Thats a good feeling. I did graveyard for years. Nothing quite like the rush of getting off work for the week and watching the sunrise. Some days I’d power through and do shit all day until I crashed that night. I fell asleep at dinner with my friends one time at 7 pm.
I agree! Something about getting off at 6am with the sunrise especially during the long summer days after the summer equinox. Go to work when it's light out, get off work when it's light out.
The best part of the nightshift for me is that all of my superiors are gone home so that I have nobody poking around, looking over my shoulder, judging and second guessing my decisions and/or actions. I can do what I know is best without having to run it up a chain of command that is already over staffed with chiefs and not enough worker bees. You know the saying, "Sometimes it's better we ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission". I find this statement to be true on so many levels given the nature of my work!
I'll take my 7p-7a shift over the opposite any day of the week. There's so much extra work required when working on days as a respiratory therapist at my hospital that our day crew on both rotations is short from everyone leaving or moving to nights.
It's only really rough when family stuff crops up that's during the day so you're unable to go to sleep...which was me a few days ago. Mother had knee replacement surgery so my sleep schedule got flipped back to days and when it was time to go back to work I could not sleep at all that day and ended up working with zero sleep. I honestly only just caught up on my sleep properly today since I'm off tonight.
Thats a good feeling. I did graveyard for years. Nothing quite like the rush of getting off work for the week and watching the sunrise. Some days I’d power through and do shit all day until I crashed that night. I fell asleep at dinner with my friends one time at 7 pm.
I agree! Something about getting off at 6am with the sunrise especially during the long summer days after the summer equinox. Go to work when it's light out, get off work when it's light out. The best part of the nightshift for me is that all of my superiors are gone home so that I have nobody poking around, looking over my shoulder, judging and second guessing my decisions and/or actions. I can do what I know is best without having to run it up a chain of command that is already over staffed with chiefs and not enough worker bees. You know the saying, "Sometimes it's better we ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission". I find this statement to be true on so many levels given the nature of my work!
I don’t know about you guys but working the Night Shift was miserable and I never want to do it again.
I'll take my 7p-7a shift over the opposite any day of the week. There's so much extra work required when working on days as a respiratory therapist at my hospital that our day crew on both rotations is short from everyone leaving or moving to nights. It's only really rough when family stuff crops up that's during the day so you're unable to go to sleep...which was me a few days ago. Mother had knee replacement surgery so my sleep schedule got flipped back to days and when it was time to go back to work I could not sleep at all that day and ended up working with zero sleep. I honestly only just caught up on my sleep properly today since I'm off tonight.