francesXXX
Active Member
I work for myself as a hairdresser, am busy all week long but of course the weekend and evenings are the most in demand times. The problem is, I’ve done this weekend and evening work for 15 years and it’s now really getting to me. I hardly ever get to see my partner who works 9-5, and we’re now trying to renovate our house which is just not happening because of my weekend work, we are rarely off on the same day at once (maybe 1 or 2 days a month for social events) and I feel like we don’t get enough time together in the evenings. I’m thinking about when I have children too, which we want to do pretty soon, and these awkward hours just aren’t going to work for my life long-term. I love my job and look forward to it every week day, but I hate having to go off early on a Saturday leaving my partner in bed and missing the weekends. I miss all family events, seeing friends and attending anything fun. Having a day off in the week is really useless to me and I’ve even just started working on that day anyway because I get lonely hanging about while everyone else I know is at work. I really want to make my working week Mon-Fri 9-6, I have enough work to fill up this time frame, but I’m so worried about letting down all my evening and weekend clients, which is probably about half of them. Has anyone ever stopped working out-of-hours times and gone ‘normal’ with your working hours as a Hairdresser or beauty therapist? I feel lucky to have the choice to control this, but at the same time it’s giving me anxiety the thought of telling so many of my friends and clients that I basically can’t do their hair anymore, unless they start taking days off work in the week.