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Am I doing 'too much'

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kirsty12321 · 20/06/2011 11:42

I've been in my current(and first) nanny job since sept '10
I work a 65 hour week living out Monday - Thursday 14 hour days and 9 hours on a Friday. I care for two little boys 17 months and 3 yrs, they dint go to nursery are just cared for by me, they both only have 20 mins sleep during the day. I cook all the childrens meals and I do all the family's laundry Inc clothes bedding towels suits ect and ironing, I also have to clean the whole 4 storey 5 bathroom 6 bedroom house every week, the is alongside buying groceries arranging activities making observation folders and running errands the children wake at 6 when I arrive and get into bed at 730 . I am paid £6 an hour gross?

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kirsty12321 · 20/06/2011 12:09

When I started the children were at nursery two full days a week and I would drop them off and go back and clean all day then pick up again at tea time but now thyve dropped the two days I'm still expected to do the same amount of cleaning as I was when I had 'allocated days to do it' I expected this was normal a

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ChitChattingagain · 20/06/2011 11:55

So you're basically a housekeeper/nanny? If the parent is there you would be a Mother's help, and HELPING with all of those tasks for those hours, I could understand a £6 an hour gross rate. But doing them yourself? No, I think you're being underpaid for what you are actually doing.

Did it start like that or did the tasks get introduced gradually?

annh · 20/06/2011 11:55

Yes, you are doing far too much. Either sit down and renegotiate salary with the parents or drop some of the chores - you should not be doing laundry for the whole family or cleaning the whole house either or alternatively, get yourself a new job. I think the latter is more likely as no reasonable family would have asked this level of work from a nanny in the first place.

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