Re: This is the thread that never ends….

[Anonymous]

Carrie, I never intended to do nights, but when my son started kindy I began having trouble fitting my day shifts around his half day kindy sessions. I had a friend who would help out, but an opening on nights became available and it seemed like a great solution to how I would work my job around the kids’ schooling and extracurricular activities. I have never looked back. Now I couldn’t work day shift if I wanted to – my knees are falling apart from arthritis, and my back is too, so nights give me the opportunity to stay in nursing but not put such high demands on my body. I am lucky I work in the area I do, or I would have had to resign. It’s not that I couldn’t do the work safely, but that I would be in pain afterwards and need time off to recover. And by looking after my knees, I am delaying the inevitable knee replacements – I am considered too young for them now, and need to try and put them off for another ten years if I can.

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