usually DH flies out at 6am Monday morning and flies in 8pm Friday night. when away they work 14 hour days, ok apparently because there isn't much to do on site.
atm, with bubs due soon he's working 45 mins away in city. leaves about 5:30 and home around 6:30 m-f and a few hours on weekend from home. its much nicer to have him around for bedtimes!
My DH usually leaves at around 7:30-8am unless he is travelling interstate and then he will leave it 5-6am. He will usually get back home 7:30pm-8pm and if he is travelling it can be the same time or later to 9pm. He has weekends off (his old jobs he used to have to don weekend work, so grateful that apart from the odd occasion he doesn't work weekends). He gets 4 weeks annual leave per year.
DP starts at 4.30am and can be home from 4pm onwards... (7-8pm). He is meant to work mon till fri but if they have a few late shifts he gets Fridays off. Sometimes asked to work sat but he turns them down and i don't blame him really considering he only gets about 5hrs sleep a night.
DH works six weeks overseas then two weeks back at home. what can I say but it sux and the money in my opinion doesnt make up for it and he is missing out on the kids. just having a bad day folks.
we are extremely lucky because DP just works tues-fri 9-5. he only works a 5 min drive away & can make it home for lunch most days. he tends to leave pretty much right on 9 & is home around 5.30. it does mean less money but we're happy with it for the sake of having time together. it also meant that when i was offered some part time work, i could work mondays without needing to find someone to look after DS. once the new baby is about 6 months old, i'm hoping to do a days work a week from home & then move back to the office on a monday so we're covering the full work week between us!
DH works 6am till usually around 3-5pm Mon-Fri, whenever the last job is done. He also has the option to work Sat or sun usually 6:30-12pm He is a truck driver
At this stage DF works Mon-Fri. He leaves at either 5:45am or 6:30am depending if he is going to the gym before work or not, and gets home at either 3:45pm or 4:30pm, again depending on if he he is going to the gym after work.
We're hoping that he'll soon be going to 4 days on, 4 days off, 12 hour shifts. Will mean a significant pay rise, but will also mean he's home half the time which is a big part of why he took the job in the first place
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