Evening and weekend jobs??

[NigellaSeed]

My current employer is not going to consider giving me flexible working. Currently I work all 7 days of the week spread out over the month. But I only work 16 hours and my DS is going to be part time nursery so I can't cover my work hours. I could do some mornings, all evenings and weekends but this is not good enough for them.

But anywhoo, about to become a jobseeker during basically a recession and I can't find any evening and weekend work. I'm stressed to the eyeballs. I thought supermarket might be a shout but the only position available at the moment specifies a mix of morning, Afternoon and evening in the advert.

How do people get E and W jobs?

:(

Are you limiting this for childcare reasons? If so just use paid childcare and work regular hours? Very few jobs are just evenings and weekends

Pubs, restaurants, cinemas, bowling alleys, supermarkets, hotels, corner shops, care homes?

I worked in the hospitality industry for years - heavily geared towards evenings and weekends.

Look at the £10 per day thread for online jobs from home. Things like transcription and completing surveys online.

Do pubs and restaurants advertise on indeed etc? I used to work in a pub in my 20s but I think they just had a sign in their window.

I live in a village so I haven't actively seen any jobs in windows, I've been using indeed, city council website and gov jobs website.

Having my son in nursery full time is not an option, and we live 300 miles from family so no childcare help.

On indeed instead of typing in a job title write "weekend" do a separate search for "evening".
There are plenty of evening and weekend jobs out there.

You'll need to go into lots of smaller businesses - pop into the pub and see what they say!

I've just done a search of Plymouth for "evening" on Indeed - 134 jobs advertised, some for multiple people needed.

Mix of cleaners, front of house for restaurants, stock taking, night support work - you name it.

I got 12 results for "weekend" and that's with a 25 mile radius.

How do people get Chat support jobs. You know when you need help on a website. I currently work in customer service and I'd be great at Chat and could do all the hours that alot of people don't want to do.

I would look at whether any flexible local childminders would pick up from pre-school, or just use a nursery and use the free hours there?

He's only 21 months so we won't get free hours until he's 3.

I can't really afford a childminder and nursery on a 16hr contract.

But appreciate your input, thanks for commenting :)

Are there any factories/ pharmaceutical companies near you @NigellaSeed sometimes they have weekend night shift roles. I have a few friends that do them and it works great because they get 3 13 hour shifts with a shift rate of 20-30% of base salary on top. And no childcare to pay as their spouse is home at he weekend.

Social care, elderly or SEN adults/kids. Apply to care agencies and they will place you in a wide range of different settings and work around your availability. Often evenings, weekends, sleeping nights, mornings. The pay will be better then normal social care work.

@shabbalabba

Are there any factories/ pharmaceutical companies near you *@NigellaSeed* sometimes they have weekend night shift roles. I have a few friends that do them and it works great because they get 3 13 hour shifts with a shift rate of 20-30% of base salary on top. And no childcare to pay as their spouse is home at he weekend.

I have seen one factory and it seems to offer a weekend contract. I will apply. Thanks

It makes me sad that we wouldn't have weekends as a family, for my son's sake.
I know I don't have the luxury to choose though. It just sucks that so many part time jobs are shift work so you can't actually work 16hrs without basically full time childcare. It's so unfair. And now I'm being pushed out of a job I've had for a few years and face no pension, shit wage, shit CV and zero future. That whole working mother chestnut.

Theatres are good for evenings and weekends - front of house, bars, box office or tech. Depends where you are though!

@MalbecandToast

Are you limiting this for childcare reasons? If so just use paid childcare and work regular hours? Very few jobs are just evenings and weekends

I think the OPs problem is that employers these days often won't give you a set shift pattern, eg M-W 8-2 which would allow the OP to get a nursery place for these hours, but they'll give you Monday morning, Weds pm and Saturday evening one week and Tuesday afternoon, Friday morning and all day Sunday next week.

You'd have to have an extremely understanding childcare provider to take your child on that pattern because from their point of view, they have another parent with a similar work pattern which means one day they have 2 DC in and another none, which obviously doesn't work with staffing and ratios for them.

Employers should be compelled to offer more fixed work patterns and it's probably an equality issue not to, because disproportionately more women will be affected by this.

Evening/weekend office cleaner.

I got my weekend job through a job agency.
It is rubbish having to give up my weekends to work 6am-6pm Saturdays and Sundays. But the money is very good, I pick up very nearly as much as I would working full time due to shift allowance.
It allows me to do school runs and not have to worry about childcare in school holidays.
It's not forever though. I have to keep reminding myself that. Just for the greater needs of my family while my dc are young and need me. As soon as they are older I want my weekends back 😆

Where's your partner in all of this? Maybe it's his turn to evenings and weekends and you get to work regular hours?