Was employed to do Shift = 7 days 12 hours, 7 off, 7 nights 12 hours, 7 off. 6am until 6pm or 6pm until 6am with 45mins drive time each way.
Currently works Mon-Fri. Leaves home at 6.30 gets home at 5.30. Works about 30 mins each night from home. Each week does at least one 10/12 hour stint as required. Spends approx one night each month away. This month it's the 14th (LOL).
His pay rate is good, but if you averaged it on hours worked, it's pretty crappy!
At the moment it's pretty horrid, he works odd days, any day of the week. He can start work anywhere from 6am, and finish as late as 4.30am. He can work 8-12hr shifts. He's been working alot of arvo/night shifts, which are either 3.30pm-12am or 6pm until 2.30 or 4.30pm. Day shifts are rare, maybe three a fortnight, and are usually 6.30am-3pm. He gets his roster a week in advance, if he's lucky (his boss is terrible at doing it) for 6 weeks, subject to change. He's on call 24/7, and will get at least one call out a fortnight. Days off are unpredictable, usually 1-2 in a row, never more than 3, unless it involves some sort of leave. He's also working alot of weekends. We can't guarentee if he will have a weekend off (although, luckily, at the moment it doesn't matter, because I am not working and the kids aren't at school).
DH works Monday through Friday 7am to anywhere to 5-6pm. Leaves about 6:45am and is usually home by 6pm. Back when DS1 was a baby he did a lot more overtime of a week night. He also works Saturdays 7am through to anywhere from 12pm. Saturdays can be flexible, if we have something on he is able to get the day off but a Saturday make a big difference to the pay packet.
DH is a builder - leaves at around 6:15 for a 7 o'clock start and home by around 4:45 after a 3:30 ish pack up/finish. If he is site managing as he will be soon that can mean slightly later nights as he has to wait til all tradies leave so roughly 5-5:30. No weekends, all public holidays off, flexibility with taking time off when he wants but being a subby also means that he doesn't get paid for that time off!
With his mine work it's a 4 on, 4 off roster of day and night shift. So on Sunday he will start day shift, leave at 4.30am and get home at 7.30pm. Then he will have 4 days home so he will do his farm work and that can be around 8 am to whenever he's done enough for the day. When he's on nightshift he will levae home at 4.30pm and get home at 7.30am. It works out that he's only working his mine job 6 months of the year really, which is pretty good.
He works wednesday to monday, tuesday and wednesday are his days off usually. Always leaves home at 10am, then usually he will get home somewhere between 10pm and 1am, depending on what was on. He works every public holiday, every weekend. And quite often he will do a breakfast shift or two every week, so leaves home at 5:30am, will come home for an hr round 10:30-11am, then back to work til close.
We're about 10min drive from his work as well
Monday to friday leaves without fail no later than 7:30am, earliest ever home say 7pm, probably fifty percent of the time not home until say nine. Last night it was 1am.
Does probably an additional 10+ hours a week from home at night and weekends.
We live close to the city but it still is a 40-60 minute trip.
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