was just on there and it was easier for him to send me an email through there then to log into his email b/c we had already been emailing through his normal account earlier that day...to my fuckin surprise, he made a BIG mistake and emailed me as if I was a random nanny that he had never messaged before. BASICALLY he was looking for another nanny (without telling me) and made the mistake of sending the email to the nanny he already freaking hired, ME! SO at first I wrote back and said "I think you probably meant to send this to someone else b/c you said you are 'looking to hire a nanny from 7am-5pm' when you already hired me to be your nanny from 7am-3pm. Please let me know what is going on. If you are looking for someone else b/c I cannot stay later, I understand, but I would really like to know now so I can begin looking for other work." But then I kinda got mad b/c I think that's so rude to start looking for another nanny without telling your old one she is unemployed...that job alone was $150 a week (that's $11 tax free dollars an hour). So I emailed him back again and said "I decided to take another job. Good luck in your search." However, I made it sound a lot nicer but that was basically the jist of it. So, now I am looking for other jobs to take up that time. The problem is, I am only available for mon and wed mornings so it's hard to find a family to meet exactly those needs. I think I'll be okay though but I'm just a little nervous b/c I have budgeted out my year based on making $450 a week so if I make less than that I might freak out a bit. EEK. I don't know.... I know I'll be fine.... I had people begging me to sit for their kids just a few weeks ago, I literally had to turn people down b/c I didn't have the time...so hopefully if I call those people they will still need me. Updates later I'm sure but I just had to tell b/c I thought that Levi's dad was a complete retard for sending me that. Oh well.
What else... umm I had last week off from work so I was pretty much a total waste of life and I never woke up before noon really. Today I had to be at Izzie's at 8:30am and I'm pretty much dying trying to stay awake. I could not fall asleep before 3am and on top of that I watched a ton of scary movies yesterday so I was kinda having issues with that too. It's kinda sad when I'm like begging Izzie to take a nap just so I can catch a few zz's myself. Haha. Oh well. WHatcha gonna do ;)
Not much else is going on... I wrote yesterday about my plans for the next few weeks and I'm super excited about all of that but I am not excited about all the money I might be spending. Bahh..I'll try to be frugal. Crossing my fingers. Okay, I'm gonna go. later lovers.