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exboyfil

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4. The schedule is brutal for my daughter

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:46 AM

Sep 22

Sometimes they have to do 12 hour shifts overnight and then training. The schedule is irregular (2 days on, 1 day off, 1 day on or 3 days on etc). The 3 pm to 3 am shift is the worst. She has to go out to her car at 3 am in the morning in a rough part of town.

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I don't know what their compensation is, but they deserve way more...more of everything. CrispyQ Sep 22 #1

The schedule is brutal for my daughter exboyfil Sep 22 #4

I don't know how people work schedules like that. CrispyQ Sep 22 #8

DURec leftstreet Sep 22 #2

Daughter worked mental health for four years in an Iowa hospital exboyfil Sep 22 #3

During Covid, while my county had a mask mandate which lasted about 10 weeks, CrispyQ Sep 22 #9

Thanks - passing on to Iowa friends rurallib Sep 22 #5

cross-posted in the Iowa group Celerity Sep 22 #6

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