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Staff rate job satisfaction and struggles
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
10 April 2008
A love of children, dissatisfaction with alternative careers or being able to do flexible hours are the main reasons people choose to work in childcare, according to the IPPR study For Love or Money.
But the report also found many young staff were working in second and even third jobs to try to make ends meet. One 19-year-old spoke of the stress of juggling college, childcare work and her second job in a pub. She said, 'I get ill but I can't afford to have time off work because it's crap pay, so I end up going in and making myself worse.' Focus groups...
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