Live-OUT caregiver options?

[dankity]

My apologies if this has been posted before; I'm new and can't seem to figure out all my options. Here's the deal:

-US Citizen in Canada on working holiday visa for 1 year (expires in 6 months)
-Studied in Quebec for one semester (2010, likely irrelevant to all of this)
-Live OUT caregiver (nanny); thus ruling out live-in caregiver PR track for the future. It seems my best option right now is to ask my employers for an LMO and try to extend my work permit, but they only interviewed one other person for my position and I'm their first nanny. They did not try particularly hard to hire Canadians before me.
-I am qualified for and would like to apply for Ontario teacher's college which would extend my stay in Canada, but international tuition for one year totals the cost of my entire 4-year BA degree. I cannot afford to go back to school as an international student and double my student loan debt.
-My boyfriend and I have talked about moving in together and declaring common-law partnership, which I understand is grounds for PR sponsorship after 1 year. However, my work permit will expire well before the 1-year mark

What's my best option here? I feel like I'm kind of slipping through the cracks with these immigration options, even though I'm integrated into Canadian society. My life is here, and I will do anything short of becoming a live-in caregiver to stay. I am only 22 and not ready to take on this type of career.

Cheers

 

[scylla]

It's likely going to be challenging for your employers to obtain an approved LMO for a live-out caregiver position since it's not a skilled roll. Your employers will have to advertise your position again, provide proof they advertised the job sufficiently and demonstrate they weren't able to find a Canadian to fill the role among all of the candidates that applied. By all means try, but you should definitely have a plan B in case this one doesn't work out.

Do you qualify to apply for another working holiday visa? That would be one option.

You could look for a different employer who is willing to offer you a skilled job and can obtain an approved LMO.

The last option I can think of would be to marry your boyfriend now and have him sponsor you through family class.