If you work at night (full-time) what do you do?

ShanJosh777

I really want to find a job with hours of 6pm-2am or something like that.  I'm trying to find a way to avoid daycare.  I have to work for insurance... but daycare takes almost half of my pay.  Any suggestions?

lhuttlinger

I worked at Trader joes 6pm-1am. The pay wasn't half bad all things considered, and the benefits are REALLY great. It was a lot of unpacking heavy stuff though.

LipstickLibrarian

You could be a night auditor at a hotel - their hours are usually 10pm to 6am or 11pm to 7am. ?They run the numbers for the day and balance credit cards/cash/etc.

Brewtowngrl

My answer will not help with what type of job, but this is my experience with working 2 shifts and balancing life and kids.   

DH has worked 2nd and 3rd shift.  there is no way we could have avoided daycare with 3rd shift.  You have to sleep sometime.  2nd shift is doable.  DH gets home at 11:30 and then has to unwind and eat dinner.  Gets to bed about 1-1:30 and I let him sleep till 8.  I don't go to my office till about 9.  We still have to do daycare 2 days a week since he starts at 2:30.  I work for myself so we are lucky I can be flexible. 

I think working till 2 would be hard if your DH has to go to work by 8.  You probably would not get to sleep till about 3 or 4 and then have to be up a few hours later.  It is also really hard on a marriage.  There is no time for the two of you.  Sex life is hard to keep up because you are on two different schedules.  I miss DH because I feel like we just pass each other in the house the entire week. 

HellsBelle08

I work for a big auto insurance company, 4:15-12:15am-for the same reasons you listed. It's also really nice being home with DS all day. Just make sure you're ok with long term sleep deprivation, lol! I recently went from f/t to p/t, but I work the same shift, just a couple days less per week. I process no-fault litigation claim paperwork (sounds fascinating, huh?) but there are a lot of night positions here-customer service, sales, telephone claims rep, medical bill processing...if you have any insurance companies around, I'd check their websites for job openings!

HellsBelle08

Brewtowngrl:

My answer will not help with what type of job, but this is my experience with working 2 shifts and balancing life and kids.   

DH has worked 2nd and 3rd shift.  there is no way we could have avoided daycare with 3rd shift.  You have to sleep sometime.  2nd shift is doable.  DH gets home at 11:30 and then has to unwind and eat dinner.  Gets to bed about 1-1:30 and I let him sleep till 8.  I don't go to my office till about 9.  We still have to do daycare 2 days a week since he starts at 2:30.  I work for myself so we are lucky I can be flexible. 

I think working till 2 would be hard if your DH has to go to work by 8.  You probably would not get to sleep till about 3 or 4 and then have to be up a few hours later.  It is also really hard on a marriage.  There is no time for the two of you.  Sex life is hard to keep up because you are on two different schedules.  I miss DH because I feel like we just pass each other in the house the entire week. 

I agree with a lot if this! I missed DH a lot too, and it was after a lot of discussion that we decided I would go part time instead of full, which I'd been doing since DS was 8 weeks old. We're much poorer, but I'm much happier. Split shifts are tough on a relationship for sure.