3rd shift SUCKS!!!!

[WhataRush]

Any one else out there work third shift weekend jobs. All your friends are out skating bright and early and you just got off a twelve hour shift and are to tired to even move after work. I have every intention of getting out of bed around noon or one but somehow i sleep the day away and when i get up its back to work again for another twelve hours of wishing i was off so i could go skate. I just got all my boards tweeked and ready to ride and havent been able to skate more than an hour or so. I sit at work and read the fish so i can at least read about others who are out rippin it up. Then i get all pumped up and ready to skate and im stuck...at work...Typing useless threads about how i wish i could skate but I cant... So its bac to thread surfing i hope some one out there feels my pain...I guess at least i have a desk job and its slow season two positives

[bean-a-reano]

I used to work 3rd shift, only 8 hours though. I liked it, only one other guy till around 5am ( I got of at 7) Way better than the day gig.

[sniffleless]

Been there. Done that. Don't wish to go back. I thought I was a night person until I did the night shift. 4 am it's time to sleep. Can't sleep well after noon. It's time to do stuff after that. I feel your pain. I do.

[WhataRush]

Amen it eventually starts to feel like your body breaks down after so long i just feel unhealthy and and a sickly pale white. i sleep to long and still wake up feeling like crap. When i do have a day off gotta wait till my Soon to be wife gets off work so she can take over for me on watching our son. I cant wait till hes old enough to skate then its alll good. All day downhill jam sessions. I only got to wait another 8-9 years. sigh....

[msk]

I spent several years doing newspaper delivery in the mid 80s. 2am-6am, 7 days a week. Then worked retail (weekends, especially busy around holidays) until about 3 years ago. Now I've got the 8:30-5 M-F gig, and I'll never go back...

[nick]

I know the feeling. Even though I was on night shift for four months, I felt like I could never get my body on track with my new schedule. My motivation to do anything outside of work skydived and the days felt sooo much shorter. This past summer I went with the early shift (6am-2:30pm) and it was perfect. Getting up early does suck, but being home and having from 3-11 to myself is wonderful.

[SpeedFiend]

My new is one is 6.30-2.30.
Best shift yet. Getting up at 4.30am sucks but I have so much light after work to skate.

[brainfartalerts]

3rd can suck or be a god-send. Have to figure out how to get the timing right and maybe invert your schedule?
Treat it like a day where you sleep before work and party afterwards. Will screw with you a bit at first but stay up right after work and go do a couple of hours of skating, excercise, chores, whatever.
May only have a chance to meat (hah, I said meet) your friends in passing buy you and your body will be much better for it.
24's can be a stone cold MALE though.

Last call of the day was bright and early ass-crack Sunday morning for a guy flat out of his mind and fighting us every step of the way. Took six of us to restrain him, get him bagged and delivered. Had to prune some monster claws on the guy with trauma sheers to keep him from ripping us up. Non-stop screaming "STOP ME GODDAMNIT - STOP ME!!!!" at the top of his lungs all the while farting, shitting and foaming at the mouth.

Came off of a long 24 from Sat - Sun then had to go right into the house to work on getting ready for geusts.

Had just enough time to squeeze in a couple mile run never mind getting to clear off the ramp and try to polish up rusty non-existent skills.

The moment my head hit the pillow last night, I was gone.