I've had to come up with pseudonyms for everyone mentioned on this site. Obviously, I would not use a child's real name online, but I also would not use my own name, nor the real names of any family I've ever worked for. Sometimes it's easy to come up with a name substitution. Sometimes it's a bit harder. I can't go into my methods, because it might be too easy to take the fake name and work it backwards until you find the real one. Since my career could, at some point, depend on privacy and discretion, I can't take any risks. Paranoid, much? Yeah...
I've worked for a total of 8 families as a nanny in some capacity. I have yet to even mention all of these families, let alone come up with fake names to represent them, but I think it's time. I'm trying to come up with something clever for each of them, and once I have the names established, I thought I'd go through and discuss each job. A post per day, explaining each one. The good, the bad, the ugly. Every job has been so incredibly different from all the others. It's really interesting to see how many different styles of living and parenting there are out there. Here's a very quick rundown of everyone I've worked for:
The * Family - a summer nanny job when I was a teenager
The * Family - another summer nanny job I had as a teenager
The * Family - my first real nanny job
The * Family - had sort of a nanny-share going with the Johnson Family
The * Family - a summer nanny job while I was in between real jobs
The Q Family - biggest job I've ever had
The V Family - worst job I've ever had
My Current Family - best job I've ever had
Okay, so I can't come up with names on the spot. Hopefully, as I'm writing about each of them, a brilliant pseudonym will suddenly pop into my head. Until then, Mr. Em (Mr. Nanny?) is politely requesting a turn on the computer. Seeing as I'm a nice wife, I shall oblige.
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