I need advice guys.
This morning my wife told me to get another job. My roster is 4 ( 12 hour shift ) on and if you classify the morning I finish night shift its 5 days off before I go back.
I have been doing shift work for nearly 15 years and honestly love it. The $$$ I'm on has allowed us to have a house in a area we like and the life style. For me as a qualifyed sparky for me to make the same $$$ I would need to at least work 6 days a week back in the heavy industry / petro chem back in Melbourne or maybe move.
She has said my shift work has to much of a distruption on the family and her to look after 2 boys 4 and nearly 7. She also went on that I do nothing around the house and I'm a crap father and we live just a co excistence. The way I see it is I would need to do more hours for most likely less money and be away for more hours and will also probably need to down size.
I'm getting to a point were maybe we should seperate as it has been hard for the past couple of years between us and I have suffering depression on and off as well.
I know it's hard as you guys don't know the full story but I would like to know from fellow shift workers hw they manage.
Cheers
SNAFU