Sweet Job
I just got paid $42 for walking on the beach and playing Eagle Eye for a couple hours! And I’m going to continue getting paid for that for pretty much as long as I want, up to 8 years. I landed a job as a tutor/mentor/nanny to a family with three kids. The two boys are 10 and 13 years old, the daughter is developmentally disabled and 20 years old. I was a little nervous about the disability part, but I was honest about that with the parents and they seem cool with me learning as I go. Today was a “getting-to-know-you” sort of a day. I just spent a couple hours with the kids while Jan (the mom) went for a long walk. They live in a nice house and their backyard is, quite literally, the Nisqually Delta. We spent some time down there on the beach, and then played Eagle Eye (a hide-n-seek type game) in their yard. I’m pretty stoked about it. I’ll start doing it consistently when summer camps are over, in about three weeks.
July 21st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Will it be sporadic or regular? How about during the school year? How old is the DD person mentally?
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 pm
It’ll be a regular 25 hour a week gig year-round. When the kids are in school, I’ll do grocery shopping, laundry, etc. The girl is interesting, and I don’t think I can pin down an age for her. In some ways she is very young, but in others she’s more advanced. Her mom says that the girl has always been really content wherever she is, and has always been happy to have other people do things for her. They had to really push her to learn how to crawl, because she never really felt like she needed to be somewhere else. And if she wanted something, she could just get someone else to bring it to her. I can relate to this
In some ways she’s 5 or 6, and in others she’s 12 or 13. I suspect she’s capable of more than she lets on.
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Will it be the same days and hours each week? 25 hrs is just right for a job I think.