Being an Au pair in Holland: to do or not?

Hi Qtee,

Welcome on board to this site and I hope that somebody can answer your questions.

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Thank you. Im lookin forward to it..

My best friend was an aupair in NL for 4 months and she had pretty mixed feelings about it.  If you love kids and can find a nice family, then I say go for it.  The Dutch tend to be very laid back and NL is a beautiful country, and in any case it's a good learning experience.  You can try the site greataupair.com to meet families. 
To give you an idea, my friend's main difficulties were:
Not having her own private living space (she had her own floor but shared a kitchen)
Being highly educated but resorting to arguing with quite bratty children
Being rather taken advantage - her family was very kind, but they didn't really respect her time, which she found very frustrating understandably.
I think the main thing that really wore her down was that because she was a) foreign and b) working with kids, people tended to think she wasn't very intelligent.  That grates on you after a while!

Hey there sophieinclogs:
thanks for takin your time responding my post. I just instantly thought about few things after reading your words. I personally believe and understand your friend's difficulties towards the situation. I myself could even sometimes wonder why I would do it instead of practicing my profession. But i guess that's what we call risk. I Love kids, (i find foreign kids cute as well) I just dont know the attitudes and they might exhaust my patience. Lol. But thinkin a lot of Filipinos are doin that makes me feel like doin as well. : )

Hey, is your friend Canadian as well?