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Night shift folks with kids? Thinking of making the move back.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:06 pm
I worked night shift for about 6 years. It was great but slowly migrate to mid shifts and then days. This all hospital setting. All 12 hour shifts, all ER. Took a new job. Straight days, bankers hours so Monday through Friday. No holidays worked and no weekends.
Opportunity now for a 10 hour shift. So I am considering the move. Better traffic being 9p-7a. Home commute 5 days a week sucks ball when 9-5. This accounts for 90 mins a day. It will be shaved to 30-40 mins. Also throw in an extra day a week off.
Basically can anyone sell me on making this move. Never had nights and a kid.
Opportunity now for a 10 hour shift. So I am considering the move. Better traffic being 9p-7a. Home commute 5 days a week sucks ball when 9-5. This accounts for 90 mins a day. It will be shaved to 30-40 mins. Also throw in an extra day a week off.
Basically can anyone sell me on making this move. Never had nights and a kid.
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Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:13 pm to LSU alum wannabe
What type of work is it?
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:14 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
Nursing. But non bedside.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:14 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I think it depends on how much sleep you feel you need, and the actual times.
I've worked some odd shifts for short terms, and it honestly sucks. I either don't get to see my kid at all because I need the sleep and he'll be at daycare, or he'll constantly try to wake me up (he's 2).
Shift work is great for singles who want extra hours and don't need a set schedule daily. With a wife and kid (moreso kid), it would be terrible long term. He'll get used to it, but it takes time away from him. Nothing is worth that time. He'll still have to do his normal routine (school/daycare, etc.), so even those extra days off are not necessarily "make up" time.
ETA: I was under assumption a rotating day/night shift. If straight nights, mich moreso dependent on schedule. But not quite as bad if you sleep short hours.
I've worked some odd shifts for short terms, and it honestly sucks. I either don't get to see my kid at all because I need the sleep and he'll be at daycare, or he'll constantly try to wake me up (he's 2).
Shift work is great for singles who want extra hours and don't need a set schedule daily. With a wife and kid (moreso kid), it would be terrible long term. He'll get used to it, but it takes time away from him. Nothing is worth that time. He'll still have to do his normal routine (school/daycare, etc.), so even those extra days off are not necessarily "make up" time.
ETA: I was under assumption a rotating day/night shift. If straight nights, mich moreso dependent on schedule. But not quite as bad if you sleep short hours.
This post was edited on 1/11/15 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:24 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I saw them for 30 minutes after school, and when I got home I would get them up in the morning for school. It's not great and you will miss a lot of sports and school programs . It's also a strain on the wife .
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:28 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Ask your Father-in-Law, baw.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 1:42 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I think Nurse does this but she doesn't have any kids. Unless she counts her dog.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:05 pm to 13SaintTiger
A 7pm-7a is out of the question. But 9pm? That's 2 extra hours for dinner etc. get home in time to take him to school in the morning. Can pick him up after sleeping?
My routine now is for 9a-5p. Wake up at 06:30, get ready, eat breakfast, leave at 08 to 0815, work at 9, never sure when I will leave, and drive anywhere from 30-60 minutes home. Two hours at home. Then either I or my son are cranky and need to go to bed.
Friday rolls around and eat Mexican food and drink too much because I hate my job. Drink again Saturday. Sit hungover Sunday. Push repeat.
My routine now is for 9a-5p. Wake up at 06:30, get ready, eat breakfast, leave at 08 to 0815, work at 9, never sure when I will leave, and drive anywhere from 30-60 minutes home. Two hours at home. Then either I or my son are cranky and need to go to bed.
Friday rolls around and eat Mexican food and drink too much because I hate my job. Drink again Saturday. Sit hungover Sunday. Push repeat.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:17 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Most of my coworkers have kids and they manage working nights just fine. Course...they do 3 12s so they have 4 days off a week.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:28 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Friday rolls around and eat Mexican food and drink too much because I hate my job. Drink again Saturday. Sit hungover Sunday. Push repeat.
Damn, man.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:31 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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My routine now is for 9a-5p. Wake up at 06:30, get ready, eat breakfast, leave at 08 to 0815, work at 9, never sure when I will leave, and drive anywhere from 30-60 minutes home. Two hours at home. Then either I or my son are cranky and need to go to bed.
You seriously sound like a little bitch. 9-5 is easy, grow a pair you pussy.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:33 pm to lsut2005
9-5 would be rough if you worked 3 12s for several years. I don't think I could be a 9-5r...I like having more days off.
Stories like his are why I try to stay content as a floor nurse, when my coworkers are wishing for 9-5 non patient care nursing jobs. Grass ain't always greener.
Stories like his are why I try to stay content as a floor nurse, when my coworkers are wishing for 9-5 non patient care nursing jobs. Grass ain't always greener.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:35 pm to lsunurse
Are you kidding me? The general population usually works 10-11 per day, 5 days a week. I feel no remorse for you nurses. That's pathetic.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:37 pm to LSU alum wannabe
It honestly just depends on how much you value time spent with your wife and kid? Are the inconveniences of drive time and working days worth your relationships? It puts one hell of a stress on a marriage when wifey is running the entire household solo and Jr never sees his dad.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:49 pm to lsut2005
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Are you kidding me? The general population usually works 10-11 per day, 5 days a week. I feel no remorse for you nurses. That's pathetic.
What the hell are you talking about?
55 hour work weeks are standard? Where?
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:51 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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55 hour work weeks are standard? Where?
The medical field.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:55 pm to RadTiger
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The medical field.
Lol. Where? Management?
Posted on 1/11/15 at 2:56 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Lol. Where? Management?
Those people called doctors. You know the ones working everyday while you take every other day off.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 4:51 pm to RadTiger
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Those people called doctors. You know the ones working everyday while you take every other day off.
You chose that life and "calling".
so quit YOUR bellyaching. quote:
RadTiger
Judging by the name any of those extra hours you speak of are spent in a dark room going blind reading X-rays. Poor you. Change places. Go I.R. And if you are pulling that many hours in interventional you should move. You are in an undermanned shithole.
BTW you could have went ER.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 4:59 pm to lsunurse
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Most of my coworkers have kids and they manage working nights just fine. Course...the
Do any of them have husbands that work nights as well?
Curious because this is going to be a huge issue when/if the wife has a kid. Neither of us want to give up nights.
This post was edited on 1/11/15 at 5:00 pm
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