According to Indeed, the average salary for a nanny in New York City is over $50,000.
\nIt can be a tough job at times, but it\u2019s one that can pay the bills and often times doesn\u2019t require higher education.<\/p>\n
But for Lyn Thomas, a nanny of 30 years, no matter the job she held, a higher education was always something she dreamed of.
\nNow she\u2019s the proud owner of an associate\u2019s degree and has plans to attend Hunter College where she\u2019ll work towards her bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n
When Thomas was 18 years old she moved from the Caribbean island of Grenada to to New York to be with her mother. She eventually found work cleaning houses and working as a nanny.<\/p>\n
She dreamed of completing school, but one thing led to another and decades passed.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until Thomas was 48 years old that she earned her GED, and then just a few years later at 51 she earned her associate\u2019s degree in public health from Borough of Manhattan Community College.
\nThomas was even on the dean\u2019s list!<\/p>\n