You ran a household for twenty years. There are families near you who cannot keep up with theirs, and they will pay well for a few hours of your week. You pick the work, the days, and how far you will drive.
About three minutes to apply.
Two or three mornings a week at the same house. Cleaning, laundry, meals, errands, keeping the calendar straight. It is the work you did for your own family, except this time somebody pays you for it.
The family pays $35. You keep $30 of it, sent to your bank after every visit. Nothing to invoice, nothing to chase, no waiting until Friday.
Your days, your hours, how far you will drive. Take a month off in February. Nobody asks you to explain.
Usually somebody is home, and usually there is coffee. By the third week you will know the dog's name and how she takes hers.
Four steps. A person on our end at every one of them.
Retail is strangers. Cleaning is an empty house at nine at night. Home care is watching people decline. This is a family who is glad to hear your car in the driveway.
The same house, the same kids, week after week. You will learn which one will not eat crusts, and she will stop having to tell you.
She will tell you what a difference it made. She will also pay you $30 an hour, which is the part that pays the car.
No supervisor, no shift, no ratings to keep up. You do the work you agreed to and you go home.
Every Marm goes through both steps before she meets anyone. The family is told exactly what we did — and you are told exactly what they were told.
People who know your work. A real conversation, not a form that goes into a drawer.
You complete it with Checkr, directly, on their own pages. Marmee never sees your Social Security number and has nowhere to store one.
The same woman every week, so the list stops living in your head. Nothing to hand over on the way out. Nothing to check when you get back. By the third visit she knows your Tuesday better than you can explain it.
$35 an hour. No subscription, no minimum, no charge until a visit actually happens.
Move a visit at eleven at night from your phone. Skip a week without a call or a reason. Add to the grocery list from the school pickup line. Sunday stops being the day you catch up.
Portland, South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Scarborough, Westbrook and the towns around them. Somewhere else? Start the form anyway — put in your ZIP and we will tell you the day we open near you.
Marmee is new, and only here. That is on purpose: one metro, a small number of women, and every reference call made by a person rather than a form. If something is wrong you get a human being, not a ticket number.