Usually, you're hired or you're not hired.
Usually, things are pretty clean-cut. You start work, or you keep hunting for another job.
Somehow, I have been in the middle of nanny chaos. After numerous near-hires, I'm now in a weird "am I hired?" phase. It started out with emails in the middle of April with a decline for an interview at Easter. However, after one family hired me and then got cold feet, I called to reschedule.
Another month later, 2 interviews, a trial run and a paid evening babysitting, I have no idea what I've agreed to.
Sure, we've talked about all the issues: vacation pay, hours, expectations, hourly rate, childcare responsibilities, start date, etc. But we've missed one key one: whether or not I'm actually hired. I keep reading into everything:
"If she wants me to learn their bedtime routine, does it mean I'm hired?"
"She said she wanted to wait to talk until after she called my references, what does that mean?"
"So... she said that she'll just call me for random nights... does that mean I'm just another sitter now?"
Everything is a mess.
I give it 4 more days before I admit to being utterly confused.
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