Late Night Rambling of a Third Shift Worker Number 2.

Well I have been working third shift for almost an entire month and I have come to realize some of the good things and some of the bad things and I thought that I would share them with you.   I will start with the good things because I like to start positive.

Good Things

1. Lots of alone time- Not sure if this is true about all third shift jobs but the one I have it is I spend every shift alone minus about two hours some at the start of the night  and some at the end and every once and a while an individual who can’t sleep.   What is nice about this is that I like that I have time to sit and think about things that I am doing things I need to do and things that I need to not do any longer.

2.  Interesting People- Again not sure how across the board this is but the people I do meet or get to deal with all have very interesting stories to tell (and if you know Randy and my self at all you know that random people all ways share there stories with us) me and they are just excited to have people to talk to and will carry the weight of the conversation for you.  I have had to deal with what I believe to be a prostitute that was coming to the hotel to lets say provide her services to some one.  I had an opportunity this past weekend to deal with a couple of high school students trying to rent a room so that they could provide services to each other, and tell them that I can’t rent them a room because they were under 21 and that they need to think about why they are doing what they are doing and that if it is not for a good reason then maybe they need to rethink threr plan.  I don’t know if I stop them form making a mistake or not but I got to have a conversation at least.

Bad Things

1. Days Off- The hardest adjustment I have had to make is not sleeping during the day that is actually pretty easy when your tired you sleep a lot easier than you would think.  It has been coming up with things to do on my nights off when I am done hanging out with my friends around midnight or 1am and 7:30am or so when I am ready to sleep.  What do I do I don’t know yet I have been just sitting at home watching TV which is hard do to the new puppy in my life that wakes up easily.

2. Eating- This has been the second hardest adjustment my eating schedule, I wake up everyday about 2pm and I for some reason have never been hungry when I wake up so I will usually be hungry around 3pm or 4pm which is so close to dinner i just wait.  By dinner I am so hungry that I eat a huge meal and am not hungry again until about 6 am which is when I get my bagel from our wonderful breakfast bar in the hotel.  Then I go to sleep and wake up and do it all again. This stinks because I only eat one meal a day which I am told is not healthy.

Anyway I just thought I would give you guys an incite in to what I have been think while you all sleep and I work.