How many other Shift Workers or Night Shift Workers around?

Book · Post by **Book** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:22 am

I see alot of folks looking around at night and figured there is alot of us around. If I am off work I am asleep at 02:00, I work rotating 12 hour shifts 5am to 5pm both ways. The schedule has a lot of off time built into it. I love the off days during the week during hunting season. Thanks Book

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:12 am

Book,

I don't work at all because I'm on a dissability pension but I am a "night owl".

My local time zone is GMT + 10 hours and I'm typing this at 10:07pm Saturday. Sometimes when I go to bed it's starting to get light.

That is why you may see me logged in when you're logged in.

Cheers,
Wombat.

GREY OWL · Post by **GREY OWL** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:12 am

I'm a shift worker also Book. I work in a steam plant with one other guy on night shift. Things get awful boring babysitting boilers and chillers. It sure nice to catch up on news on the forum.

I like the 12 hour shifts. Now I have 5 days off. Which reminds me, I'm now heading to our property.

See ya Monday night Book.

Grey Owl

Digger · Post by **Digger** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:41 am

I woked 10 hr days and 14 hr night shift for 33 years on the Toronto Fire Dept. before I re tired in 1997. I still can cat nap any time, any where

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Digger

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:59 am

Digger wrote:I woked 10 hr days and 14 hr night shift for 33 years on the Toronto Fire Dept. before I re tired in 1997. I still can cat nap any time, any where .

Digger

Digger I sure would like to know how ta cat nap. Have tried it many times durning the DAYLIGHT hours and just can't do it

I is a night person

TAC · Post by **TAC** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:23 pm

I worked nights for 8 years and recently stopped about 9 months ago. It's nice to have a normal personality back again.

Some of my bosses could never understand why I was always tired. No matter how hard I tried to explain to them that if I went to work on Sunday night (technically 12:00 a.m. on Monday), I was up from Sunday morning at about 9:00 a.m. until I went home at 8:00 a.m. on Monday. Come Tuesday morning when I finished my shift I had slept, on average, about 5 hours since the time I got up on Sunday morning. Come Friday morning, I had slept for usually about 20 hours.

I then used to ask my bosses how many hours they had slept since Sunday morning. Some would get it; others would not.

I too can take a cat nap though pretty much anywhere and anytime!

I figured once I finished working the night shift my intelligence would return to normal. I don't think that's happening though!

Todd

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:53 pm

I'm a shift worker with Toronto Ambulance. It's a 12 hr shift of days and night over a 6 week cycle. LOVE IT. As mentioned earlier you have more days off and they are not restricted to the busy weekends when everyone else has time off. Within the 6 week cycle that we work we have a full 7.5 days off between the 2 sets of night shifts. Don't think I could ever go back to an 9-5 Monday to Friday schedule.

later

jeff

chadwimc · Post by **chadwimc** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 4:08 pm

I work two 12 hour shifts + two 8 hour shifts per week. Every other weekend is a three day weekend. Every other week, I get two days off in the middle of the week. It seems to be working well. I just plan my day around a late afternoon nap.

My nephew works for the fire department. He works 7 or 8 days per month. The 8th day is always overtime. But, those are 24 hour shifts with no guarentee that your shift will be over after 24 hours(big fires, relieving other companies, etc).

BRIANCARROLL2573 · Post by **BRIANCARROLL2573** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:48 pm

Shift worker here also. I am an electrical engineer and repair tech for Honda of Alabama. I work two weeks of days, then two weeks of nights.

icthus153 · Post by **icthus153** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:30 am

i operate a power plant at night, 7 on and 6 off, i love it, i reckon i am a vampire because i sleep well during the day and love working at night. they would have to pay me a premium to work during the day.

pdislow · Post by **pdislow** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:39 am

i operate a tug from 12 to 6 twice a day

Quickshot · Post by **Quickshot** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:45 pm

Shift work here as well. Maintanence electrician in a manufacturing plant. 12 hour shifts rotating nights and days. Lots of time off, and time to catch up on the forum.