NJD: Going from shifts to office hours.

[juansolo]

I did the same thing you did. Worked shifts all my life then changed job to a 9-5 (well 8-4). It's weird... Everything is busy, you're aware that there are people around considered to be important who are at best clueless or at worst $%&#ing idiots (and your bosses). You seem to have no holidays and weekends will seem incredibly short. On top of that you'll have a shiteeload less money and outside work will now seem really crowded with all the other plebs trying to get stuff done on evenings and weekends.

Shifts have a lot going for them. However I just got to the stage where I was starting to struggle with them and I wanted to take my career somewhere else. Took a massive pay cut and went for it. Worked for a good while too netting me a job I enjoyed and eventually a lot more money than the shift work.

Then the management changed and it went to shitee. C'est la vie.

In other words, who knows? But you'll never know if you don't try.

[_tom_]

Oli, I know ADI up in Preston are hiring broadcast technicians, I've applied for the junior position!

I work shifts at the minute and not really happy with them. Good when they work in your favour and free time in the week is nice, but more often than not they ruin your social life!

[Dmoney]

Urgh Preston.
What about Media City in Salford (not that salford is nice but at least its close to manchester which is nicer than preston). There usually engineering jobs in London. Globecast, Discovery Channel, Arqiva, BBC. I generally look on Caspian One, Christy Media, Venator Recruitment, Grapevine Jobs.

What I've learned though, is that most companies are garbage past the 'shop floor' level, so you're unlikely to be able to do a good job at any of these places let alone make any changes to help yourself do a better job. These people should be telling YOU why you should sell your time to THEM. Scumbags.

[Lew]

What I'm going to miss the most is the week days off where I can get appointments/shopping etc done without any problem and have three full days off in a row, that's gonna hurt. As it is I can pretty much have a run of 8days off every 7/8 weeks which is nice. Working 9-9 is no fun when you have a few days to run, you just work, eat and sleep, looking at Facebook when I'm on the loo feels like a treat  :lol:

On the other hand I'm finishing at 3.30 with the new job and the work is 5mins from town so plenty of time to get stuff done. I'm at the top of my tree where I am and the literally is nowhere to go and I'm sick of my job.

Something I thought was really positive with the new job is that people have been working there 10+years where as 12mths where I am now and you're considered a veteran. Oh, yea and I'll be able to get sick pay, which would have been nice last year when I had to have a forced 4 weeks off unpaid due to a collapsed lung.

Time will tell!

[juansolo]

Oli, I know ADI up in Preston are hiring broadcast technicians, I've applied for the junior position!

I work shifts at the minute and not really happy with them. Good when they work in your favour and free time in the week is nice, but more often than not they ruin your social life!

Which is why you tend to socialise with your shift. If you get a bad one it can be pretty bad. With a good group it can be brilliant.

[Dmoney]

Oli, I know ADI up in Preston are hiring broadcast technicians, I've applied for the junior position!

I work shifts at the minute and not really happy with them. Good when they work in your favour and free time in the week is nice, but more often than not they ruin your social life!

Which is why you tend to socialise with your shift. If you get a bad one it can be pretty bad. With a good group it can be brilliant.

I'm luckily enough to be on shift with good people. It's the main thing that keeps me here, that and the fact I probably couldn't get a job anywhere else. I've done 9-5 though with people I didn't like and that was RUBBISH and I still didn't socialise that much outside of work either.

[_tom_]

We don't actually have shift teams, we have no set pattern just rostered on as and when they want us over a monthly roster.  Makes it really hard/annoying to plan anything in advance as you have to always check with the supervisors and book time off over a month in advance!