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Lifestyle flip without notice. Ugh.
So my boss approached me this summer about moving into our outpatient program. It's MUCH less stressful than working inpatient at the hospital and I would be launching a satellite office right by my house in Hays County but the catch would be that I would have to move to evenings for the time being. I would have the option to move back to days when we had enough patients to start more morning groups but that could be as much as a year away. DH and I discussed it and since the stress was so much less it was worth it to us. Plus, at the time, we had hoped to have a baby soon so me working evenings would take care of childcare issues. We would do the swap when he got home. Evenings consist of 6-9pm group, notes from home from a laptop and patient assessments would be scheduled likely at 4:30 every day. DH would arrange to get off work by 4 by going in early. Everything else would be done from my home from my work computer and cell.
I agreed to it and he filled my inpatient position, put me in training during the days and all of my hours have stayed the same so far just less stress. The Hays County office kept getting postponed when it would open which gave me more time in my current day job. I was done training and taking over a group and doing patient assessments. Well, the open date for Hays is pretty much set finally around March. Until then I was just going to continue with what I've been doing. My boss just called me and asked me to go ahead and start working evenings tomorrow so that they can start a breakout group in the evenings at the Central Austin office to alleviate the wait list. TOMORROW. I told him I had to talk to DH and think about childcare, etc. I called him back and told him I couldn't start tomorrow but could start Thursday but only if they were ok with me coming in at 5:30 instead of 4:30 which would mean no patient assessments. I told him the reason was that it's an hour drive and I don't have childcare for my son until DH gets off work at 5 so I'd have to drop him off at DH's work at 5 and come straight to work to start the group. I told him I'd be willing to do some admin stuff from home of course but that I simply couldn't manage otherwise. He agreed to it. But AHH. I've been mentally preparing myself for working evenings but wasn't prepared to do so until March, mentally. That's no time with DH Mon-Thurs. It's just different. In the long run I guess it's good since we're hoping to get our house on the market soon so it'd be good for me to be home to be able to straighten up and get the animals out of the house when the realtor calls and wants to show it and I have an intern starting with me in a couple weeks that was counting on me working evenings by the time she started (she interviewed way back when). But ugh. Can't ya give a girl a little notice? I know by me being flexible it'll help my bosses and help me in the long run. I guess I'm just a little in shock. DH said we'd simply manage and for me to do what I thought was best. Sadly, that means no more book club. I can't go tonight either because I simply need to be home with DH and DSS since it's all a big change for them too. Just needed to get that off my chest.
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Re: Lifestyle flip without notice. Ugh.
You've been on my mind all weekend. I was trying to send you good vibes, although I didn't know what for. Maybe it was this big change. I'll miss seeing you at book club, but I'm sure the stress relief is more than worth it.
That long without spending time with DH is going to be rough, but you'll also have the chance to go to lunch with him more maybe. We have scheduled a "sit down and watch tv together" time on Tuesday evenings (when he's in town), because sadly, that's the only night we really get to relax together. We've both adjusted, but it does kind of stink.