re: Shift workers.....dealing with family and missing holidays cause you are working

I work shift work and if/when anyone complains when I have to miss something I simply tell them if they want to start paying me the same salary I'd make then I'll gladly skip work.

Doesn't bother me at all to have to miss things, it happens. I'm working to provide for my family and pay bills. I'm happier knowing that I am doing what I have to do to raise my son correctly and provide for him to have a good life and if someone doesn't understand that I don't really care.