Am i daft to look for a new job

[pinkdaffodil23]

Hi looking for others thoughts cause im not sure if im just being daft at the moment.
I work as a full time nanny for a family with three children none are yet at school. I love the family and they treat me like family but i feel a little fed up at the moment.
I always look to see what jobs are out there but thats normal but recently I have really found myself wanting a new job. I would say im paid mid range i get £7.50 net p/h i have 7 years childcare experience half as a nanny half in nurseries and have a childcare degree. I am currently finding myself feeling really bored and not challenged at all and really not apprecuated by the family. I go away with them often and often do over time. I know they want me to stay on until the youngest goea to school which is three years away. Am i daft for wanting to look for a new job. I know if i left they would be really upset witj me and i would really miss the children but I also feel like I need a change. Im so confused I really dont know what to do. I dont have a contract either and have been with the family for three years.
any advice lovely people?

There not the kind of people to sit and have a chat they like to think that everything is rosy. My thoughts were to send them an email as to how Im feeling, the points that are effecting me etc, to then lead on to being able to have a proper talk about things when they get back

What?! No wonder you're burnt out! If I were near you I'd boot you out the door to that interview.

You need to sit down with your employers and a list of grievances.

These people are exploiting you and you are making a mistake by staying with them under such conditions. You will never get back the years that you are wasting

if you are going away with them then not a holiday/break for you and you still need you are entitled to 22.4days if 4 days a week, away from family!!!!

i thought 28 as you said fulltime

no wonder you are tired/burnt out as work non stop/have no weekend, and gawd i hope they pay you for working friday night/saturday

if no contract then talk to them and get one stating hours/pay/holiday and say in it you dont go away with them

why did you cancel interview? try and rebook it

Just asked for last two messages to be removed think I have made my self to identifiable from them oopsi

Just seen this thread pinkdaffodil. You must get a contract and proper holidays set out it sounds like this family are using you and as others have said, In the end they will not worry when the time comes to let you go.

You seem almost a little depressed and afraid of life. The other interview would have given you an idea of what else is on offer but if the job was offered you could have decided then if it was for you or not. and as for giving in notice you just need to say that you have enjoyed working for them but have decided you need a change and will be leaving at the end of notice period. You work for them they don't own you.

Hi

I was in the same situation as you. I was working full time (50 - to 60 hours a week), with a little boy since he was less than 2 months old. I was supposed to be paid 7 pounds net an hour, but as the parents were always 15/20 minutes late, I ended up working for less than £7 per hour.

I had a really good relation with the parents, loved the little boy.

But I couldn't help being annoyed by how little I was paid (I used to be paid £10 net per hour but it was a part time so I just thought that I had to accept less). And in addition to taking the little boy to activitie, I had to do all the cleaning, washing clothes and ironing (for the parents too), polish the silver, etc...

In January, I left the job, the parents were not happy. But I was killing myself for a bad salary. It took me some (stressfull) weeks, but I finally have been offered two jobs. One was £10 an hour with one family and the second one, a nanny share, £12 net per hour. I took the second one. I have started this week.

I miss the little boy, for sure. I felt guilty to leave the family, for sure. But I am happy I am not strugling that much with money. And I am already love the two babies i work with. And the families are also super nice. But they don't ask me to do so much.

I am sorry, but £7 an hour for three kids, with 7 years of experience, that is nothing. And I am sure you can find better (even if I have to warn you, it is indeed harder to get a good job well paid now than it was 3 years ago, it is true. But I am sure you can find something) (Oh by the way I live in London, I don't know for the rest of UK).

Being a nanny means that you get more emiotionally involved with the family. But I have realised that at the end of the day, it's a job. And I give the same amount of love/attention to the children wether I am paid £7 or £12.

Wow, sorry that was long. What I am trying to say is that you should think about yourself first. And if you can get a better job, with a better pay, you should take it. The family will find another nanny (And you can also just tell them that you either need a pay rise, or you will need to find a new job). And to be honest, does the family thinks about you when they pay you so little for so much work, with not a lot of breaks and no contract? I am not sure of it. ;)