irc333 Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 I just met this woman at a Meetup, and I was talking to her last night. Apparenlty, she's done some dating here and there and most of the men she's dated wound up frustrated and calling things off because she works the weekends...and has odd-ball weekdays off..(like Mon. and Tues) off. So if you go out on a Sat night with her, she'd have to home early for bed time and so forth. Is there a way one can work at this? Have you been able to put up with this long enough or is such a conflict a problem for you?
Armena Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 I have those hours. Wouldn't be a problem for me. Even if i stay up late, I can always catch up on sleep the day after. Does she get any week ends off at all?
Emilia Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Is there a way one can work at this? Have you been able to put up with this long enough or is such a conflict a problem for you? Sure. You go out on other nights/evenings/days. I never understood this inflexibility with Saturday nights. Why couldn't he go out with his mates on Saturday and have dinner with her on Monday or Tuesday? This sort of short-sighted nonsense is silly in my opinion.
sillyanswer Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Have you been able to put up with this long enough or is such a conflict a problem for you? I've tried dating a girl with a similar work schedule. She was usually working at least one day at the weekend and many evenings during the week as well as every week day. To make it worse her evening and weekend schedule seemed to change unpredictably from one week to the next (at least, that's how it seemed from my viewpoint - I'm not sure how much notice or control she had over it). It made it hard to plan more than a week into the future. It limited how often we could see each other. It made it difficult for her to stay over at mine (because her work wasn't near my house so there would be a crazy-long commute on days when she was working the next day, and sometimes when she had a day off in her schedule she was still working the night before which made it hard for her to get to my place). This wasn't the main reason things didn't work out, but it was part of it. 1
Emilia Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 It made it difficult for her to stay over at mine (because her work wasn't near my house so there would be a crazy-long commute on days when she was working the next day, and sometimes when she had a day off in her schedule she was still working the night before which made it hard for her to get to my place). This wasn't the main reason things didn't work out, but it was part of it. I can see why the combination of irregular hours and distance would make it harder
happywithlife Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 I would think you should be able to work with a different work schedule like that. In some ways its like dating someone with kids. Wed is date night for my boyfriend and I because its the only night of the week that we both don't have kids. Most weekends one of us has our kids. We see each other on the weekends, but its always with the kids. Wed is when we go out to the movies, dinner, etc and stay up later. We catch up on sleep the other nights of the week. Just be flexible!
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