#plus I’ve been in childcare for almost a decade with no other work experience. nobody wants me y’all

[quillyfied]

Once again preoccupied with the thought that while I’m not particularly pleased to have made a career at this point in childcare, so many other people are and do, and for all the time they spend watching other people’s children so those people can go have their own careers, those childcare workers are paid such a tiny fraction of what the parents make. And if they weren’t there, there goes that parent’s career.

These are generalizations, because IN GENERAL, yeah daycare workers will watch a very successful lawyer’s kids and get to hear all about the many European vacations these kids have already gone on in their short lives, meanwhile the daycare worker has daily visions of what they’d have to do to make ends meet if they were suddenly solely financially responsible for themselves. Not to project or anything. Sometimes parents choose daycare because it’s a necessary expense to make ends meet. Those childcare workers still deserve to be paid more.