My Nannying Job from Hell: a rant on modern marketing
I have been doing full-time nannying jobs for the past 6 years. For 6 years I have loved the job. It provides great hours, I make a good bit over minimum wage, and as a business major, I end up making some great professional connections with the parents. I have been very lucky with the families I have worked for. Usually, by the end of the summer I feel as though I am a part of the family and leave on the last day kinda sad that it's over. But, that was the PAST 6 years; this was year 7 and it freaking sucked. I learned a lot this summer about myself, about people and about how people can really just, well, suck. I also learned that there is a new trend of marketing that is destroying children and parents are okay with it. There were many things that were horrible about this job, so much so that I can not even adequately type out the entire thing in a blog. I knew it was going to be bad when the previous nanny reached out to me and apologized for the summer I was about to have....