Turning down a job as I would be working weekends?

[bridgeovercrap]

It means I would be working 6 out of 10 Saturdays and 2 sundays in 10 weeks.
I've never ever worked weekends and tbh the thought of no social life makes me miserable.
The only good thing about it is I would be around £650 better off a month.
Is it worth it for lack of social life?
I honestly don't know what to do.
What would you do ?

How much of a social life can you have on £100?
It's not every weekend and it's £650 extra, I can't see there's much of a dilemma here tbh?

I would take it, you can keep looking for a different role.

Not like there is much going out at the moment tbh 🤷🏽‍♀️

What do you usually do on weekends? I think that's the big question. If it would seriously affect your homelife and relationships, then it may not be worth it. But if you think about it, and turns out you don't spend every weekend socialising or making the most of it (that you can't do on other days) it may be worth thinking about it.

Maybe try it for a while? It does tie you but I guess you have mid week free. It might lead to another job at some point if you wanted to change

I work Saturdays at the moment and absolutely hate it. However if I was £650 a month better off I wouldn't mind so much.
It does impact on family time though as older children are at school and husband is at work M-F.
I wouldn't turn it down just because of your social life though. It's not like you can go out and do anything.

@bridgeovercrap

I currently have no kids. If I work the weekend I get two days off in the week. If I decide to do 1 day 12 hour shift I will get 3 days off in the week. I will end up with about 3 full weekends off every 10 weeks

This actually sounds really good!

a) there is no social life at the moment.
b) that's a lot of extra money.
c) days off during the week are great.
d) you could take the job, save the money and then when the world vaguely resembles normal again, look for another job without weekend working, start building up a social life and more entertaining activities with all the extra money you've saved up. You will miss the days off during the week, though.

Working weekends doesn’t mean you have no social life How odd. It’s no different to working any other day; there’s nothing “special” about a weekend.

I did, also a job that required evenings once or twice a week. My reasoning is I moved across the country to be with my dp, we want to spend time together!

This is an absolute no brainer at the moment, you can’t socialise anyway!

With the added information in your updates, I think you'd be bonkers not to take the job.

From your title - I'd assumed it would be all weekend, every weekend, but reading your OP that you would only work 2 x Sunday and you'd still get 2/5 of your Saturdays off, it seems a no brainer.

Can't see why you would even consider not taking it, with the difference it would make to your finances

Take it.

unless you're one of those people who has been going to illegal raves for the past few weeks.

In which case we can't help you...

You'd be mad not to take it.
You'll have annual leave if there's something special you want to do.
7 years of shift work here.
You don't not have a social life because of working, you just have to be a bit more organised!

Do it, it somes like you get quite a generous amount of weekdays off & much better money. It's pretty handy having random weekdays off & most weekends you could still go out in the evening as well. I used to work weekends where you ended up doing 12 days in a row - that I would definitely not recommend, but just having your 'weekend' on different days is no problem.

Take it. It won't be forever, and it's a step up.

You will be able to do a lot more on an extra £650 and it will probably be a stepping stone to something better.

Take the job 🌺

I'm an ITU/Critical Care Sister and I've worked weekends and bank holidays for the last 20 years but I've come to the end of all that now. I want to enjoy my weekends and look forward to sitting down and eating Christmas dinner with the rest of my family. If you need the money and your partner/family doesn't mind you not being there at the weekend then go for it but if you're used to a regular social life then forget it. Well that's my experience.

Yeah I'm going to take it.
There is always the option of swapping shifts too.
Like you say it's not like we can do much at the min anyway.
Plus even if I was working till 5 or even 6 I could still go out after couldn't I.
I really can't enjoy my life with £100 a month (I don't want to sound shallow but I enjoy trips away ,concerts etc and you can't do that on £100)
So your right it's a no brainier

Ignoring the fact that nobody has a social life right now, how does working some weekends equate to no social life? There are 7 days in a week, and in normal times pretty much everything "social" is open all 7 of them. And you aren't working every weekend day. Lots of people have jobs where they work weekends and they aren't hermits.

Bonuses I found were: hairdressers quieter and more enjoyable, more deals on things like spa days, discounts at some beauty salons, lengthy brunches without being rushed out of restaurants, cheap mid week nights away, quiet Christmas shopping, days home alone mid week to do what the hell you want!

£100 per month does not give you much of a social life anyway. No idea of your age, but with those hours you will still get evenings out most of the time.

I wouldn't do it. I changed jobs because I didn't want to work weekends any more. I found it really tiring. It might be different with days off during the week though.

I would bite my hand off for that. It’s not every weekend.

It depends on your circumstances. So impossible to say.

@whiteroseredrose

I wouldn't do it. I changed jobs because I didn't want to work weekends any more. I found it really tiring. It might be different with days off during the week though.

Since working at the weekend for the first time in his life, DP is actively looking for shift work, as whilst it's nice for us both to be off at once, it's also nice for a) me to have the house to myself occasionally and b) for him to be around when I have to be off because I'm term time only.