You could try pugging a few raids. Having multiple characters at 80 means its not as big a deal when you get saved to a raid with a terrible group. You can just hop on another char and find a better group. By the time you go through all your characters, the raids will have reset.


There are also guilds out there that are more casual about raid times. The guild I'm in does Ulduar regularly and doesn't care about my erratic schedule at all.