Worried I wont get up in time for the job

[halfapenny]

Married mum with 3 very small DC. I have the opportunity to work 6-8am at the weekends. The hours are perfect, but I am really worried I won't be able to get up on time for a 6am start and I will oversleep. How can I make sure I get up (if I get the job that is) ?

An early night and lots of alarms.

Set two alarms
very loudly …
do you usually struggle to wake in the mornings?

Could you set an alarm on your phone?

Have your shower the night before,your clothes laid out ready and sandwich made for breakfast, perhaps.

Loud annoying alarm clock other side of the room. But honestly, you should just get up - it’s work - it’s not negotiable. Even more so if the hours are perfect. Why wouldn’t you get up?

I have had to start putting an old fashioned alarm clock on the other side of my son's room to ensure he gets up for school. He got used to just saying "alexa stop" whilst half asleep and bot getting up before
He now has to get out of bed and walk to the other side of the room to turn it off so that works

How much do you need this job?? Because as someone who's busy and probably already tired with 3 small DC, 6-8am on a weekend sounds far from perfect to me...

Do you need to leave the house and be somewhere at 8 or is it homebased?

Work backwards from 8 - how long to get there, how long to have breakfast and deal with kids, how long to get ready.

Then set lots of alarms!!

I currently have multiple alarms on my phone but I turn them off in my sleep. I don't even remember turning most of them off. I think I will need the old fashioned alarm clock on the other side of the room. DH will have to suffer with it when it goes off at 5.20am weekend mornings lol. But he is a heavy sleeper and will easily sleep through thinks like me drying my hair at 7am in the same room as him.

@Bramshott I need to bring in some extra cash, I am at home with the 3 DC all week. The hours are perfect, I can be home by 8.15am and ready to start the day. I bloody love a lie-in but at the same time I feel like I am wasting the day laying in bed (on the times I do get a lie in that is lol). The job is out of the house, would need to leave by 5.35 to get there and be ready to start promptly at 6am.

Either get a Fitbit or similar and use the vibrating alarm function, or one of the phone apps where you have to complete an exercise before it'll turn the alarm off so it makes sure you're properly awake.

Exactly. 👍
It depends how much the job is needed, that's all.

You get up because you either need the job or you don't.

Set an ordinary alarm and also your phone and put them the other side of the room. Slightest change you don't hear them, eventually your OH will wake you to go and switch them off.

I have a fairly early start on Sundays, so I make sure I have a shower as late as possible the night before and have my makeup and clothes ready downstairs so I don't keep others awake.

I do get that, but if your DH is at home at the weekends can you not work more sociable hours whilst he minds the kids?? Because this reads like you are going to compromise your sleep to work super early and then come back and still do everything at home (maybe I'm wrong).

I'm a heavy sleeper who turns alarms off
I set 5 alarms on my phone at 5 min intervals, all with different sounds and I have a back up of a metal alarm clock on the other side of the room