graveyard shift

minxie

so you work the graveyard shift....
what do you do when you finish?? straight to bed
or up all day:(
what do you do to unwind....me i find im still up by ten or so and am
wrecked again in the evening...
looking forward to the replies

dcukhunter

Just relax for a couple hours watch a bit of tele or play a few games online. Then go to bed about 10 or 11. Back up around 4 or 5 and do it all again

Will

Used to work 8pm - 8am, 4 days on, 3 days off.

Work was on the other side of the city so wouldn't get home until about 9am. First 2 days I'd get in and hit the hay straight off. 3rd day I'd be used to it so would potter about for an hour or so talking with family.

4th day was a killer, I'd go to sleep around 10am but force myself to get up around 2 so I could get back into the swing of normal hours. Then it started again a few days later

slightly off topic, but the longest hours of the morning is between 5 and 6 am. Hate the time, just dragged.

friend and foe

yeah i know the feeling will..
i used to do the 8pm-8am a couple years ago and it was a pain in the swiss..
also didn't help that i was doing it monday-friday for two *edit months leading upto christmas...
although the money was pretty good, it needn't have mattered with no energy to hang around and try go shopping after finishing up..
managed to get about three and a half weeks straight of minimal twenty mins of any form of daylight as it was dark when i finished work, and dark again when i got up...


*edited to two months, as opposed to two moths, because otherwise that would be weird.. and sad... and kinda cool at the same time...

minxie

Will wrote: »

Used to work 8pm - 8am, 4 days on, 3 days off.



slightly off topic, but the longest hours of the morning is between 5 and 6 am. Hate the time, just dragged.

yeah i work 3 days on and some o/t thrown in...
work from 6.45pm till 6.45am your heads all over the place.:(
used to love between 4 and 6 but dread it now

Will

I'm gonna moan a bit more now

Took me 2.5 hours to get to work with traffic so would usually leave around 5pm, be in anytime between 7:30 and 8pm. So average sleep would be about 5 hours or so. It was 2 summers ago also, the real stupidly hot one. sleeping during the day was so hard

dcukhunter

Will wrote: »

Used to work 8pm - 8am, 4 days on, 3 days off.

Work was on the other side of the city so wouldn't get home until about 9am. First 2 days I'd get in and hit the hay straight off. 3rd day I'd be used to it so would potter about for an hour or so talking with family.

4th day was a killer, I'd go to sleep around 10am but force myself to get up around 2 so I could get back into the swing of normal hours. Then it started again a few days later

slightly off topic, but the longest hours of the morning is between 5 and 6 am. Hate the time, just dragged.

I work much the same 4 on 3 off 6pm to 8am the last day I just stay up and go to bed early if I can your straight back to days again. Then stay up late the night before work again.
The morn is the worst 3-6 I fine sometimes its ok other times the clock just seems to stop moving altogether.

TestTransmission

Will wrote: »

Used to work 8pm - 8am, 4 days on, 3 days off.

Work was on the other side of the city so wouldn't get home until about 9am. First 2 days I'd get in and hit the hay straight off. 3rd day I'd be used to it so would potter about for an hour or so talking with family.

4th day was a killer, I'd go to sleep around 10am but force myself to get up around 2 so I could get back into the swing of normal hours. Then it started again a few days later

slightly off topic, but the longest hours of the morning is between 5 and 6 am. Hate the time, just dragged.

Currently doing a 8pm to 8am shift,thank fook its past 6!

Crumble Froo

never had net access while doing night shifts, used to work for a few days at a time.

TestTransmission

im in IT so its kinda necessary

fergusm76

Nice to know I'm not the only one doing 8-8, altho I'll be back to days for the weekend. Plays havoc with my system switching every few days. On the bright side, I'm off tomorrow, but I'll probably lseep most of it :eek:

BAsTid

I work 11pm to 8am, not bad but when i get home (bout 9am) i generally have a lil snack stick on a dvd and fall asleep to it, wake up by 3pm and go play the computer or watch tv, then its back to bed round 6-7pm and sleep till 10ish, up shower and off to work!

Cos i'm up during the day switching back for the weekend isnt a problem!

rotinaj

Doing 6pm-6am four nights a week for the last six months. Supposed to be switching bock to 6am-6pm coming up to xmas so it wil be nice to sleep at night.

Oh ya, some nights i work 5pm-8:30am. Its hell

cyberwolf77

I work 9:45-6:15 come home, watch some tv, check my email, read for a while then eventually get to bed around ten or so. Up again at 5 to start again.

star-pants

I used to work two jobs -
one was 9am-5.30pm Mon-Fri, reception, so I'd have to be up by 7.30 the latest.
the other was 10.30pm - anywhere from 1am - 4am, 15mins walk home, check mails, go to bed. Try and sleep. get up before half 7.

Eric Cartman

work 3pm till 10:30, then an hour bus home , normally eat and go to bed, the moneys too good to hate it though

DenMan

I used to work 8 am to 8 pm for three days in a row, then be off two days and then do 8 pm to 8 am. Every week this would change between mornings and evenings. I am used to staying up late so the night shifts weren't that difficult to adjust to. I loved the time between 4 am and 6 am, really lovely night skies. Used to avoid taking caffeine and sugar during the night shift as you would be fcuked the next day. I preferred the night shift to the day shift, more of a nocturnal owl anyway. Also hated the chocolate goodies that my mates used to take when working days/nights.

On days used to stay up late and on nights used to stay up lat(er). It's my routine, and I always stood by it.

minxie

DenMan wrote: »

I used to work 8 am to 8 pm for three days in a row, then be off two days and then do 8 pm to 8 am. Every week this would change between mornings and evenings. I am used to staying up late so the night shifts weren't that difficult to adjust to. I loved the time between 4 am and 6 am, really lovely night skies. Used to avoid taking caffeine and sugar during the night shift as you would be fcuked the next day. I preferred the night shift to the day shift, more of a nocturnal owl anyway. Also hated the chocolate goodies that my mates used to take when working days/nights.

On days used to stay up late and on nights used to stay up lat(er). It's my routine, and I always stood by it.

same here now... wide awake an ill be wrecked by tonight for work...
did 5 12 hr shifts this week tho
am stuffing my face with a chicken sambo