The night shift

[jay see]

Welcome the zombie world. Jaysee will take you through the formal induction.

Pretty straight forward.
Whatever you want/have to do to get through to the over end, just make sure that you share it with us.
Driving home is the biggest challenge sometimes.

[taslucas]

I'm only about 5 kms from home. 👍

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[Hodge]

I'm only about 5 kms from home. 

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Sometime it takes less than that ..... Microsleep kills.
I once dozed out while waiting for our gate to slide open at work after swiping the card.... Just that 15-20 seconds of being KO is all it takes... Could have happened on the freeway.

[Clunk]

I used to work permanent nights, loved it. Monday to Wednesday 5pm to 4:30am, Thursday 5pm to 1am. Usually home in bed by 5:30- 6am, then up at 12 or 1pm...... or if i did overtime finish at 6, in bed by 7am and up buy 2pm......... with a nice long weekend every weekend, or overtime on Saturday mornings if I wanted. I found it quite easy but I guess that's because I was always a night owl anyway and didn't have a family back then

[taslucas]

This will be 5 day shift, 5 off, 5 night shift, 5 off, 4 day, 4 off, 4 night, 4 off and repeat

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[nissannewby]

This will be 5 day shift, 5 off, 5 night shift, 5 off, 4 day, 4 off, 4 night, 4 off and repeat

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Good ole "lifestyle" roster as they call it up here. Its not nice. I prefer more consistent shifts. Experience tells from about night 3 you are starting to be ok with it. Working mon-fri afternoon/night shifts (1600-0000) is easy as its consistent. 4-5-5-4 is hard to get use to. Danger hours are between 0300 and 0400.

[jay see]

Good ole "lifestyle" roster as they call it up here. Its not nice. I prefer more consistent shifts. Experience tells from about night 3 you are starting to be ok with it. Working mon-fri afternoon/night shifts (1600-0000) is easy as its consistent. 4-5-5-4 is hard to get use to. Danger hours are between 0300 and 0400.

We do a 12 hour shift. 7pm - 7am with breaks at 10,1 and 4. You reckon I can keep my eyes open at the last break.

Lucus what hours are your shifts?

[taslucas]

Hours are 6:30 to 6:30 whether it's day or night.

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[taslucas]

Yeah it'll be a shock. The closest I've come is a few months of afternoon shift a long time ago. That was 4pm till 11pm which was great because it wasn't much later than the time I'd normally be up till.
Luckily we don't have any kids yet so I'll be able to run the routine I need.

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[taslucas]

I often stay up all night but it'll be hard without beer....

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