Anyone doing shift work?

[QF3 MROCP]

I'm on the Saturday midnight to 6 am radio watch this weekend. Anyone got some ideas on how to handle the situation. Last time I was a hero, it hit around 3pm on the Sunday and it was good night dear - crash!!

On the positive side, feel free to give me a sitcom report for the log....

and remember for Easter.....

6P's - Proper Planning Prevents Poor Phishing Performance

QF3 Out

[Bros]

Did shift work for 30 years. The first night shift was hard going and the last one 30 yrs later was as well and all those in between.

Now I rarely see the sun come up.

[Kleyny]

I'm a shift worker I can go from say 6am start one day to a 8pm start the next. not good on the body i tell ya.

the best advice i can give you for that shift is the night before stay up as long as you can and get up early. this make you tired so at about early afternoon you need to go to sleep. try and stay up until say 3pm that way you can get some good sleep before you get up and go to work at midnight.
trust me it works i done a few midnight ot mid day shifts and it really helps

another good tip is use alfoil in your windows this blackens even the brightest room.

good luck

neil

[Rosie M]

:) Hello Bros,
Have not done the graveyard shift for 30 years, however I have done a couple in 20 years nursing within the aged care industry. Shift work plays with your mind, not to mention your social life.
Rosie.:)

[Ally Jack]

Mate
I do day/night shift work and the worst time is 3-4am. If you can move around a bit and shake off that sleepiness, you be right. Caffiene works well too, but take it only when your really tired. We had a new guy start with our crew and he was into the red bulls about 9pm one night(we work 7pm-7am), he was gone by midnight.

I'm used to this now so it doesn't effect me as much, if I remember i'll send you a message there if you have internet access, I'm on nights all weekend.


Ally Jack

[Daamu]

Hi qf3,
Another shift worker here. I alternate between days and nights quite regularly and find on my first night shift I head down for a sleep around 1200 noon and sleep for about 4 hrs. I work 6 till 6 and find that a 4 hr kiddy nap in the middle of the day helps out heaps. On my second night shift though I go to sleep as soon as I get home and clean up by 700am and sleep most of the day.
This is what works for me.
Hope this helps

Dale

[Roughasguts]

For the past 9 years I have been doing 2- 12 hour days followed by 2- 12 hour nights, Plus I have to drive 110 km to work and 110 Km home after every shift, sometimes taking 2 hours a trip.

Forget the coffee, a bag of lollies can help to keep you awake, if your not planning on shift work for to long. But the best thing I find on the way home is drink water and plenty of it, Your so uncomfortable busting for a P!ss theres no chance of falling asleep.

[aussiefool]

Yep I have done it for the last 8 years now. First of all forget about any form of social life..... not going to happen. I personally head off to bed around 2ish sleep to 10pm get up have a coffee and toast and go to work.
The hardest thing is for me is on my day off I'm still up at 1 am wide awake and wanting to go for a fish :)

[Coontakinta]

When I was on the night shift, used to sleep for the 40min we had for lunch, dinner, breackfast, what ever u want to call it at 2am. Helped get me through the worst of it.

Probably not suitable to you though!

[FNQCairns]

I tried it years ago didn't do it well at all! never done it since, feel for your predicament!

best of luck with it!

cheers fnq

[Foxy4]

Hahaha You will handle it for sure.... I have done heaps of the same shifts over there on both the Saturday and Sunday mornings O Dark watch...... 2300 through to 0700 next morn.. No problem.....

[ss--ss]

Yes I was doing 12 hour shifts for 10 years. It affects your health pretty badly..But has the advantage of getting up to 5 days off in a row. I havn't done t for the past 2 years & I feel much better now..

[Roughasguts]

Yes I was doing 12 hour shifts for 10 years. It affects your health pretty badly..But has the advantage of getting up to 5 days off in a row. I havn't done t for the past 2 years & I feel much better now..


Yup that's why I do it.

I get 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 days of in a row, it's pretty sweet.
But your right it screws with your health.

I use to go on a 4-5 day drinking binge.
Or smoke for 24 hours in a row between shifts, but at least smoke for 20 hours a day.
Or just eat junk all through out the night when I shouldn't be eating anything.

