Missoula Rabble, Luke just got back from Germany where he spent a year working as a nanny, or au pair. "I spent my twenty-forth birthday with a bunch of eight-year-olds singing happy birthday to me in German," Luke said. He said he spent it hiking with the Boy Scout troop of one of the boys he watched because he didn't know anyone that well yet. I asked Luke what he learned after being a nanny for two boys for a year. "I realized how much of a parent I'm not," he said. "I have a hard enough time taking care of myself. I don't think I could have a dog right now." He told me being a nanny made him reevaluate his immediate future goals as a twenty-something in his generation. "It's a reevaluation of the life that you've been living," he said. "It's like running a race that never ends."
