I was a 46-year-old live-in nanny, with a salary of 5,000, and my employer had one more person, so I quit immediately
As a 46-year-old single mother, I urgently need a stable job to pay for my daughter's college.
I've been working at my employer's house for more than a year and I get along fairly well with my employer. However, this stable job changed drastically one night.
The employer made me unable to meet the demands, so I had no choice but not to do the job and started looking for other positions.
Nanny Sister Zheng shared: "I was divorced in my early years and had a son and a daughter. The son followed her ex-husband, while the daughter walked with me. Today, my children are in college, and the cost of living is quite high.
Raising a child alone with my ex-husband meant that he was unable to provide funds for my daughter's schooling, and I was unable to support my son. The two of us each take care of a child, which is a stressful life for an ordinary woman, especially someone without a high degree of education.
I have tried a variety of jobs, from an assembly line worker to a restaurant waitress to a supermarket tally clerk. But as I grew older and the cost of my daughter's college education, I decided to switch careers in search of a more stable job, so I found a housekeeping company and became a live-in nanny.
Choosing to be a live-in nanny, in addition to having food and housing, the salary is also higher than other types of work. Every month, I immediately transfer 1,500 yuan to my daughter as living expenses. My daughter and I are both in Guangzhou, she goes to university, and I work as a nanny in Guangzhou. I have 2 days off a month, which is also the time I spend with my daughter.
During the year I worked at my employer's home, I took my work seriously. I have a cheerful personality, a big grin, a good temper, and I get along well with my employer's eldest sister.
The eldest sister of the employer and her husband and wife are over 60 years old and have been retired for many years. Although they have a high pension and are teachers, because the eldest sister has a bad heart, they need to hire someone to take care of the daily grocery shopping, cooking and hygiene. In addition, their daughter (a teacher) and grandchildren from primary school would come back for dinner at noon and return to their home in the evening.
After breakfast, I would go for a walk in the park with my eldest sister and then go to the market to buy groceries.
When I get home, the eldest sister likes to make a pot of tea and eat some snacks. I was busy in the kitchen preparing lunch. When the meal was almost ready, the employer's eldest brother came back leisurely from playing chess outside.
After lunch, they go back to their rooms to rest while I clean up the kitchen. Then, I would go into the small space of the study for a lunch break. Although I am very satisfied with living a spacious and bright life in a big city compared to the small house I shared with my colleagues before.
However, that very night, the eldest sister made a request that surprised me. She told me that she decided to take her old father home because of the unfair treatment he had received at her brother's house after he had suffered a stroke. But the room in the house was limited, and she wanted me to sleep on the sofa in the living room and give up my room to the elderly.
I agreed to this arrangement, thinking that it was okay to sleep on the sofa when I was young and strong, and the elderly needed more care.
However, when the old man actually moved in, I realized that things were not as simple as I thought. The workload has increased significantly, and embarrassing things have followed.
The elderly have limited mobility and can only stay at home all day long. Every time my eldest sister and I came back from the park, a smell of urine came to our faces. It turned out that the elderly had an urgent need to urinate, and they were already incontinent before they had time to go to the toilet. Every time, the eldest sister needs to help him wash and change his clothes and pants.
And what is even more embarrassing is that only the eldest sister alone cannot complete this task and needs the help of the eldest brother. After they worked together to help the elderly change into clean clothes and pants, I had to quickly clean the living room and clean up urine stains. After that, I had to wash and dry the old man's clothes and pants, and then hurriedly prepare dinner.
The arrival of the old man not only increased my work load, but also brought a series of embarrassments. Especially at night, when I fall asleep on the couch in a daze, I often feel as if there is someone next to me. Although I thought that I was sleepy and delusional, then I heard the sound of rapid breathing, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that it was an old man sitting on the sofa next to me, looking at me intently.
I was startled, and suddenly woke up from my dream, and a spirit, and quickly sat up.
Tremblingly asked, "Sir, what's wrong with you?" "He sat next to me with a strange look.
The old gentleman calmly replied: "It's okay, I can't sleep, so I'll get up and sit down for a while." ”
Hearing my screams, the eldest sister and her husband came out of the bedroom and asked what was going on.
I said in a trembling voice, "The old gentleman has woken me up." ”
The eldest sister asked her father, "Dad, what are you doing in the living room when you don't sleep so late?" ”
The old gentleman explained, "I really can't sleep, so I come out and sit. ”
The eldest brother said: "Even if you can't sleep, don't go out of the living room, Xiao Zheng is sleeping here, you will wake her up like this." ”
The old gentleman suddenly realized the problem, and he got up and staggered back to his room.
They all went back to the bedroom, but I had completely lost the desire to sleep.
I decided that sleeping in the living room for a long time was not an option. If the old gentleman appeared next to me again, I would probably be scared half to death. Also, sleeping on the couch for a long time is not good for my waist.
At dawn the next day, I prepared breakfast, and after eating, I said goodbye to my eldest sister and wife.
They advised me to stay, but I resolutely refused.
The eldest sister said: "She will tell my father not to go out of the living room at night, you can rest assured to stay." ”
I still insisted on leaving, sleeping in the living room for a long time, without even a little personal space.
In this way, I said goodbye to my employer's eldest sister's house.