So now I've given up the booze, and the smokes, and now i'm on a low carb diet to get me weight down I gained through not smoking.
As well I'm on the mountain bike, Kyak, and a few weights and chasing me kids around the place. Think I'm slowly getting the body back in order' it's taken me 3.5 years to give up me vices.

[Giffo7]

QF3

I have been a Fireman for 19 years and loved shift.Going fishing on a monday when all is back at work is great.on day work now and its different but good for the family life !

Giffo

[QF3 MROCP]

well I've started and already we have some radio activity... had a sleep from 15:30 - 20:00.

O the dark Watch starts!!

Thanks all for the great suggestions...

[Ally Jack]

QF3,

How did you go?

AllyJack

[QF3 MROCP]

QF3,

How did you go?

AllyJack

WELL......

As you can see this is the first time I have got online since the last thread. The start went quick as we had a medivac and a tow job that lasted up till 02:00 - Then every one left me for their bed's at home!!

Kept pacing up and down the carpet, retuned the tv channels, and kept an eye over the car park for any human movement around the cars and trailers. That lasted till around 03:00. Had my first coffee for the morning. Hoped on AusFish and no one awake..

By about 03:30 my first boat was coming back into he boat ramp and after that one, a number of other in and out vessel movements were happening. By 04:37, my first radio call for a vessel wanting to be logged in for the day, returning 10:00. After that one, time seamed to go quickly and my first team mate turned up at 05:40. Got the weather reports printed out and handed over the radio room at 06:20 - in the car and home in 3 minutes. Hello to the wife and had a couple of hours sleep. A/hole of neighbour has a sudden liking to an FM station and wants the whole street including me the hear it.

My next task task is the find a scanner just to bugger him up.

Stayed awake until around 22:00 and had a good night's sleep, up at 08:00 this morning for a 40km bike ride....

The lesson I learned is to keep busy during the night and don't get absorbed into the crap TV. I also focussed on it being only 6 hours, so I tried to treat is a working day and keep to my usual eating routine - instead, a light dinner around 09:30, lunch at 01:30 and Weetbix and fruit at 05:30. Next snack at midday on Sunday.

All good fun and now I really appreciate how it can bugger up a "normal life" for many of you. People of the forgotten night..

Peter

[trueblue]

Pete, you make it sound so much more interesting than it really is....

Good onya mate.

Cheers

Mick

[QF3 MROCP]

I have too. I don't want to scare aware any potential new active members

[Roughasguts]

The only thing good about night shifts are all the so called bosses that earn the big bucks are in bed. And haven't got anything do do with how you spend your time the decisions you make and ummmmm time you spend on the net.

[Bros]

The only thing good about night shifts are all the so called bosses that earn the big bucks are in bed. And haven't got anything do do with how you spend your time the decisions you make and ummmmm time you spend on the net.

They used to monitor our time on the net and some got please explains from IT as to why they should not have their internet access suspended.

I was a boss and I worked night shift like the rest however we had a good manager who would stop any loss of internet access provided people did the right thing.

The other pet thing from management that came up from time to time was why the shift workers used so many torch batteries. It didn't occur to them we worked at night although some went home.

[Roughasguts]

Yeah I'm pretty sure they monitor the time i'm on the net but not so much as the content! that for some reason worries them a lot more.

But i'm a good boy.

[Bros]

Yeah I'm pretty sure they monitor the time i'm on the net but not so much as the content! that for some reason worries them a lot more.

But i'm a good boy.

Get into the porno and you would be certain to lose access as all companies monitor this in both web sites and email.

[reidy]

15 years of being grumpy and stuffed (shift work) in heavy industry.Been out of that game for around 6 years now (in industrial retail now) and have my life back.
Would i have another crack at shift NO BLOODY WAY.
Cheers
Reidy

[sid_fishes]

started afternoon shift 2 pm till 2-30 am when in my apprecentship 2nd yr and loved it left work, straight to the beach couples of hours sleep , in the water for a surf home by 8 , sleep till 1230 mum cooked lunch . i loved it. then as i got older the ttimes changed seemed i was starting work earlier in the morning and finishing later in the night, and to this day i still only sleep about 4 cheers ian

[stick]

1st thought is how to get rid of the neighbours walking hand bag of a dog
2nd is how to include their mongrel kids
Sleep deprivation is torture. Plays on your (my) mind a bit doesnt it