What would you do?

[bookworm1989]

Hi,

I'm a mother's help at the moment, basically working an AP's job, but I'm british & not yet qualified, so not a nanny. I utterly adore the family I'm with atm, and can't imagine ever gelling with another family the same way, but really don't much like the job other than them. The children are lovely people, but also extremely lazy, messy and set in their ways. The family's standards of hygeine don't meet mine in terms of cooking & cleaning, and their dog regularly eats my food/money/clothes (unfortunately he can get into my room.) I love where I am, the people here etc, but am not sure how much longer I can tolerate this environment. Would you sit tight or look for a new job?

Have you looked into what training you could do? If you want to work with children in the UK, I feel you need some formal childcare training. I did a 2 year college course which meant that I had to go part-time work (I was working in retail, so was quite easy to go part-time and do Weekends and Bank Holidays, then full-time during college holiday periods).

Try to look long term... where do you see yourself in 3 year, 5 years, 10 years?