Daknjak

No question about it. I worked the night shift for about 8 years, and have been working days for 3 years, and I still have those night hours working on my schedule. For instance, right now it is 12:37 am, and I am still not tired even though I work at 8am. I won't really start to get tired till around 2am. The hours I worked really took a toll on my at that time new marriage. My wife worked 1st shift, so I would get home around 7am, stay up till 11 or 12, and then sleep till my wife got home at 5pm. Never got more than 6 hours of sleep, and 4 hours was more or less the norm. It was hell. Fridays were the worst. I usually ended staying up all day, and sleeping at night. It is not natural to change your sleep habits like that.

I did 3rd shift for the extra money when I started working, and I have to tell you, I never got used to it. I was tired all the time. When I was home, when I was working. I worked factory work in the Kohler plant in Kohler WI (bathroom fixtures, faucets, toilets, ets...) I worked the polishing wheels for the brass faucets, and they are nothing more than giant belt sanders on large wheels. I worked with 2 other guys in our "cell" as they were called, and we all at least once fell asleep and put a body part into the wheels. They can take your knee down to the meat (or worse) in less than a second through your pants and anything else.

Now I am rambling. Anyhoo. 3rd shift sucks, no one really understands why you need to sleep when you do, or so much, and if you do it long enough, it is hard to get over it.

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