Nemo (whose real name is Liu Yu), a 29-year-old girl from Shandong Province, studied music at university, went to Japan to study for a year in 2014, and after returning to China, worked as a makeup artist in Beijing for two years, playing the violin, playing the piano and speaking fluent Japanese. Nemo's attention stemmed from her current occupation as a full-time live-in nanny. Cooking, cleaning, helping children with their homework... I have been in this industry for 5 years. Recently, Nemo said in an interview with the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter that for her work, many people do not understand, but she herself is very satisfied with the current work status, monthly income of more than 10,000, but also package food and housing, and can learn a lot of things, has been a good choice for North Drift, "I think work, as long as you are happy, I never care about others." ”
Post-90s girls work as live-in nannies
Monthly income of more than 10,000
Recently, a series of live-in nanny work shared by the post-90s girl Nemo on social platforms has attracted daily attention. Her real name is Liu Yu, a native of Dongying, Shandong, with a height of 153cm and 92 pounds, is a girl who likes to study small people and can play the violin. She often wears a pair of large round glasses, a refreshing high ponytail, and a spontaneous and cute smile.
Nemo with a cute smile on his glasses
Nemo uses vlogs to record life, but the difference is that cleaning and studying food in the video is not only her joy of life, but also her daily work. Born in 1992, Nemo is now just 29 years old and is already a live-in nanny with nearly 5 years of experience in housekeeping.
She calls the couple who hired her "employer," and now Nemo works for her fourth home since she became a live-in nanny, and with her employer's approval, she posts her day-to-day job online. The employer has a daughter whose job is to take care of the children and complete all the chores such as cleaning and tidying up the house, from communicating with the child's teacher about learning problems, to feeding the cat and cleaning the windows.
Nemo introduced her life to reporters: "Get up at six o'clock in the morning to make breakfast, wait for the child to get up, take her to eat, brush her teeth, comb her hair, and then drive her to kindergarten; during the child's study, I will go home first and find some housework to do; in the afternoon, when the child is out of school, I go to the kindergarten to pick her up; when I go home in the evening, I take the child to read English picture books and practice playing the piano." ”
"Wait until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the child goes to watch TV, or plays with his mother, and I can leave work." Nemo said her employer deliberately set her up a separate room with a wardrobe and single bed, as well as a desk for her to set up small items. She now earns more than 10,000 yuan a month, lives in Beijing, eats and lives, does not have to pay rent, and has a lot less financial burden for her, "I am very satisfied with this state of work, at least every day is very happy." ”
A coincidence
Music students get started in the domestic industry
When it comes to the relationship with the housekeeping industry, Nemo said there is a story behind it. She studied violin and piano since she was a child, majored in music as an undergraduate, and studied in Japan for another year in 2015, because she did not like the fixed job of nine to five after returning to China, and did not want to engage in music training industry step by step, so she first worked as a makeup artist in Beijing for two years.
It can be said that before the age of 24, all of Nemo's growth experiences have nothing to do with "housekeeping" and "nanny". At a makeup event in early 2017, she met her first home employer, "I was giving makeup to a lady, and I was talking about it, and it was during that time that their family needed a live-in nanny who could order Japanese and knew some musical instruments, and invited me to take her children, which was the beginning of my entry into the housekeeping industry." ”
Soon after working in this family, because the hostess's family was moving out of Beijing, Nemo's work as a live-in nanny had to be interrupted. After this, she took the initiative to put her resume into the housekeeping industry, and the next day after looking for a job, she successfully joined a professional housekeeping company, "so that you can pay five social insurance and one gold, and there are many alternative home nanny positions." ”
"Why did you choose to work as a live-in nanny again?" Hearing this question, Nemo smiled, she carefully calculated the account, "When I was a makeup artist, the bride and makeup were only three hundred a day, the crew gave less, if the income was only three or four thousand if it was unstable in a month, my house rent in Beijing was more than 3,000, and this job package ate and lived, and the salary could be saved..."
Nemo cooked himself a meal
Worked for two years before telling my parents
They don't understand to respect
Nemo said that during her study in Japan, she practiced her oral language quite skillfully because she had to work part-time, and learned music from an early age, making her a "fragrant feast" in the eyes of many employers. ”
However, Nemo's live-in nanny job search road has not been smooth, she told reporters, and the obstacle is mainly due to the incomprehension of others. In 2017, when Nemo decided to change her job search to a live-in nanny, she didn't dare to tell anyone, including her parents, that her friends who grew up with her didn't know about it until more than three months after she entered the industry.
It was not until the end of 2019 that she plucked up the courage to tell her parents about the job of a live-in nanny, "When I told them, I talked more about the advantages of the housekeeping industry, and tried to avoid some deficiencies, such as higher wages, no rent pressure, and happier with children." Under her soothing communication, her father was still able to understand her thoughts, and her mother was slightly mindful.
Not long ago, she publicly posted the daily life of the live-in nanny on the social platform, and at first did not tell her parents, "As a result, my mother accidentally brushed it on the mobile phone and blocked my WeChat." Fortunately, she knew her parents' temper better and used some "small means" to persuade her mother to come back.
Nemo with his parents
Nemo's parents are post-60s, working in his hometown of Dongying, and only Nemo has one daughter. On the evening of December 22, the reporter contacted Nemo's father, who explained to the reporter the reason why his wife was angry, "Liu Yu (Nemo's real name) began to learn violin from a young age, her mother spent a lot of effort for her growth, and relatives and friends around her knew that she felt that her child should find a job that sounded higher and bigger, and it was more faceful to say it. ”
Compared with his wife, Nemo's father can see openly, his daughter said that she likes the job, in his opinion, the child is the most important thing to have a happy life, "You see like our post-60s generation, few people will choose their career according to their preferences, and now young people can do what they like, take hobbies as careers, I will respect her choice." ”
The immediate goal of a live-in nanny
Save enough money to take your parents to Sanya for a trip
Nemo said that the pressure caused by not understanding comes not only from the people around him, but also from strangers on the Internet. Her personal account often receives two voices of doubt, one saying: "You are so young as a nanny, it must be fake!" Another voice is a mockery of young people as live-in nannies, "Isn't this the life of a stay-at-home mother, or even easier?" Nemo said that being a live-in nanny is not a whim, but in this position, I have learned a lot, know how to guide my children to learn, and have also practiced a good cooking skill.
"It turns out that I am a person who often loses everything, but now I am very strict and careful, taking my children out, and my bag is full of all kinds of personal supplies, just like that." In addition, this job makes her originally independent personality more "independent", "I will define the relationship between employer and employment, meet an employer who is better for me, I will definitely feel warm, but I will do all the psychological construction, will not have expectations, try not to trouble others." 」 ”
During this time, Nemo was relieved that as she took the initiative to share the life of a live-in nanny, her parents gradually learned about her daily work. She will also send it to her parents to check before uploading the video, listening to their suggestions, "such as trying to protect people's privacy and not exposing the child's face." ”
Nemo in the filming of the video
Nemo has a plan to save another 3 months' money and she will take her parents and two to Sanya for a trip. Hearing his daughter's thoughts, Nemo's father said: "I am looking forward to it, because it was the tour she prepared, she gave a little for us, and we are all very pleased." ”
At the end of the interview, Nemo said that she also had a wish: "I hope that everyone will be more tolerant of the diversity of social occupations, and do not wear 'colored glasses'." ”
Purple Cow News trainee reporter | Sun Qingyun
Edit | ice crystals
Edited | Wan Huijuan
Editor-in-chief| Chen Dichen
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