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[quote=Anonymous]I've done this for a client before on occasion; most days were 8-4 but every other Friday she would go out at night and had me work 8-12 and then 6-10pm. Those days were so hard. It was confusing for the child, my time off was not relaxing, and it was a late and stressful end to a long week.

Honestly, if you're talking about a five day per week job where every day is split like that, the first thing that comes to my mind is: when will you have a social life?? You won't be able to go out any evenings during the week because you're not getting off work until 10pm and you have to be back at work at 7:30am! If you're working late Friday night then Saturday night will be the /only/ night of the week you can do anything when you're not getting off work late or have to be up at 6:30/7am. And I don't know about you, but most of my friends do work roughly 9-5 so it's not like any of them would be available to hang out during your off time in the afternoons.

I've held nanny jobs before where I worked 7:30am-7pm every day, and sometimes had to stay late (8-9pm) as well, which did take a toll on my social and personal life. BUT, the trade off was that I was making a TON of money with overtime, etc. In this situation, you're losing a lot of personal time and freedom, but not being compensated any better (you're not making as much OT by having 4-6 hours off in the middle of the day).

If you love the family, are being paid extremely well, and really want to try it you can go for it, but I think you're just going to get burnt out and frustrated with it pretty quickly.[/quote]

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