Zombie Night Shift Survival

Always been an early to rise bird. Even when I was young I could not train myself to work overnight shift. Its a bioclock thing.

Keep safe, @Dave_in_AZ and the shiny side up. This too shall pass.

 

The vampire shift creates all kinds of special challenges. My wife always looks at me funny when I get home and crack open a cold one at 6:30 in the morning.

 

I remember cranking the radio.. think strangle hold. Mayby ted nugent? 4am to daybreak was brutal. Thinking, is it ever going to be daylight?

 

Hey..its 17:00 somewhere..

 

Heh, I had a teacher in JR high/middle school that claimed the best way to start the day was with a shot of whiskey.

I thought he was a quack that probably had a few shots before work. Especially when you would make a statement like that to a room full of early teenager's.


It took a while, but maybe he was right.

 

Thanks, that's a really good song! I found them on YouTube, and will add a couple/few via iItunes to my ipod.

 

As a young guy(24) I have to disagree, I really enjoy my night time linehaul run, start at 2130 and can finish around 0700.

But then again I could be the exception. I'd say the average age of the people at my meet is 50.

 

I worked a couple months straight nights, and I won’t do it again. It was during the winter too, so I never saw the sun. 14 hour shifts with an hour commute each way. Wake up, go to work, eat all three meals there, come home, go to bed, wake up and back to work. The two days I’d be off were pointless. Was a total zombie the whole time. Not for me, thanks. I thrive from noon to midnight.