Routine Hours, or does it matter?

You get up around the same time if not earlier then me. I don't work as I got laid off and am lazy about finding another job, honest as I am. I do try to get on here on a set schedule though I am enjoying just being able to get on whenever I can. My last job was routine, but others before that weren't so much routine... I think I had two jobs before that were almost routine, and I enjoyed that.

I love to be able to change my schedule like that (snaps fingers). I've worked two jobs at one time, but three? well i'd love to be able to pull it off if I could.

Ya, and my schedule changes without notice depending on my mood. I worked three jobs for awhile back in the 80's.

At the time I was so happy to have a job that I didn't hate, it wasn't as big of a deal as it might have been otherwise.

I don't handle stress to well so if I were to have to do that work I don't know that I could. I am sure the pay was good, but just the fact of never knowing when you went in? I know I couldn't do it. I much prefer routine myself, even if it is forty to fifty hours a week, atleast I know what I'd be working.

You are pretty in touch with the reality of what you need, though. Hubby just recently applied for a different job, in a field he really loves, and that may have some bearing on what I do. Right now I have a temporary job that pays okay, but I have to travel. There is a good expense payment and the work is not difficult. I may have a second week, or I may not. The money will come in handy, pay off some things maybe and if I get a second week maybe get some of the other things I want.

The bad thing about wanting to work routine hours is that it seems most of the places you can work a routine shift are either places you don't want to work, or places that don't pay that much. I do much better with routine. It's not so much that I can schedule around it, as much as it is that my stress levels are a lot lower. I don't take to stress well, usually it burns me out and I end up quitting... atleast that is what has happened in the past. My online stuff isn't secure, and well you know if you can't claim the money it doesn't help with getting loans and stuff like that either. I really need to get a job but right now I am waiting to see if my husband can get on third shift, if he can get on third then I will try to get on third at the same place he works, or at a grocery store where I can do maintenance. Right now we're not doing bad but we can't get very far without me having a job, we just pay the bills and that's it, no room to save.

yes here we can lol. and yup I usually worked in manufactoring and they have set shifts to work

Oh so you were able to know exactly when you had to go in and what days, even if you weren't sure whether you would have to stay over or not. I think that's atleast good compared to just not knowing when exactly you will work. I think a lot of places would have more productive people if they could figure out when the person prefers to come in and leave... sure that's not as easy as it seems, but I am sure it's almost possible if people would just work together. hehe here at mylot we can come in and leave whenever, even work over time!

Could you explain flexi time? I'm almost certain I've heard of it. I don't have a job anymore, though my last one was the same hours, Monday through Friday. I really enjoyed it a lot more to be quite honest, then any of the jobs I worked in the past. My husband has different hours, one day he might work the morning, but the next he might work the evening. He's trying to get a set schedule, and it looks good that he'll get it. Hopefully you're BF will be able to get the same, and in that way it will be easier to plan things. With me not working, it's just his schedule we have to work around, so that is really more beneficial.

Flexitime is where you really don't have an exact time to be at the office, the important thing is you clock for 8 hours a day.. I usually go to office early in the morning to avoid traffic, but it doesn't count, so I still stay until 5:30 and that means I clock more than 10 hours each day.. I do hope they would adjust it, so I can also go home early... My boyfriend is actually looking for a job with a regular schedule, I guess he's getting tired of the night shift, and different offs every week.

Do you work routine hours now or are you stuck with uncertain hours and not knowing what to do about planning around them?

I'm a caterer, and opened a cafetaria at school. So it's definitely routine thing for me, to woke up around 3 in the morning, and got home after lunch hour...

I am very glad that you will be starting a job that will be better suited for what we both want. Now if I could get a job closeby to you and on the same shift or one very close to it, then that would be great. Especially if I could get a job at the place that I would like to because then we could also bring home something to eat for in the morning, maybe not all the time but it would be great every once in awhile.

If every few weeks the schedule was different I don't think I'd mind it. Say like Two weeks working days, and the next two working nights, that wouldn't be so bad.. but it's when your working nights one day and mornings the next... Well my husband has to do that now, I don't know that I ever did, but I know I just couldn't... It'd be too hard on me. I get stressed way too easily... I guess it wouldn't be so bad if I was able to have fun.

I like to have mine routine as well. Having to constantly look at the schedule to know when your going to be scheduled to work is a hassle. I have worked at some jobs where the hours were pretty much the same, but the days off we're different. I'd like to have a job wherein I could go in and work the same hours, and be off the same days. Not a factory job, but maybe a nice job at say a grocery store or something like that. I'd be willing to work the Three to Eleven shift, those were fun.

My husband and I are not yet ready for children, but I know from working with mother's it is very hard to figure out when exactly to work. I know when I have children I would much rather stay at home if at all possible but we've also got my husband's mother to watch the children when we do have them, just in case I do need to work more.

I love to work a set schedule, not so much for personal time and family errands as well as family time, but just because I am much better with a set schedule.

I can see how that would be so. I would only be concerned about my time consistency thinking of my family.

I'd love to have regular hours. Right now I don't work, but when I do get a job I'd love it if I could put down that I would work such and such hours. When I fill out an application I put "any to any" on the available slots as I desperately want the job and they want a flexible worker.

I like spontaneity, but spontaneity in the workplace stresses me out. I'd rather be spontaneous when it comes to having fun. Like say just spontaneously decide to go shopping, or spontaneously decide to go on a nice drive. Spontaneity in the workplace has gotten me so stressed, I've quit. I envy you that your able to be spontaneous in the work place, you probably go a long way in your line of work because of it.

There is always the possibility of just calling the doctor, making an appointment for two to three weeks later, and then asking for that day off or to go in later then the appointment, but even that can become too much of a hassle when you have to work with the dentist, and then who is to say that you'll get the day off? Yes a regular schedule, or even third shift is much more preferred then having to figure out just when you can fit in an appointment. Back when i was in school I hated going to school when I had an appointment unless I was able to go in later... but even then... Well in any case I refer to back in school because I can't think of a time I've had to go to the doctor on a day I worked, lol.

So it was flexible, even if you weren't sure when or how long you had to work? Well that is good, I would prefer to have a job wherein I could go home and get things done, or the future children off to school if need be, and picked up etc.

It is more then just planning for me, it's also my level of stress. I don't take to stress very well, but I guess the better thing to say is "Who does?" right? Well I've worked jobs where I've had pretty much a routine, even if I didn't know what days I was off, I knew my hours. I worked Three To Eleven at one job I've had before, and it was nice... By 10 it'd die down, so I was pretty much doing nada for an hour.

So you would rather work the routine hours so you know what's going on and as to eliminate as much stress as possible? I am not very good at all with stress, and would much prefer staying home to working sometimes, but other times I honestly do miss working.