Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Night Shift - it's a fair bitch ain't it?

Have enough time to go days, but that would mean change of area.

Like my area, no drama.....could be better, could be worse.
Am gonna stay on 2nds a while longer.

I can deer hunt in the mornings. Only real advantage.

I did 4am - 4 pm for 8 months and I had enough. Trying to go to bed when everyone is awake at home and trying to wake up at 3am was not for me. I found another job for the same pay which is Monday through Friday 8:15 am to 4:45 pm. Find something with better hours, it will make you happier.

Well at least it isn’t spring creek where they have mandatory overtime..

Night shift is not cool if you're part of a household that keeps regular folks hours.

Don't recommend hiring on as train crew if you can't swing a night schedule. Once your 12 hours rest is up (10 1/2 really) phone turns into a grenade - pull the pin on that fugger and wait for it to blow. Know its coming, just don't know when. Might be noon today, might be 2 AM Saturday...

ya i hated night shift. we did rotating in the service on either 2 or 3 month cycles. i never got used to mid-8. i could do swings but mids killed me.

Been working shift work for 34 years . 4 on 4 off . 12 hour shifts . Rotate days and nights . Never really bothered me . Nights has its advantages. All the people with crazy ideas are home sleeping.

We are diurnal animals. We are supposed to be up and about during the daytime, and sleep at night.
If we get that swapped around, it causes all kinds of ill effects. I am talking about increases in divorce, heart attacks and strokes, all kinds of problems.

I was a team driver over the road for 2 1/2 years and that was really tough. On Monday I would drive from 8am to 8pm, and by Friday I was driving from 7 pm until 7 am.
That really messed with my head.

Full-time night shift supervisor since 1986. No, you never get used to it. When I hear day workers talk about being tired, I tell them, "Hell, I've been tired since '86." It worked well for me when I was the Chief of our vol. fire company. Always available during the day when most members were at work. But it does go against nature.

I no longer work night shift as I changed jobs...and man am I loving the change!

Nighttime is for drinkin', fuuckin' and sleepin'.....



Ace







(PS, I hate heifer calving season...)

This. After and IF you get acclimated to third or night shift, it's not a bad shift. I've been working it for four years now and see more of my family than when I worked daywork. I've got a great boss, a Black guy who just worry's about getting the work done. When the work is done and no more fires to put out, you can sit down and rest. Daywork is for the drama queens in management. We don't take any breaks during the night, work straight thru. We save all our time for end of shift. Sometimes we can get a 1/2 hour nap, sometimes a 2 hour nap before we drive home. Driving home and not falling asleep is the hard part till you work out your own system that works for you. Now rotating shifts, that's a whole different ballgame. My hat's off to the guys that make that work.

Sorry Sam but you seem to have jumbled up the words,

"Night time is for fucking drinking and sleeping'.


Now we old married fellas can read it.

Hard to argue with that

I worked shift work for 40 years, 3 years were 8 hour shifts....the other 37 years were 12 hour rotating shifts! I never did get much sleep when working nights, 5 hours being a good days sleep. But, I got a lot of work done around the house when I wasn’t sleeping! memtb

Boom Boom
Whatcha doin, if ya don’t mind? Not building ice roads? Kinda sounds like gigolo hours! 😆😉

No kidding. Or Goose. We get all the OT we can want down here but it ain’t mandatory.

I always enjoyed night work.

Didn't have to put up with front office and got paid more to boot.

Did that for 3 or 4 years back in the 70's.

No mandatory at goose, not yet anyhow..

The only time I worked night shift was when we wrecked a critical piece of rotating equipment in the refinery. I was the one to make it right. Short of those crisis none, That said, my Father worked weekly rotating shifts, days, swings and graves for years without a complaint that I ever heard growing up. Maybe he biotched to my Mother but we never heard it. Just doing what needed to be done raising a family of five.

Driv'n from A to B to C to A, repeat next night, repeat, repeat, repeat..... Sometimes mix it up and go A to C to B to C to A. At least there's spectacular scenery...