Redditor Tells Their Babysitting Rate Is $35 An Hour To Cousin, Family Drama Ensues

• By Hussain
• August 14, 2023
• 4 minutes read

In a world where time is often equated with money, a simple request for babysitting services turned into a heated debate over the value of time. Shared by a Reddit user known as OP, this thought-provoking story sheds light on the clash between personal worth and societal expectations, leaving readers pondering the true value of different endeavors.

OP, a talented software engineer juggling a full-time job and a thriving freelance coding career, has always been a proponent of using spare time productively. With a penchant for side hustles, they sought to occupy their Christmas vacation with both family time and progress on their freelance projects.

However, fate had other plans in store when OP’s cousin and her husband, in need of child care for their three young kids, requested their assistance during the vacation. Sensing an opportunity to put their time to good use, OP expressed their initial intention of focusing on their freelance work at the local library. Yet, when offered compensation for babysitting services, a delicate negotiation commenced, pitting the perceived worth of babysitting against the established rates of their coding expertise.

Understanding the complexity and challenge of babysitting, a realm unfamiliar to them, OP sought to strike a balance between fairness and the recognition of their skills. Balancing the scales of personal worth, OP proposed a rate of $35 per hour, below their freelance coding rates but above their full-time job earnings. The intention behind this proposition was to account for the difficulty and stress they anticipated in caring for three young children, emphasizing that it would be a demanding task compared to their routine coding work.

Keep on scrolling down to read the full story in OP’s own words and we will see you at the end of the article.

1. Is OP an A-hole for saying that her babysitting rates are $35 an hour?

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2. The OP is a software engineer with a full-time job

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3. OP’s freelance hourly rates are $60 an hour!

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4. Over Christmas vacation OP was staying at her parent’s house

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5. OP was planning on doing some work on her freelance projects when she had free time in the mornings

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6. OP’s cousin and her cousin’s husband asked OP if she could babysit all day for three days

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7. OP said she could if they got close to her freelance rates

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8. So OP said $35 which is below what OP makes hourly at work!

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9. But OP’s cousin went crazy at OP

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10. OP said that it’s way below what she’d make if she had the time to do her own work!

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11. Then her husband got mad at OP!

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12. OP was done and told them that she hoped they could find someone else

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13. OP’s mom thinks that she asked for something offensive

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14. This Redditor says that they wanted OP to do it as a favor

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15. Exactly if they really wanted to go away for three days they should have arranged a babysitter in advance!

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16. “She offered to pay you, you named your price.”

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17. Yeah why aren’t they babysitting?

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18. Exactly your time, your rates.

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19. This Redditor says that OP should have simply stated that she cannot babysit because she is working

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20. Exactly OP is the only one who can put a price on her time!

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