3rd shift workers: when do you sleep?

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Mar 29, 2006 | 04:23 AM

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oldgoat49

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I work midnight to 7:00. Get home shower and have breakfast and usually go to bed until 1:00 or 3:00. Lay back down at about 10:00pm for about an hour and get back up to go to work. 3rd is really nice for not having to fight traffic, and I can get things done after I get home while still dirty and then clean up or if I need to go get something can do that without much hassle. I have known some that plain couldn't work 3rd though.

Mar 29, 2006 | 05:29 AM

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I miss working 3rd 11 Pm to 7 Am. I work 1st shift now.I was single with no kids, when I worked 3rd. I would go to sleep around 3 Pm get up at 8:30 Pm. I loved being able to get all my errands done while everyone else was at thier day shift jobs. I loved the no lines or getting stuck in the Am rat race to work.

Mar 29, 2006 | 02:31 PM

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Mike P.

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If I'm working nights for a long time, I usually sleep in the afternoon and get up 2 or 3 hours before work just like I would for days. You can get your running around, go to government offices, etc. all done that way.

On evenings, I try to go to bed 1 or 2 hours after I get home and do any running around before work.

I prefer days, but the 6pm-6am 10% pay differential is nice.

Mar 29, 2006 | 02:39 PM

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I worked 3rd shift at Wal-Mart for about 9 months. First 3-4 months were nightmare. I would get off work at 7 a.m., go home, shower, get ready for school and go to school from 8 a.m. until noon. Then drive home, get some sleep, and go to school from 4 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Go home again, get some sleep and go to work at 10 p.m.

But that was just for summer. When I didn't have school, I would come home around 7:15 a.m., take a shower, spend about hour on internet and then go to sleep. And I would wake up whenever, sometimes even 15 minutes before work.

Mar 29, 2006 | 04:39 PM

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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg

I work 12 hour night shifts, three days one week and four the next, so I have every other Fri-Sat-Sun off. I go in at 8 pm and get off at 8 am. Most of the time when I get home I will be up til around noon, then get up at 5:30-6pm and get around for work. Days off I try to stay up long as possible so I can sleep at night. Never really had any trouble with my routine, but once in awhile I will crash pretty hard and sleep for 8 to 10 hours.

Mar 29, 2006 | 09:50 PM

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websthes

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sometimes we have a job we have to do at night and we'll work from 8pm - 8am. i'll go to sleep soon as i got home, just eat supper for breakfast and go to work.

Apr 3, 2006 | 08:59 AM

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Birdhunter1

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When I was on midnights I liked to go to sleep anywhere from 2-5 pm and get up about 9:30 pm and go to work, I worked 11 pm to 7 am. On my off days I'd get tired around 3 pm and get a second wind about 7 pm and couldn't sleep at 11 pm.

I've been on evenings (3 pm to 11 pm) since about Christmas of 05, I can go to sleep just fine not long after I get home and I love gettign up at 6 am so this shift is pretty nice. But the last month or so (ironic since I have been on this shift since Christmas) I will wake up anywhere between 2-4 am (usually in the 0300 hour) and I get right out of bed and go on about my morning business. Only thing my wife and I can make sense of it is that that is about the time I'd eat lunch when I was on midnights.

Apr 4, 2006 | 07:32 AM

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OzFTrucker

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Worked nights on and off for the last 12 years, worked half and full nights while still at school, wnet into the mines when I left school and have been working 12hour nights since then, everything from 2day/2nigh/40ff to what I'm on atm which is 7night/7day/7off, takes about 1 hr each way to the mine and I start the shift at 6am/pm so I get home at about 7am jump on the 'puter for an hour os so then off to bed about 8, usually up by 3 but sometimes 4 if I'm tired but also sometimes as early as 12 if I have to do something or can't sleep. When it is mid summer I come home, have 6 or so beers and then sleep like a baby till 4. Maybe now going away from nights back to 5on/20ff 12hr days, not the best time to do though cos its coming into winter which means cold mornings out here.