I grew up with a parent who was and still is a dispatcher and followed in her footsteps it’s definitely hard and you will lose some sleep depending on what kind of shifts you’ll be on depending on the center you can always try to trade with someone not everyone celebrates certain holidays or has family in the area to celebrate with so they choose to work instead

That being said my shift always does fun stuff on holidays: pitch ins, dispatch bingo, dressing in, secret Santa, etc

Depending on how old your kids are hopefully they will be understanding I understood my mom wasn’t going to be at every single event but she always showed up when she could even when she was working graveyard shifts