Where to start
Things are good- but changing.
Things are changing.
I'm still a nanny- and with a little background it will be clear how crazy that is. The family I work for bought a house and moved in the last couple of weeks. I found another job for a few reasons. One, they moved 60 miles out, and although they still wanted me to work for them I thought that commute was INSANE. So monday of this week I started another job. It was miserable. MISERABLE. I don't even know where to start on how to describe why and how it was so bad.
The job was as a legislative analyst. That should be perfect for me. The job would be, the place was nuts. The job had a 6 month to year long apprentanceship. My first two days were horrible. No one knew I was coming. They just logged me on to a computer and told me to "work". The desk was too small for my legs to fit under. The corner they had me was also very small so I couldn't scoot back and spread out my legs that way. I spend ten hours bent over the desk with my knees crammed up against the edge of this desk. The computer kept getting errors and I had to keep shutting it down. No one said or did anything. I don't even know what the firm does none the less what I am supposed to be doing. The woman who owns the firm came in hours later and told me she wanted to go over my errors. ERRORS? I don't even know what the job is! Then she yelled at me for not responding to an email she sent me. Does she have any idea that I don't even have an email account? I mean really? really? She was upset that I hadn't responded and come up to her office two hours ago. I'm not even logged on to anything? No one even knows who I am. Are you kidding me?
The whole time I am there the family I had worked for is sending me text messages begging me to come back. I know that is going to be bad too but it just has to be better than this.
And now I am going back. I am feeling a little defeated- ok, rephrase, a lot defeated. I can't keep being a nanny. Particularly not a nanny who commutes on the metro for an hour and then gets picked up and driven for the last 25 miles. Three days a week I am going to be on the train for almost four hours as I go out to meet them and then turn around and bring the baby back into the city. It is going to be stupid- beyond stupid.
But what bothers me most is that I have been looking for a job. I have been looking pretty diligently. I feel like I am going to be trapped in this job for a while and that makes me very sad. The good part is that at least with being a nanny I'm not having to work weekends. I hate being in a place where I have no good choices. Neither one is good, and I'm still not convinced that I have made the right choice but I had to make one.
At least I have school. Classes start again next month. I'll at least be set up to get to class without any trouble being a nanny. At least I have that.
Things are changing.
I'm still a nanny- and with a little background it will be clear how crazy that is. The family I work for bought a house and moved in the last couple of weeks. I found another job for a few reasons. One, they moved 60 miles out, and although they still wanted me to work for them I thought that commute was INSANE. So monday of this week I started another job. It was miserable. MISERABLE. I don't even know where to start on how to describe why and how it was so bad.
The job was as a legislative analyst. That should be perfect for me. The job would be, the place was nuts. The job had a 6 month to year long apprentanceship. My first two days were horrible. No one knew I was coming. They just logged me on to a computer and told me to "work". The desk was too small for my legs to fit under. The corner they had me was also very small so I couldn't scoot back and spread out my legs that way. I spend ten hours bent over the desk with my knees crammed up against the edge of this desk. The computer kept getting errors and I had to keep shutting it down. No one said or did anything. I don't even know what the firm does none the less what I am supposed to be doing. The woman who owns the firm came in hours later and told me she wanted to go over my errors. ERRORS? I don't even know what the job is! Then she yelled at me for not responding to an email she sent me. Does she have any idea that I don't even have an email account? I mean really? really? She was upset that I hadn't responded and come up to her office two hours ago. I'm not even logged on to anything? No one even knows who I am. Are you kidding me?
The whole time I am there the family I had worked for is sending me text messages begging me to come back. I know that is going to be bad too but it just has to be better than this.
And now I am going back. I am feeling a little defeated- ok, rephrase, a lot defeated. I can't keep being a nanny. Particularly not a nanny who commutes on the metro for an hour and then gets picked up and driven for the last 25 miles. Three days a week I am going to be on the train for almost four hours as I go out to meet them and then turn around and bring the baby back into the city. It is going to be stupid- beyond stupid.
But what bothers me most is that I have been looking for a job. I have been looking pretty diligently. I feel like I am going to be trapped in this job for a while and that makes me very sad. The good part is that at least with being a nanny I'm not having to work weekends. I hate being in a place where I have no good choices. Neither one is good, and I'm still not convinced that I have made the right choice but I had to make one.
At least I have school. Classes start again next month. I'll at least be set up to get to class without any trouble being a nanny. At least I have that.