Top 10 Reservations About Working 3rd Shift:
1. It's in the middle of the night and you have to stay awake.
2. The light-headed haze that hits around 2 or 3am and doesn't leave until the 6am euphoria.
3. Saying "See you tonight!" to your coworkers as you're leaving work... tomorrow sounds much better, even if the math is the same.
4. Getting caught in the trap of thinking you're somehow cheating the systems beause you're working full time and still have ALL DAY LONG to do whatever you want, forgetting that sleep can only be put off so long.
5. Only talking to sleepy people all shift long.
6. Getting lost in the winding, identical halls in the basement and realizing that in addition to not being sure exactly how many elevator shafts there are in this building and that they don't all go through even if they lead to the right floor, you also don't know if one of those endless rows of doors leads into a morgue or not, and what sort of characters to expect to run into.
7. Security guards are a reason to whip around and quickly walk away in the opposite direction when you're alone.
8. Day time people still expect you to be on the same schedule as them and get selfish about your time.
9. When do you do homework?
10. On the few nights you are off (like tonight, for example), other than catch up on a little homework, what are you supposed to do? Sleep sounds like a trick answer: it's hard enough to change your sleep schedule. And it's not like there's THAT much to do by yourself in the middle of the night... other than blog, I guess...
2. The light-headed haze that hits around 2 or 3am and doesn't leave until the 6am euphoria.
3. Saying "See you tonight!" to your coworkers as you're leaving work... tomorrow sounds much better, even if the math is the same.
4. Getting caught in the trap of thinking you're somehow cheating the systems beause you're working full time and still have ALL DAY LONG to do whatever you want, forgetting that sleep can only be put off so long.
5. Only talking to sleepy people all shift long.
6. Getting lost in the winding, identical halls in the basement and realizing that in addition to not being sure exactly how many elevator shafts there are in this building and that they don't all go through even if they lead to the right floor, you also don't know if one of those endless rows of doors leads into a morgue or not, and what sort of characters to expect to run into.
7. Security guards are a reason to whip around and quickly walk away in the opposite direction when you're alone.
8. Day time people still expect you to be on the same schedule as them and get selfish about your time.
9. When do you do homework?
10. On the few nights you are off (like tonight, for example), other than catch up on a little homework, what are you supposed to do? Sleep sounds like a trick answer: it's hard enough to change your sleep schedule. And it's not like there's THAT much to do by yourself in the middle of the night... other than blog, I guess...
Labels: lists, Productivity, reservations, Sleep, work
posted by mags at 11:07 PM
1 Comments:
Maybe we are on the same schedule.... or close to it. I always wondered why your posts come at random hours? I think... I will do the math some time. It's really complicated.
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