Saturday morning

Last night we had a great BBQ at the house! Loads of food, beer, and laughs :)
I received a phone call around 8pm and it went a little something like this:

"hi Jenaveeve, this is Justine. You replied to my ad on Gumtree.."
"oh yah for the vodka promotions?"
"no.....for the au pair position"

hahahahahaha me as an au pair???? Seriously though I've just been applying everywhere and for everything.
The reason I applied to this au pair job was that room and board and all meals were included, 35-40 hours a week, weekends and evenings off (with the exception of the odd, pre-arranged time here and there).
Red Flag Moments:

• right off the bat, one of the kids (boy, 2 or girl, 4) was screaming while the mother was trying to do a freaking phone interview!!! At one point she asked her husband "can you take him?"....like, wouldn't you pre-arrange that with your spouse BEFORE getting on the phone with a potential new au pair?

• a 2-year old still in diapers. The mother literally said "there's no point trying to potty-train them if they're not ready, unless they're going into kinder, and he's not due until 2013." now I'm no expert on children or when to/not to start trying to potty-train, but diapers aren't really my thing..... The girl (4 years) goes to kinder and wears nappies to bed, so I guess that's normal...

Long story short I slept on it, woke up this morning, spoke with my father, and texted the mother to thank her for the opportunity but that I wasn't the right candidate for the job and good luck with her search. YES I could have done it for a month and just said that it wasn't working out, but then that's kinda bad karma AND it's not fair to the kids to have a rotating roster of au-pairs...plus if you live with a family you never know when/if they will ask you to do things that aren't really in your job description/hours so..... I think I made the right choice.

Keep wishing me luck/sending positive vibes for the job search. I'm working with a kosher catering company tomorrow morning (need to leave the house at 6am....yuck!) and I might be working in their kitchen doing prep on Monday Tuesday Wednesday, if no temp gigs turn up.