the 40 hour work week is a pipe dream. seems almost every job either wants you to work a ridiculous number of hours, or not enough hours to get by on.
This. And, if you don't have enough hours to get by on, they still want you available whenever
they need you to work (makes sense from their perspective), regardless of the fact that this makes it impossible to work whenever your
other job wants you to work. So one or the other (or two if you have three) jobs will cut your hours even
more, since your aren't reliable for their needs, forcing you to rely on one, primary part time job (just better hope it pays most of your bills and the rest of the jobs cover the rest even though they only give you 5-10 hours a week because of schedule conflicts with your other jobs).
Also they have a tendency to change your schedule without consulting you, schedule you for when you have
definitely told them in writing that you
can't work, and then have the audacity to act like it's
your problem and
you'd best be getting your shift covered when you politely inform them that, no, you won't be working tomorrow from 6-9PM, because that's a Thursday, and every Thursday you kind of are working at your other job at that time, the same as you always are... Plus, you end up burning a ton of gas hopping from job to job and stopping at home in between if you've got 2-3 hours and nothing to do with yourself in the meantime (if you are lucky enough to own a car; if not, best hope you can find one job to pay your bills, heh).
Granted, this is in upstate New York (very rural area), and the jobs that I've worked at (although I haven't had that problem with my current job, only with previous ones that my wife and I have had); however, at this point, it's the only job I've got besides the reserves, and it is, along with my wife's job, barely covering the bills, so I'm hoping it works out until I can land a nicer job).
