nannying is the easiest job ever

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Said the interviewee this afternoon, so she won't be getting the job!

What else was wrong with her?
If you love the job, it is! - we've had a couple of nannies with that attitude and goodness they were nice to employ

She didn't mention loving the job, loving kids, has very bitty cv, not convinced she'd stick with it

Hmm. My nanny (been with us nearly 4 years) said it was an easy job at interview as she'd only be looking after a 6 month baby as opposed to the 3 kids between baby and 7 years old she'd previously been looking after but is very keen and lovely with the kids. Agree that you combine that claim with her CV and approach then its time to be abit cautious...

Bit of a daft reason not to employ imo.

at times it can be the easiest job :)

but other days it can be sheer hell when you have a tired tantruming snotty nosed ill toddler, plus older ones to sort out homework/tea etc

nannying has good and bad days just as any job does

It would depend on what other jobs they have done... nannying I find a lot easier than being on the customer service desk of PC World on a Boxing Day dealing with returns of things that the customer considers don't work.

Nannying isn't that easy at times... like all jobs it has good moments and bad moments.

Bit strange for someone at an interview I feel to say that nannying is easy... though they may consider the actual job they are applying for to likely to be easier than ones they have had in the past - such as nannying for 2 children instead of 4.

Very bitty CV is a reason to consider though... if their track history is not to stay in jobs very long, then they may not be ideal if you are looking for a long term nanny.

as others have said.. on hot summers days when you play in the paddling pool or go to the beach with lots of other great friends nannies and their charges, nannying can be wonderful (who else would get paid to do that? or go to the zoo? or paid to go sledging when it snows? or if not feeling 100% get to sit and watch a DVD for an hour while "working"?)

BUT when you work 12+ hour days, and your bosses are late home, and you have a tantrummy toddler, a child home with a sickness bug, so get projectile vomitted on throughout that day and are feeling really ill yourself (with "that bug" that your charges passed on to you), but you feel you have to go to work as your boss has a very important meeting (many of our bosses DO have high profle job with VERY important meetings) and you dont get any form of break all day, it can be pretty tough!

thankfully i had far more days of the 1st kind than the 2nd, but when its one of those days / weeks and due to ill children you are stuck in its not so great at all!

If this came from an experienced nanny i would translate it as 'it is easy for me because i enjoy it, suits my personality'.

From a new nanny, you can translate it 'i don't have a clue and got into nannying because i thought it will be easy money'.

Don't we all have this in our families too? In my family it is me who finds babies very easy but tax return and bills fill me with fear, it takes me ages to just check a bank balance . Dh finds banking or IT 'easy'.

Maybe she worded it badly.