Post by onceinlovewithamy on Jan 29, 2015 22:03:05 GMT -5
Currently my schedule flip flops between a week of day shift and a week of night shifts. Day shifts are from 5:30a-2:30p Night shifts are 2:30p- 11:30p.
I am also on-call every other weekend and have to work all holidays.
I live about 40 minutes from my office, so on night shift weeks I don't get home until after midnight. I worked at this job all through my first pregnancy and for three years of Hunter's life, but I'm not coming back after this baby is born. As much as I love my job, I don't want to do this schedule anymore. I am very lucky that I have a back up career in real estate to go to, though.
Post by freddyisready on Jan 29, 2015 23:16:03 GMT -5
I work for our state govt, so its a pretty cushy job. I work 7-4:30 M-F, and get every other Friday off. I get holidays off too. I commute about 40 min (with traffic). DH also works in state govt, so we have the same hours and same days off. Except he works at a building 5 mins from our house. I am trying to get a job where he works. We share a car, so that will be a consideration. We will be using daycare and I will be returning to work after 12-16 weeks. We never planned on me being a SAHM, but he has been bringing it up lately. It won't happen for this kid, but possibly for #2.
Post by littlecookie on Jan 29, 2015 23:42:37 GMT -5
I work about 8:30- 5:30 usually with occasional nights weekends from home if I'm busy. i can work from home when needed, but it's not on a schedule. I plan to take 12 weeks and then go back to basically the same schedule. I will probably try to leave closer to 5 and work a bit in the evenings so baby isn't in daycare as long.
@texasmama15 speak up! You'll never get it if you don't ask.
Currently my schedule flip flops between a week of day shift and a week of night shifts. Day shifts are from 5:30a-2:30p Night shifts are 2:30p- 11:30p.
I am also on-call every other weekend and have to work all holidays.
I live about 40 minutes from my office, so on night shift weeks I don't get home until after midnight. I worked at this job all through my first pregnancy and for three years of Hunter's life, but I'm not coming back after this baby is born. As much as I love my job, I don't want to do this schedule anymore. I am very lucky that I have a back up career in real estate to go to, though.
Woof. The rotating schedule thing would be hard for me. I'm glad you have a backup career too!!
Post by radtechgirl on Jan 30, 2015 3:05:32 GMT -5
I work an over night 7/70 position. So I have 37 hours one week and 33 hours the next week. My work week consists of working from 9pm Wednesday night to 7 am Wednesday morning. I end up working every other weekend. We recently had a position open up where I would still be a 7/70 but the hours that I would work would be 8am to 8 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Wenesday would be a 10 hour day from 9 am till 7 pm and the other days would be 9 hours from 10 am till 7 pm. I have worked the over night shift for almost 8 of the 10 years I have been at my job so transferring to days makes me very nervous. I have been so used to working by myself and only have to please 2 physicians compared to the 50 that work during the day. Plus at night there is never any managers, or directors. Not to mention the damn phone ringing off the hook with people asking stupid questions.
I work M-F 8-4:30 unless it's our busy season which is from Oct-March. My schedule is all over the place during that time. DH works 8-5 M-F. I plan on taking 8 weeks maternity and then back to work I go. If I had it my way I wouldn't be going back but that's just not in the cards for us right now. I'm very thankful that my mom has offered to watch our little one during the day.
I work 3-5 12s a week right now (between my full time job and if I pick up hours at my PRN job) but I'm working 7p-7a. With the possibility of DH deploying for 12 months in July and us living halfway across the country from family I definitely won't be able to work nights after LO gets here...and I'll have to have a much more fixed schedule...thinking about how much is going to change is sooo overwhelming...
I'm a community carer, my hours are ALL over the place with shift work, I never do the same hour days. But I do however get every other weekend off. They can be long and hard days, looking forward to April 1st from when I start my maternity leave. I'll be off for 9 months, maybe a full year if I can afford it as from month 9 to 12 we don't get paid anything. I'm from the UK by the way, I know USA maternity is a lot different!
Currently I work every other week as a live-in nanny... Obviously that wouldn't work with a baby of my own, and I will be leaving my job at the end of February. So from February through August I will be home with the baby until I start nursing school in the fall 2015 semester. I'm planning to do as many classes online as I can, and try to pick times (as much as possible) for in-person classes so either me or my husband can be home with baby as much as possible. My MIL will fill in as needed.
Post by purpleroses on Jan 30, 2015 11:25:03 GMT -5
My current situation is pretty ideal for my family's personal needs. DH travels a fair amount for work, so about a year ago, when DS was 10 months old, I teamed up with a small law firm and am attempting to build my own practice there. I get some overflow work from the other attorneys when it's available. This involved a huge pay cut from my prior position, loss of most of the really generous benefits I had there (thankfully we are all able to be on DH's, they just aren't as good), and I don't have a steady or guaranteed income anymore, BUT it has pretty much been the only way we have survived with DH's work travel. I make myself available to clients and other attorneys in my firm from 8:30 am - 6 pm M- F (occasionally I also have to be available outside of those hours), but compared to the position I had at a big law firm when I returned to work from maternity leave, I have a lot more control over my schedule and when work is completed, subject to client demands. At the old job, it was more everything was an emergency (particularly due to the work styles of attorneys who assigned me work) and it would not have been unusual for me to work all day and then have to stay up late finishing projects after DS went to bed. It would have been difficult under any circumstances, but was particularly rough when DH was off on work trips.
On days that I don't have a lot of client work, I invest time in developing new business (writing articles, giving presentations, running down leads, etc.), but it is also nice to be able to run errands and take care of personal stuff as time permits, since that was always a struggle at my old job, even before we had DS. I also work remotely from home most of the time, so that makes life easier (although it gets more challenging as DS gets older). We do have full-time childcare -- I could not attempt to watch him and do legal work simultaneously. I'm very lucky, I know my situation wouldn't be an option for most people, either financially or because it's not the sort of job you could just go out looking for.
I'm pretty happy with my schedule as a teacher. It's not flexible, but the hours work with kids. I teach high school and have a 45 minute commute, so I leave around 6:00. Fortunately we have a daycare that opens at 6:30, so I can drop DS off on my way to work. The best part, is I can leave at 2:30 unless I need to stay later to grade or meet with students. I get lots of time at home with my son (and new baby!) in the afternoon.
The other best part is summers and holidays off My son was due in April and this new one in May, and that was not an accident. We were lucky enough to conceive relatively quickly so we "planned" to have a spring baby and take maternity leave through the summer.
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