Hey everyone,
Basically, I have 3 kids aged 10, 6 and 5. My 5 year old is autistic and needs constant care which my partner provides.
I started my new job in middle of June and I work 12 hour shifts - normally 3 or 4 shifts a week. Sometimes they're day shifts and sometimes they're night shifts.
Issue is, I'm struggling with one readjusting myself to this. I absolutely love working and the job I do but it takes me days to recover from working shifts which means I often spend my days off either sleeping or not carrying my weight around the house and making sure everything stays tidy.
At the minute, the house fluctuates from being a tip to being clean but I can't seem to keep a happy medium. The kids wreck any cleaning that I do within the day and it's absolutely exhausting.
I'm also struggling with just parenting in general, my 5 and 6 year old have been behaving atrociously and I've just been giving in because I'm so tired but I know this only makes it worse in the long run.
Overall, I feel like I'm failing everyone around me. I feel like I don't have the energy to get necessary things done and I absolutely love working, I would be devastated if I had to quit because I can't be a normal hard working woman. I am autistic as well and struggle with my mental health but I'm finding work helps with my depression but increases my burnout rate massively.
Any tips? ðŸ˜