Young children and Police

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BananasinPyhamas · 29/03/2023 17:06

I've been offered a job as a police controller

12 hour shifts given out well in advance

6 days on 4 days off, can swap shifts with others if needed

Husband works mon to Fri 9-5 but can have some flexibility

We have a 2 year old and 7 year old

Is this doable? I guess lots of you are nurses/police etc etc and work long shifts. Do you need the other parents to be a SAHP?

YABU it won't work
YANBU you can do it

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DaphneDeloresMoorhead2 · 30/03/2023 22:43

I don't think I've clarified my shift pattern actually...

2 earlies
2 lates
2 nights
4 days off

i know other forces do different patterns but I think the majority follow a version of the above on a 6 on 4 off.

ancientgran · 30/03/2023 23:14

BananasinPyhamas · 30/03/2023 21:43

Thank you so much particularly @DaphneDeloresMoorhead2 your posts are invaluable thank you for delurking.

I've never done anything like this before, I've always worked very 9-5 Monday to Friday and hybrid/wfh jobs. This would be a huge change and I'm fearful of the commitment but i do feel its sort of my calling and its a job I've inexplicably always wanted to do. But its niggling me how would my young kids cope without me over whole weekends at work for example (they'd be fine, their dad is here and capable but in my head they'd be desperately missing me). The commute is 20 mins (on a good day) each way.

Is there scope to do overtime generally?

Are you giving up a job to do this? If not what have you got to lose, if it doesn't work out for you then you just leave and find something else. If you are working now how do you feel about leaving your job and this not working out? I think changing jobs is always a gamble, you just have to work out the odds and decide if it worth it.

For what it's worth I loved my job and I left for a higher paying job and regretted it.

ancientgran · 30/03/2023 23:14

That wasn't very clear. I meant I loved my police job and regretted leaving it, I felt after nearly 20 years I was ready for something else but it was a bad decision.

Kedece2410 · 31/03/2023 18:09

Is there scope to do overtime generally

Where I am it comes in phases. There's either loads or none so its not something you can depend on. Honestly though the shifts are long enough without overtime and personally I don't do any

*I don't think I've clarified my shift pattern actually...

2 earlies
2 lates
2 nights
4 days off*

Thats what we do too. If its a 6 on 4 off shift it won't be 12 hour shifts

I love my job but it can be fast paced & stressful. You see the other side of the 'police take hours to attend calls' coin but I wouldn't do anything else.

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