Not at all! I used to be the same when I had an office-y type holiday job at school.
See, the advantage (disadvantage?) of work that's basically more or less shift-based is that leaving-for-work-time becomes utterly irrelevant. I'm often coming home after night shift just as other people (nine-to-fivers) are leaving for work. I for one don't know how or when they get the time to go to the bank etc. if they're working five days with those hours (though I guess a designated lunch period goes a ways towards covering that). You've got a teacher's hours; how on earth do you manage all the Real Life things?
It SUCKS, that's how you do it. If you're lucky, you get to them on Saturday - otherwise you have to rush to get there. :( Take the post office for example - I'm getting a package I have to sign for. The person who does this street comes BEFORE NOON. Say, WHAT? How am I supposed to be here that early? I'm scheduling the redelivery for Saturday - hopefully that works....
Good luck! (Frankly, I tend to ring 'em and tell 'em I'll pick it up at the depot at a time that suits me, if they're going to be beetling around waking me up when I'm on a run of nights.)
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Date: 2009-05-12 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-12 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-14 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-13 06:24 am (UTC)I used to be the same when I had an office-y type holiday job at school.
See, the advantage (disadvantage?) of work that's basically more or less shift-based is that leaving-for-work-time becomes utterly irrelevant. I'm often coming home after night shift just as other people (nine-to-fivers) are leaving for work. I for one don't know how or when they get the time to go to the bank etc. if they're working five days with those hours (though I guess a designated lunch period goes a ways towards covering that). You've got a teacher's hours; how on earth do you manage all the Real Life things?
Glad to hear that life's treating you well,
Nik.
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-16 02:31 pm (UTC)