Thursday, March 06, 2008
Stay in Shape As A Child Care Worker...
An interesting article at CNN.com from CareerBuilder, talking about the top ten jobs to help you stay in shape. Number three on the list is Child Care Worker, because "carrying kids around, playing outside, picking them up and setting them down is a workout indeed."
While I don't disagree that the work is difficult, I am somewhat depressed that even though we try to portray our career as professional, the image of the job is much like a household laborer... in fact, every other listing in the top ten are laborers: farm workers, house painters, assembly workers, construction laborers, etc. You and I both know that this profession is much more than just manual labor with children.
What is more discouraging, even though I know it is true, is the fact that out of all ten careers, child care workers are the lowest paid on the list.
Do you have any thoughts on this? How do we start changing the public perception of our profession? How do we change the image that all we do is pick up and carry around children?
An interesting article at CNN.com from CareerBuilder, talking about the top ten jobs to help you stay in shape. Number three on the list is Child Care Worker, because "carrying kids around, playing outside, picking them up and setting them down is a workout indeed."
While I don't disagree that the work is difficult, I am somewhat depressed that even though we try to portray our career as professional, the image of the job is much like a household laborer... in fact, every other listing in the top ten are laborers: farm workers, house painters, assembly workers, construction laborers, etc. You and I both know that this profession is much more than just manual labor with children.
What is more discouraging, even though I know it is true, is the fact that out of all ten careers, child care workers are the lowest paid on the list.
Do you have any thoughts on this? How do we start changing the public perception of our profession? How do we change the image that all we do is pick up and carry around children?
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 3:05 PM 
