My daycare work

I work in a private, subsidized daycare. I used to work in two different CPEs for 24 hours each. I was a pedagogical director there. In charge of staff and children. Sometimes doing the pay, sometimes planning outings and meetings. I loved my job, but it wasn’t a job I could just go home at the end of the day and call it a day. I often had to bring work home.. and consequently had to ignore my family or wait until they were in bed to get my work done. By which time I would be physically and mentally exhausted.

So when I got pregnant, I took the opportunity to quit my jobs and found another job working as my first career… an educator.

I am now an educator with 24 three-year olds. 8 of which are assigned to me, but my class contains 24 children.

I work all week from 8 to 5… it takes me one hour to come home at night in the traffic as I have three highways to take to reach my house. The daycare itself is not very far as it is approximately 16 km from my house.

The staff is very nice. Quite new to the daycare work field. My co-workers are awesome. I get to enjoy working beside two wonderful women. We have good laughs and we don’t get in each other’s way.

I work hard with the children. I do my best to make them as autonomous as they can and make them excel in everything they want to. I love to watch them grow. I can compare the children I have now to the children I had back in September, they are miles away in terms of development.

But I chose this job because there is no drama. I chose it because I get to go home at the end of the day and very rarely have work to do.. and if I do have work to do, it takes a few minutes and I can actually that type of work with my own three children around.

I mostly work here for the hassle free environment. I don’t argue with the system. I often wonder why many things are done, but I decide to go with the flow. I have a spot for my one-year-old in the daycare and will work here until she gets to school (Or transferred to a CPE)

But lately there has been drama. Not related to me.. but related to the government subsidies. And I really don’t feel like getting involved in the politics of a daycare. I really wanted to get away from all that by becoming an educator.

We are going on our second lock-out day next Wednesday. The bosses are pressuring us to go picket in the strike zone downtown so that they will get their equal share of the money from the government as that of CPEs.

I couldn’t give less of a crap than I do now. Seriously. As long as I can bring my kid to daycare, and work for the hours I am supposed to and get paid.. and go home, I am satisfied. This job is being worked by me because it is hassle free… bring in the hassle, I don’t know what I am doing here anymore.

So instead of working a normal day next Wednesday, I have to pack up my stuff, pack up my baby’s stuff, take a very long bus/metro ride downtown, where there will be way too many humans gathered, in order to strike against something for my bosses.

Is there a way to strike against strikes? Because I would. All I want is a hassle free job. Work, pay, sleep. At least until my daughter gets to school, where life changes very much.

Anyways, I gotta go back to work right now.. so have a great afternoon to you all. And hopefully I will not see any of you next wednesday.

Rox