Second shift is so hard because you miss pretty much all your regular family time. I hated it, even when I had to do it in spurts to cover for other people.
It will be hard, but hopefully this will be a building block to something more suitable in the near future. Sometimes if you work hard and put a bug in your supervisor's ear that your interested in an opening for something else you can get what you're looking for.
I'm so glad Will's appointment went well. He has a wonderful advocate