He's always working

I say 'working' fairly loosely because the other day I found out he wasn't actually working at all when he told me he was. I work 5 days a week, 9 til 5, like routine. My boyfriend works part-time outside of university, but his hours are insane and unpredictable. At the moment he works all day every weekend, and almost every day during the week. I get about 1-2 nights a week to see him, and NEVER a day during the weekend. Now I understand that this isn't really his fault, but this isn't the first time we've had this problem. I dated him last year and we broke up because he had no time for me, and I felt ignored. This year he's told me he has all this new time, and he can make it work, but after less than a month it's back to normal. I don't have his rota, so I don't know for sure if he even IS working when he tells me he is, because I've caught him out about it before. And I know he has other friends, but often I feel like he's putting our relationship second and would rather see his friends on his rare time off than see me. I just feel used and neglected and a little lied to. He rarely travels to my house because I'm the one with the car, so I always have to drive to his. I feel more like a booty call when he's got an evening off than his girlfriend at times. I get that he has to work- he's a student, he needs the hours. But I feel totally sidelined in his life and not like a girlfriend at all, and it eats me up inside because I really do make every effort to make this work. When we're together, it's like the perfect relationship, but those times are few and far between. What do I do? He hasn't done anything WRONG really, so how do I confront this issue? it seems a little ridiculous to break up over WORK HOURS, but seriously, it's not a relationship unless you're actually seeing each other. Anon cos he has a profile i think.

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