I’ve worked 2nd (afternoon), swing (evening), and 3rd (overnight) shifts for the majority of my life. I recently moved into a training position where I’m Monday through Friday, 8am to ~5:30pm (I get OT while I’m cleaning up and writing reports).
As much as the 2nd/swing/3rd shifts screw with your life in other ways, the difficulty in scheduling any kind of life services outside of working hours is maddening. Doctor’s appointment? Nope. DMV? Maybe Saturday, if you’re lucky. Chaperone your kids field trip? Hahahhah no.
I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it. How tf are you supposed to get anything done?
Yeah fr, I don’t have a “real job” yet, currently in an internship doing 30hr a week and I’m kind of sick of it. More so, I might be sick of the work and environment itself but during my free time, I just barely have enough time to do all the chores and stuff I want to do (I do a lot of stuff). I feel like if I were to work 40 hrs a week, I would need to time out every minute of my week out.