To ask how much you would pay a 24/7 nanny, wet nurse, maid, cook...

[AccidentalLentil]

I might start charging DP. I'd be raking it in, I might not even have to go back to work.

Well, a normal job is 8 hours a day so you start by multiplying everyhting by three.

Well if I charged £7 per hour (my wage when not on mat leave) which I think is more than reasonable for just a nanny let alone the others. I'd make it £61,320 a year, not bad.

ought not to be 24/7 unless there is a VERY unfair division of labour or failure to delegate responsibility/empower the DH

I tell you what drives me mad, seeing as we're on the subject, is why it is easy when we are doing it but hard when men or childcare workers are doing it. When there are threads about housework and SAHM, people say, "how hard is it to run a hoover around and put laundry on?". When nannies are involved, it is "how can you make the poor women do all your work for so little money, it is modern day slavery?". When WOHDs are mentioned, "they work so hard, how can you make them do housework when they get home?". These things can't all be true. Either it is a piece of piss, in which case why can't men do some when they get home and nannies do it all while looking after the DCs OR it is hard in which case it is not cool to expect women to do it all during the day as well as childcare.

I tried to charge DH, strangely enough he didn't

I've calculated this for the benefit of DH. The answer is: ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Oops!

He didn't go for it. I am now back ay work but it was worth a try :o

:o :o terrier

DeepThought We do did have "blue jobs" and "pink jobs" which worked quite well. He does do bits but huffs like a teenage boy or expects a bloody medal. He did once utter the words "but I go out to work, it's my day off... you have every day off" he was very swiftly corrected and apologised profusely.
MrsTerryPratchett Very god point. Apparently easy when I do it, not so when if he does it.
TerrierMalpropre

I do all this PLUS I installed my Sky HD box yesterday so you can add Sky installer to that list too. A meeeeeelion dollars is a bargain, I think.

Oh and I'll add hand man (well woman).

*handyman

What bugs me is dh ticking me offfor, for example, leaving the cereal box out of the cupboard. - '' how hard is it for you to put things away as you go?''
What I wanted to say, but didn't because he was cleaning the kitchen and who wants to mess with that kind of magic was ''probably as hard as you find it to hang up the sodden bath mat or put your pants in the laundry basket rather than next to it.''

ARRRG the fuckin bath mat, god only knows how he gets it so wet. And YY to pants.