More or less - I have to stay up all night. Most of you know I’ve started on a new assignment a coupple of weeks back. It’s the server maintenance department at my customer and well, it involves answering alarms and so on.
My main concern with this is that I’ll be working nights.. and evenings.. and some weekends. The jobs I’ve had before have involved fluctuating time schemes but never nights and weekends, so I don’t really know how I will react to working these hours.
Some say that it’s the best they’ve ever done, others say that they lost their social life (that’s not going to be a problem) and so on. Although the work scheme is pretty nice. It’s on a five week cykle starting with two weeks with day passes (07-15:30), one week night (23-07), one week evening (16-23) and finishes of with a week without work before it stars over again. Seems very passable to me, my grandma doesn’t think it’ll be any problyem at all since “I sit up all night anyway”.
Reason that I post this is because my first night-week starts on sunday (23-07) and I’m feeling alittle anxious i guess.
About an hour left now until I get to go home.. I want to play Mass effect 2..
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I worked on a similar schedule at the mill back home. Only difference is we worked 06:00-14:00, 14:00-22:00, 22:00-06:00. But everybody came half an hour early to work to catch up on work stuff and release others early if possible.
I liked evening shifts, but I never liked afternoon shifts, felt like you did nothing but working. The only real problem with shift work is that you have to switch from night to day. But looking at your scedule you wont have that problem. I usually had to end work at 06:00, then wake up 04:45 24 hours later and start the day shift.
I got a tip for you though. When you work nightshift you will probably be able to sleep all day. Not sure why but I sleept like a rock when I worked night shift. However if I managed to drag my ass out of bed at 12:00 or 13:00 I was tired at first but once it passed I was just as enrgetic as if I had slept until 16:00-17:00. Not sure if it works the same for everybody but at least it gave me some personal life during night shifts.
Good luck!
Thx for the tip man, but you know how I sleep
If I’d get up after sleeping 5-6hrs I’d completely chrash. Think I’m gonna try to get up alittle early tho so I can have alittlebit of the evening aswell 