night shift

Anyone on night shift?

Well not right now but I work a roster that has me doing 7 graveyard shifts every three weeks.

I start my next lot of shift on Tuesday, glad I have mobile internet

I think the first night and the last are the worst. And the daytime is just a haze!

The part about shiftwork I used to enjoy was seeing a different slice of the day. I rotated stepped shifts and would start anywhere between midday and 7pm.

I really don't miss it now though.

I don't know how you do night shift, some of us from the gene pool are only able to work during daylight hours. Tried shift quite a while ago with poor results, confirming i needed to be joe average... what do you do requiring such bugger hours?

Railways.

Sterilising surgical instruments. I do 6 different shifts over a six week rotating roster. It has it's advantages too - days off during the week for example.

Countess at least your work is useful. I get to reset forgetful peoples passwords and generally waste my time for calls that don't come in. Oh and pick up the slack from day shift

I did a bit of night shift in Kunnunurra harvesting sugar cane a few years ago. 12 hour shifts. Wasn't bad, great night sky up there. Saw a heap of awesome meteor showers.

And wow, what about the sunrise? But sleeping in the daytime is really hard - everyone else is so noisy!

I dips me lid to all those whom are able to sustain working shifts, no matter where or the work. I suppose sometimes on shift liberties such as being a bit more noisy and able to sustain joke telling sessions are part of keeping the interest up...to say the very least!

Thof wrote:I dips me lid to all those whom are able to sustain working shifts, no matter where or the work.

It's not a skill I want to have. I pretty much break my rule about riding whilst being overtired at the end of every shift, including the day ones. There have been mornings where I carved up traffic at the lights like it was standing still, not something that I'm proud of. The bandit did sound good though

Another thing with shift work, you tend to post consecutive times, like now :-)

Just finished watching Mark Knopfler - A Life in songs, a BBC4 doco. Spent the entire time with a stupid grin on my face and a slight tear in the eye remembering all the songs he (MK) has written and played through the decades. He's still writing, playing and touring.

Baker for 29years need i say more