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Oct. 20th, 2017 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckCordelia got home about 1 a.m. I think she enjoyed the concert (Imagine Dragons) in spite of several anxiety spikes. It means that she and I each only got about three and a half hours of sleep. I let her go to bed without even brushing her teeth. My impression is that they'd have been back here a good bit earlier, but they got stuck in the parking structure for more than half an hour after the concert.
I went back to bed after Cordelia left for school. I slept another three or four hours (not sure when I actually fell asleep). I still want more sleep, but Cordelia will be home in an hour.
Rumors where Scott works are that there may be an opening for a supervisor on third shift. If there is, he wants to apply and thinks he has a good chance of getting it. Both of us have mixed feelings about it, but getting a supervisory slot on either second or third shift is the only path to advancement from where he is. The times he's applied for jobs off the factory floor, the decision has always come down to him and one other person who has supervisory experience. Even when supervisory experience isn't relevant for the position, it matters. The fact that supervisors make more money matters, too, but they get more mandatory overtime to go with it because there has to be a supervisor there if anybody's working.
It would mean that he and I would never sleep at the same time and that he'd no longer see Cordelia for that little bit of time before school (he never used to when she was getting up for a later start time). Another downside is that he and I wouldn't intersect for meals very often-- I'd eat breakfast before he got home and both lunch and dinner while he was asleep. I'd need to alter my daytime activities a lot so as not to wake him when playing music or watching DVDs. He thinks that I can do more than I did while he was on that shift temporarily, but we'd have to experiment a bit to find the parameters.
He did tend to get more sleep when he was (temporarily) on third shift and so would be more awake/energetic in the evenings, and it meant being able to deal with his medical appointments without taking time off.
I went back to bed after Cordelia left for school. I slept another three or four hours (not sure when I actually fell asleep). I still want more sleep, but Cordelia will be home in an hour.
Rumors where Scott works are that there may be an opening for a supervisor on third shift. If there is, he wants to apply and thinks he has a good chance of getting it. Both of us have mixed feelings about it, but getting a supervisory slot on either second or third shift is the only path to advancement from where he is. The times he's applied for jobs off the factory floor, the decision has always come down to him and one other person who has supervisory experience. Even when supervisory experience isn't relevant for the position, it matters. The fact that supervisors make more money matters, too, but they get more mandatory overtime to go with it because there has to be a supervisor there if anybody's working.
It would mean that he and I would never sleep at the same time and that he'd no longer see Cordelia for that little bit of time before school (he never used to when she was getting up for a later start time). Another downside is that he and I wouldn't intersect for meals very often-- I'd eat breakfast before he got home and both lunch and dinner while he was asleep. I'd need to alter my daytime activities a lot so as not to wake him when playing music or watching DVDs. He thinks that I can do more than I did while he was on that shift temporarily, but we'd have to experiment a bit to find the parameters.
He did tend to get more sleep when he was (temporarily) on third shift and so would be more awake/energetic in the evenings, and it meant being able to deal with his medical appointments without taking time off.
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Date: 2017-10-20 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-20 07:55 pm (UTC)When he's trying to get his main sleep in during that time, I feel that I shouldn't wander in and out the way I would if he were at work or even just not sleeping and can't take my phone in with me because, if Cordelia texts, it will wake both of us. She generally only texts during lunch (10:30-11:00) when she has time to start to panic or at other times when she's very stressed. I don't want to let those wait for a response.
If he's working third shift, Scott will get home at 8:00 a.m., about an hour after Cordelia leaves for school, and sleep from about 9:00 a.m. to about 5:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m.
I think, too, that him needing to leave for work at 10:00 p.m. would make me going to bed at 9:00 much, much harder to do because it's so close to when he needs to leave that staying up just a little longer to see him off will seem desirable.
Maybe this rumored position won't materialize. One of the supervisors on second shift has given two weeks notice. That's definite. The rumor is that one of the third shift supervisors wants that position (if so, it would be a done deal because getting supervisors for second shift is very, very difficult).
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Date: 2017-10-20 09:41 pm (UTC)Giving up TV and music in the daytime will be hard. I don't suppose he can sleep with earplugs? That is what I ended up doing when I worked night shift. It wasn't my husband waking me--he was at work--it was traffic noise and the damned car alarms going off in the parking garage across from our apartment.
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Date: 2017-10-24 03:29 pm (UTC)Scott thinks that I can still watch TV and play music. We'll just have to work out what volume is acceptable.