While a few months back there was speculation that Nick was hiring a second employee as a driver, I believe it later came to be known that "the driver" he refers to is also the young 20s nanny.
It has never been clear, but I do believe that she is the same person. Nick co stantly complains that the driver is not available sometimes, and that is why he has to play chauffeur.
I am not sure I believe it, but he is in rural MN, so it is a possibility he has a hard time finding a 9-5 on-call. I am certain he could have paid for it if he properly re-invested Rittenhouse and Depp monies, but I am not sure he can afford it now.
Also, Nick sucks at hiring people in general, o it could be pure laziness.
It's fairly clear by implication that when Nick refers to "helping Kayla with the kids", he is exclusively referring to being chauffeur to the batshit insanely organized homeschool co-op itinerary. A schedule that runs from dawn until past midnight and supposedly impedes your average nuclear family participants to have even single adult member employed FT.
From what I have pieced together rof his schedule, he takes his kids to activities 45 minutes away that run from early afternoon to 7 or 9 PM local, 3 days a week. There is also an early AM thing for thr oldest, and weekends woth church and religious classes.
They have co-op in the AM on a few days, and some of those overlap with the above activities.
Some of the activities are 2-3 hours apart and create 4-5 hour blocks for 90-120 minutes of actual activity time. It is a combination of overscheduling, drive time, and bad coordination between events. Add in his trips to Minneapolis to go to bars aggressively monogamously with his wife, and the man has little time, but a lot of that is just poor planning.
I'd buy that Dick is laundering drug money for Riley before I'd believe that people give him 20K a month to tell the same tired stories about George Ouzounian again and again.
Discovering that Dick's Patreon is a money laundering scam and he does not liflve the Uber hedonist lifestyle off his shows support might just drive Nick to suicide with the stark disillusionment.
He is trying so hard to get to the same place in life.