Posted: 1/2/2011 10:02:59 PM EDT
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Don't worry, you'll get use to it.
After all, I've been doing it for over 18 years and it hasn't harmed me at all! ________________________________________________________________ (Trying to find a way to tell Schanke to keep away from her bar girls (who are vampirelles), "Let's just say you would become a permanent member of the night shift."––Janette, (w,stte), "Forever Knight") |
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I just don't sleep well..... I need to be up in like 5 hours. that used to be me.. finally fall asleep around 2am to wake up at 5am for work. I think I will like this shift, I get to basically sleep as much as i want/can during the day and still get up and get shit done before i come in. |
. been working 7p-7a for 6 months now. yes thank god for this site.
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I did 2nd shift (4pm - 1am) for a year or so a long time ago..
That truly sucked. Nothing is open at 1am - except Ihop. My routine involved leaving work, go to Ihop to eat, then go to the gym when it opened at 5am.... then slept until work. I was in the best shape of my life, but I also hated life. ha |
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After all, I've been doing it for over 18 years and it hasn't harmed me at all! The OP's totally fucked. 
I thought that might send him screaming in terror. ______________________________________________ ("Earth is doomed."––Giles watching Buffy go off with Xander and Willow, talking teenager stuff, (w,stte), "BtVs") |
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I do rotating shifts. The only danger with graveyard is spending either all your spare time at home doing jack shit - or the opposite and spending all day getting stuff done. It's either one or the other for me. Cant seem to maintain a proper life routine at all. 2nd shift is best i reckon. |
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It's definately hard on the social life. I'm going on year 6 on 2nd shift, worked 3rd for about a year before that.
The nice side is that the fishing pressure in the daytime (especially mornings) during the week is very low.  Not many people at the range either.
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It's definately hard on the social life. I'm going on year 6 on 2nd shift, worked 3rd for about a year before that. The nice side is that the fishing pressure in the daytime (especially mornings) during the week is very low. Not many people at the range either.After work fishing and range time is good on 3rd. Shift premium helped too but who ever invented 2nd should be taken out back and shot. |
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So all us 3rd shifters......what's for "breakfast" when we get off shift? What's our new years resolution to eat better? ____________________________________ ("BEEF! It's what's dinner!"––(wtte), beef commercial) probably nothing. I ate 2 cans of plain tuna and crackers at about midnight. When i get home it's straight to bed. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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So all us 3rd shifters......what's for "breakfast" when we get off shift? What's our new years resolution to eat better? ____________________________________ ("BEEF! It's what's dinner!"––(wtte), beef commercial) BED! i had left over chicken parm at about 330 im good till i wake up at about 6 tonight |
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Having done this shift for 18+ years, one thing I find over the year is that I really don't have a schedule, things just fall where they do.....and I'd like to change that, put some norm back in my life.
I had a salad before I came into work. I'm thinking of cooking up fish when I get home, have a recipe book here with me, something for the hunger but not overwhelming so I write off the rest of the day. That's something with these two huge TV screens over my head (now off because I find them distracting....though I might see if Robin Meade is on in 35 minutes). When I come in, the 2nd shift usually has the cooking channel going and usually when he leaves, he goes to the grocery first. I think one tends to think a lot about food on this shift....but it just may be that kind of work. Sigh, no Robin, TV's off again. _____________________________________________ ("Hey, Mayor! Que Pasa? We're about as busy around here as a pair of jumper cables at a holiday picnic."––SimCirty's Fire Chief Edward Alvarez at his desk....with a cook book, (w,stte), "Sim City Classic") |
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Having done this shift for 18+ years, one thing I find over the year is that I really don't have a schedule, things just fall where they do.....and I'd like to change that, put some norm back in my life. I had a salad before I came into work. I'm thinking of cooking up fish when I get home, have a recipe book here with me, something for the hunger but not overwhelming so I write off the rest of the day. That's something with these two huge TV screens over my head (now off because I find them distracting....though I might see if Robin Meade is on in 35 minutes). When I come in, the 2nd shift usually has the cooking channel going and usually when he leaves, he goes to the grocery first. I think one tends to think a lot about food on this shift....but it just may be that kind of work. _____________________________________________ ("Hey, Mayor! Que Pasa? We're about as busy around here as a pair of jumper cables at a holiday picnic."––SimCirty's Fire Chief Edward Alvarez at his desk....with a cook book, (w,stte), "Sim City Classic") so what do you do for a living? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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so what do you do for a living? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile You know those missile silos west of town? I'm down in one of them......OH, YOU DON'T KNOW OF THEM?.....well, better not say anything then. No, I'm in a network operations center, something like this: 
