Question about your husband's work schedule

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  • Angebor
  on Oct. 29, 2009 at 2:15 PM

• Many many moons ago, my husband worked the 'graceyard' shift.

  He was often home in time to see the younger of the kids off to school.  He would also spend time with them in the afternoon when they came home and could eat dinner with us.  He slept about 4 hours in the morning/early afternoon and about 2 to 3 hours before getting ready for work.  then we spent weekends together as a family.

  It worked for the couple of years he had to do it.

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  • la_bella_vita
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 8:49 PM

• My husband has always worked from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's a really great schedule. I hope everything works out! 

     Happily married to my high school sweetheart, soul mate and best friend & Proud mommy of a beautiful princess and handsome little toddler prince!

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  • TRUEBLUEWIFE
  on Nov. 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM

• I am answering this because I work  3pm-1pm and it is so hard because you miss spending time with the children. I also used to work the 11pm-7am shift many years back. The graveyard shift was very exhausting because you get split sleep and after a while your body starts to feel it.  I try to get at least 1 weekend day off so that I can spend the whole day with our family.  God bless and good luck. Right now jobs are few so I have to stay with what I have in order for us to have income. If I had a choice between 3-11 or 11-7 I would stay with the the 3-11. I would love a 9-5 job but, none available.

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  • Jennibug
  on Nov. 7, 2009 at 1:34 AM

• We've never done the weird shifts, but my dh is a wildland firefighter. He is stationed 2 hours away from home 6-9 months out of the year. Juggling wacky schedules always poses special challenges. How do we make family time? How do we split responsibility. How does it effect the discipline of our children? How do we make time for each other?

  The important thing is that you weigh out your priorities. Yes. Hubby needs to provide for the family, but he also needs to be there for them. During fire season, there are often weeks between seeing each other, but we just make it special when we do have time together. So if you have weekends, make the best of them, and be sure to set some time aside for just the two of you. If you have to, get up early so that you can have breakfast together in the mornings. Or adjust dinner time accordingly. Every family does it differently. The important thing is to be on the same page.

  Best wishes.
  

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