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?
only if you WFH
Eh that makes it a complete solution, but there’s a lot of daily tedium that can be knocked out with a cell phone, and in some cases dipping out to swing by whatever shop/service is viable
Not that I’m suggesting it’s easy or that corpo culture isn’t broken. Just my personal best answer
what about stuff like cooking, cleaning, laundry? Also in-person appointments like doctor, dentist, vets (if you have pets), car maintenance, etc? Banking and scheduling these appts you can do completely remotely but everything else requires being in-person
It doesn’t take that much longer to cook multiple meals than it does just one. So do that and use your microwave oven.
Laundry is easy, program your machine to be done just about when you get back from work.
Cleaning is a non issue if you clean as you go. It should not take a significant amount of your free time. A robovacuum helps.
We live in a world of automation. Use it to make your life better.
Cooking, cleaning, etc has always been on people’s own time. For appointments and errands they try to use their lunch hour or request off-time, go in extra early and leave early, whatever - depends on the job. One of the benefits of most WFH jobs is being able to schedule your own time.
I don’t WFH, not anymore, so now I chore remotely