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| I'm on year 2 of third shift right now. Whoever said it is right, you don't have a schedule and after a while you will be able to sleep anyplace and anytime. The hardest part is having obligations after/before work. Like if you're in the middle of your work week and have to attend a family gathering or something and then go straight to work it sucks because you will be dead tired at the event and then dead tired at work that night...otherwise I don't mind it too much. Like today I had training/recertification from 15:30 until 21:30 and then work from 22:00 to 06:00. I'm ready for bed right now! Only 45 more minutes... I might actually stop and get myself a deluxe breakfast from mcdonalds on the way home. Not a big fast food fan but after a day like today I really don't want to have to make myself breakfast when I get home. |
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I'm on year 2 of third shift right now. Whoever said it is right, you don't have a schedule and after a while you will be able to sleep anyplace and anytime. The hardest part is having obligations after/before work. Like if you're in the middle of your work week and have to attend a family gathering or something and then go straight to work it sucks because you will be dead tired at the event and then dead tired at work that night...otherwise I don't mind it too much. I am not too thrilled about parties at work because they are usually at the end of the day shift and when they are winding down, I can't. I may be winding up, but I am certainly not winding down. IF one could be on their own after work, without obligations, then it is pretty good. Catch is, it so often goes the other way. A big problem is that "day people" do not understand night shift. So often I have been called here or there to help with family issues and when it comes to sleep, the standard response is, "Well, you can take a nap." They don't understand that our day sleep is as vital as their night sleep. Another issue is that there seems to be this view to various degrees that one does not have a "real job". Other things? I get some rather interesting dreams....but I put that down being out of phase. Such as dreams where it might be night but it feels like "day" or that I am here at work and I feel asleep. Hating daytime television, giving up on nighttime TV, things like that. But....it pays the bills. __________________________________________________ ("Some friends of Buffy's played a funny joke and they took her stuff. And now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans."––Xander trying to pass the message in open company, (w,stte), BtVs "The Freshman") |
| I totally agree with you about people not understanding the whole 3rd shift sleeping in the day thing. My fiancé doesn't get it especially. She thinks that I don't need sleep at all lol...Also people who know you sleep in the daytime who still call you. That pisses me off. That's part of the sacrifice I guess. |
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I did 2nd shift (4pm - 1am) for a year or so a long time ago.. That truly sucked. Nothing is open at 1am - except Ihop. My routine involved leaving work, go to Ihop to eat, then go to the gym when it opened at 5am.... then slept until work. I was in the best shape of my life, but I also hated life. ha I bounce between second shift (2-10) and third shift (10PM-6AM). I prefer third shift, since nothing is open when I get off work at 10PM except for bars. |
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I've been on night shift of some sort for about 16 out of the last 18 years. I'll pass on some helpful tips about sleep hygiene. 1. Make sure your bedroom is dark, I mean dark as a fucking cave. Cardboard and tinfoil, duct tape, blackout curtains, whatever it takes. 2. Have a white noise source, ceiling or floor fan, window AC, whatever. 3. Keep some good comfortable earplugs readily at hand, sometimes the assholes with jackhammers, weedwhackers, kids, etc. will wake you up. 4. Don't have a TV in your bedroom, and don't go to bed until you are sleepy enough to crash, tossing and turning doesn't do you any good. 5. After a few months you won't feel weird about having a drink at 5 or 6 am when everyone else is drinking coffee.  6. If at all possible, don't try to change your sleep cycle drastically on your days off, you'll be a zombie your first day back at work. Have fun!  |
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I've been on night shift of some sort for about 16 out of the last 18 years. I'll pass on some helpful tips about sleep hygiene. 1. Make sure your bedroom is dark, I mean dark as a fucking cave. Cardboard and tinfoil, duct tape, blackout curtains, whatever it takes. 2. Have a white noise source, ceiling or floor fan, window AC, whatever. 3. Keep some good comfortable earplugs readily at hand, sometimes the assholes with jackhammers, weedwhackers, kids, etc. will wake you up. 4. Don't have a TV in your bedroom, and don't go to bed until you are sleepy enough to crash, tossing and turning doesn't do you any good. 5. After a few months you won't feel weird about having a drink at 5 or 6 am when everyone else is drinking coffee.
6. If at all possible, don't try to change your sleep cycle drastically on your days off, you'll be a zombie your first day back at work. Have fun! +1 on the white noise. My wife bought me one of those white noise machines (with sounds of rainforests, ocean tides, etc.) and it's helped me sleep much better. |