FAO anyone who works night shifts please!
firstly, i hate my current job, im a waitress and i did 2 daytimes and 2 evenings a week, but im currently on maternity leave which is due to come to an end in december (january if you add on my holiday entitlement).
anyway, today in my local paper there is an advert for a job in the care home 5mins from my house looking for part time care assistants for night shifts. i rang up to enquire and the hours would be 2 or 3 nights a week 11pm- 7/8am. so my question is do any of you work hours similar to this and if so, do you cope ok?
my son has always been a good sleeper and my baby (4months) now sleeps 6.30pm- 6.30am with a dreamfeed at 10pm so actually doing those hours wouldnt be a problem, and if i stayed in my current job i would have to rely on my mum to provide childcare and even then i wouldnt be able to work any more that 10 hours but if i did this night job then i would. im just concerned that it seems a good idea on paper but would i regret it a few weeks down the line?or does your life improve because you get to see more of your children as you are not giving them to someone else?
advice please, and also could i have an idea of how you plan your days and when you sleep? i was thinking i would go to bed at 7pm for a couple of hours when they do. please feel free to tell me if im insane also! and finally, with regards to be on mat leave, i decided prior to going on it that if the right job with the right hours came along i would sacrifice the last couple of months of it.
sorry to waffle on haha!
sophie
archie (4years next week!)
and phoebe (4months next week!!)
xxxx
anyway, today in my local paper there is an advert for a job in the care home 5mins from my house looking for part time care assistants for night shifts. i rang up to enquire and the hours would be 2 or 3 nights a week 11pm- 7/8am. so my question is do any of you work hours similar to this and if so, do you cope ok?
my son has always been a good sleeper and my baby (4months) now sleeps 6.30pm- 6.30am with a dreamfeed at 10pm so actually doing those hours wouldnt be a problem, and if i stayed in my current job i would have to rely on my mum to provide childcare and even then i wouldnt be able to work any more that 10 hours but if i did this night job then i would. im just concerned that it seems a good idea on paper but would i regret it a few weeks down the line?or does your life improve because you get to see more of your children as you are not giving them to someone else?
advice please, and also could i have an idea of how you plan your days and when you sleep? i was thinking i would go to bed at 7pm for a couple of hours when they do. please feel free to tell me if im insane also! and finally, with regards to be on mat leave, i decided prior to going on it that if the right job with the right hours came along i would sacrifice the last couple of months of it.
sorry to waffle on haha!
sophie
archie (4years next week!)
and phoebe (4months next week!!)
xxxx
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Personally I could never go back to that type of work. But I don't want to put u off if u think u could do it, just wanted to give u my experience of it.
Jxx
There are also symptoms to bear in mind aswell! Alto of my colleagues suffer from irritable legs, which then prevent them from being able to sleep once they do get into bed, others get extremely cold and then there's me who gets extremley nauseous! But each person is different!
Each person I know who do nights ,do so because it fits in best with their families, they don't need to look for and pay for childcare as their partners are at home to look after the children.
However, it's not all bad!! we also have a nice little team going, you spend so long working with these people that you do become quite close to them and build good friendships, we all meet outside of work quite regularly now and have lunch, etc. It can also be rewarding as much as it can be demanding!
that said a lot of my colleuges do 4 nights a week and go home get the kids up washed dressed and off to school then go to bed until school finished, this is however harder with a non school age child unless you have childcare in order to sleep
it doable but really i doubt you would get more childtime as you would need to sleep