Salutations and greetings.

As I have been looking through job postings, I cringe at appealing looking jobs and then I see “must have open availability.”  This got me to sharing my recent thoughts on schedules and what I would prefer.

I do not want to and I am not open to a twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Currently I have hard time commitments twice a week. Sundays I have church and related functions. Thursday afternoons I assist in leading the church youth group. (Might be changing to Wednesday in 2015)

Having these on my schedule are mental flagstones in my week and  I am happy to have them.

I had a job at a fast food place (irony is I do not eat fast food) that did not close at all during the year. This included working Christmas day. I will not complain as I did sign up to work at that place, but I was not happy about working that day instead of uniting with my family.

Having complete open availability at that place, meant that unless you were a shift manager or a lead “cook” you could be scheduled any time, minus roughly around 3am-5am. For people looking for flexible hours or where this was a second job or working around a school it had those benefits. For a time I had my availability open, minus Thursday evenings and Sundays. This sometimes meant getting off at 3am on Sunday and then being at church five hours later. After some time there I took some more college units(twelve), which led to a more regulated schedule.

Enough of going down that lane of memory.

I would prefer to work Monday through Friday from  7am-3:30pm or 8am-4:30pm.
If off at 3:30 I would have more available time to either to start/have a side job and/or take some classes. (This assumes I will be working hourly.)

Saturdays would be for side work/choirs/day trips/learning/family/friends.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Sunday as I stated prior is church and related events and assisting
FreeFall Stage and growing friendships within those communities.

This does not mean I will not work outside those hours, but what I would prefer.

What are your preferred hours/days to work?

 

 

 

 

 

As I am looking for work, I wanted to have a visual idea of where I am looking.

Not long ago I stumbled upon a way to draw lines on a map thanks to our overlords at Google. I wanted it to be able to easily share it and have it edible, I mean editable (I am currently hungry). After a few key strokes I rediscovered the service as Google My Maps.

Using it, I created this to show a rough area and a preferred area I want to work and move to.

Looking at this map I now can easily factor out areas if I end up working at an hourly pay and the cost margins on time and travel exceed the budget.

Does having something visual like this help you?