Working in a Supermarket?

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Have almost decided to become a SAHM, but will need to work part-time in order to be able to afford this:

-Do supermarkets have an evening shift say 7-10?
-Am a likely to be able to get a job in a supermarket only being able to work these times?
-What other "careers" would allow me to work evenings/early mornings?

In this financial climate AIBU to think I'll be able to get any job at all e.g. supermarket/cleaning given that I am overqualified (degree etc)

i work at m&s 5 til 10pm. the team i manage work 6 til 10pm 3 or 4 nights a week with alternating fridays and saturdays. at christmas the hours tend to increase to midnight finish. we run the shop from 6 til we close at 8 or 9pm. then the last hour is general tidying.

there's also an early morning team who work 7 til 11am ish, they put the delivery out.

having a degree is fine. i have one as do several of my colleagues. we're mostly mums or students doing the job because of the hours. we also have several staff who are doing the job as a 2nd income, people like estate agents, car salesmen, etc who are earning less in their day job.

night staff aren't all dullards who can't get anything better

I worked at a call centre just after DS1 was born 6 till 10 four nights a week.
Hours were perfect for me (was BT 192 at the time)
It all depends what you have close to you.

Thanks for the feedback - I hadn't thought of call centres

If anyone else has ideas please post!

Care worker? Not everyone's cup of tea and not necessarily well paid but there is a very high demand and it's a very worthwhile job.

Don't you need qualifications for care work?

No, not to start with. A good care home or care company will train their staff and put them through their NVQs.

There is a serious shortage of care workers.

I used to work at a swimming pool, on reception, Saturday mornings and occasional evenings.

How about home parties/child friendly daytime events?

I worked in care work for 7 years, elderly, adults with complex needs, and children, and haven't any formal qualifications in care.

You will get on the job training, and in this day and age its nationally recognised transferrable training (it wasn't when I first started in the caring industry)

I am in the same boat and am struggling finding supermarket/shop work. I wanted to avoid the care sector only because they usually require flexibility of hours which is hard with a little one.

I have just got a job as a health care worker (my new job doesn't start until the autumn and I thought I would get something to fit around the children). As a bank HCA you can choose what shifts you work and can do earlies, lates or nights and can do as many/as few as you choose.
They didn't ask for experience

But as a bank HCA you don't necessarily get work? Isn't "bank" when someone else is off/ill?

OK, so BUPA seems to advertise for lots of on-demand staff

How much work are you actually likely to get if only able to do early/late shifts

What is the pay like

Do they just phone you up and then you accept/refuse the work offered?

What is your employment status? do they deal with tax/ni etc

I worked on bank and agency and contracted hours in care, and had plenty of work with all of them.

They phone you up and you say if you can or can't work that shift. Usually you get a couple of weeks notice but it could be straight away.

Generally, you are employed on a zero hours contract- ie you are not guarenteed any work, but as long as you are not TOO fussy you should be fine.

So is it usually done on a shift by shift basis as opposed to week/month at a time?

I found that it was usually done on a monthly basis, but I did get phonecalls for that day too.

Waitressing - usually minimum wage but tips definately make it worthwhile.