Query: live in caregiver experience
 

Is having experience as a teacher of children, (1 full year) significant enough for the live in caregiver programme?

I would be grateful for any advice, thanks

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Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

Don't know. But you might want to seach for Babyblue's posts - just to get an idea of what you *might* let yourself in for... :eek:

I wonder what happened to her after she finally made it back home?

Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

YES. :rofl:

Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

She reported here that things were going well for her in the UK.

Nowhere, I second Elvira's advice to check out Babyblue's posts -- not in her last discussion thread in which she reported being happily settled back in the UK, but in the threads that she started months before that.

I know a few nannies in Calgary. One of them is very happy with her employers, a couple are reasonably satisfied, and a couple are miserable, tolerating situations that I think most people would consider abusive because their families back in the Philippines depend on the money they send home.

Edited to add that I realise a live in nanny and a live in caregiver are not the same thing. Still, the situations have some similarities, in that you are living under the same roof as your employer(s).

Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

Hi nowhere, have just looked at your previous threads - are you aware that you must pass a medical to qualify for the live in caregiver visa?

Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

yes, i know you need to have a medical.. but I dont see why they would find me inadmissable for that.. I mean, I have suffered from depression before but not anymore. I am a full functioning person who has a job, a degree and totally sane! Every other person seems to be on anti-depressants these days. I mean, do you think they would still refuse me??

Re: Query: live in caregiver experience
 

Yes your experience does qualify you as a live in caregiver. I came to Canada on this programme many many years ago.

Unfortunately babyblue did not have a very good experience with her employer and had a really hard time, but it is not always the case.

I had three employers in the almost eight years that I did childminding, the last of which I stayed with for 5 years, to this day I still keep in contact with them.

There are some really good employers out there and some really bad ones, just as you would find in any industry I suppose.