Night Owl or Early Bird?

[Hokie_YJ]

Pass. That sounds terrible. I've never understood why companies switch between days and nights. I would always feel tired and mentally off.

I’ve been working this schedule for 10 years now. The last 4 with kids. You just kinda get used to feeling like shit I guess. Lol. I would 100% work straight nights if I could. But I would be a lot harder now with kids. I sleep way better when I’m working nights than I do on days. There were times in my younger days I worked 45+ night shifts in a row, and felt great.

The time off is nice if we actually get it. I’m only scheduled 14 out of every 28 days, and supposed to get 7 straight off every 28 days too. But we rarely get them all off. When I started this schedule most of my days off were spent in the garage building my buggy. Now all my days off are spent chasing two rowdy as shit boys around the house while my wife works, and the only time I get in the garage is that hour before work on my day shifts. I’m basically a full time stay at home dad, with a full time job on nights and weekends. Lol.

 

[McCracken]

Growing up I was a night owl. Hated morning. Work and life have now conditioned me to be both. Normally I'm up at 4:45 in the morning for day shift.

 

[1-tonmudder]

Night owl for sure.Im not usually up before 9 but its not unusual for me to be in the garage at 10 pm.I have alot of sleep issues,I just cant get my mind to turn off.Jake has to be on air at 5am and alot of times I hear his alarm go off.

 

[Futbalfantic]

I just don’t get sleepy. Absolute night owl. I can stay awake for 20-30 hours no problem. But have no trouble sleeping either. Waking up is a bitch though.

 

[Loganwayne]

Alarm is set for 6. Dogs usually have me up by 530 545. They go out I shower. Then we spend 25-30 minutes relaxing or working on some training. Before I finish getting ready.

 

[CLRracer]

I've seen a few of you say it, so I'll ask: how many of you do "stuff" before going to work? Like Logan just mentioned "30 min to relax or work on training." I was always a get up, get dressed, hit the road kinda person. If I had time to get up and do something before work then I could've slept longer lol.

Duane

 

[BIGWOODY]

5:50 my eyes open every morning, doesn't matter if I went to bed at 8pm or 2am. It's rare I'm up past 11pm.

 

[jeepin' jen]

Give me alllll the sleep!!! During the week, I'm usually up by 5:30am to get ready for work & crawling back in bed at 9:30pm. Pulling all-dayers is rough

 

[jeepinmatt]

If I had time to get up and do something before work then I could've slept longer lol.

Quoted. For. Truth.

 

[McCracken]

I've seen a few of you say it, so I'll ask: how many of you do "stuff" before going to work? Like Logan just mentioned "30 min to relax or work on training." I was always a get up, get dressed, hit the road kinda person. If I had time to get up and do something before work then I could've slept longer lol.

Duane

I usually just surf. I have to be gone at 6 at the absolute latest. If I get up by 4:30 then I've got time to get ready and the surf the webs. This is usually the only time I have to check on anything.

 

[orange150]

I've seen a few of you say it, so I'll ask: how many of you do "stuff" before going to work? Like Logan just mentioned "30 min to relax or work on training." I was always a get up, get dressed, hit the road kinda person. If I had time to get up and do something before work then I could've slept longer lol.

Duane

Like previously stated, I get up early enough to have an hour to myself after walking the dog. I either piddle on something in the garage, or if I don’t have any projects going I’ll just chill on the couch and watch YouTube… by myself.

 

[trevoringle]

No night owl or early bird, just tired. I also currently work 12 hour swing shifts plus training on my days off sometimes. I go in tomorrow night so fri-Monday night get off Tuesday morning, training Wednesday, off Thursday Friday-Sunday day shift off Monday then Tuesday-Thursday night then get off Friday morning. It’s sucks and if this becomes permanent I’m quitting. On my normal schedule I’m an early bird for sure, even on days off.

 

[drkelly]

I've seen a few of you say it, so I'll ask: how many of you do "stuff" before going to work? Like Logan just mentioned "30 min to relax or work on training." I was always a get up, get dressed, hit the road kinda person. If I had time to get up and do something before work then I could've slept longer lol.

Duane

I don’t do anything exciting before work. I get up early (5am) with my wife since she leaves the house at 5:50am. I get up and take the dogs out, feed them plus the cat, unload the dishwasher, make coffee for my wife, eat breakfast, pack my lunch and my son’s lunch, shit, shave and shower, make the bed, typically do some laundry, clean up the kitchen from breakfast, reload the dishwasher, pack up my computer if I didn’t from the night before, take the trash out if it needs it, take the dogs out again, then leave. Sometimes I do other random small things too if I have time.

 

[mommucked]

For many decades I worked from 8 to 4, getting up at 630 and working mon-fri week. For the last 7 yrs. Was 9-5 and sometimes working on the weekend, still 40 hrs. For 5 months I've had to come in @ 6am 2 days out of the 5. I have to get up @ 4:30am on those days. It's messing my sleep bad, I never took naps before, now I do. My sleep is a all jacked up, waking up about 2/3 am and I can't sleep so I get up and watch tv/online for an hour or so and go back to the bed and sleep. Some days I have brain fog all day when I'm not tired! I'm seriously thinking about getting another job w regular hours.

 

[spraypaintman]

I don’t do anything exciting before work. I get up early (5am) with my wife since she leaves the house at 5:50am. I get up and take the dogs out, feed them plus the cat, unload the dishwasher, make coffee for my wife, eat breakfast, pack my lunch and my son’s lunch, shit, shave and shower, make the bed, typically do some laundry, clean up the kitchen from breakfast, reload the dishwasher, pack up my computer if I didn’t from the night before, take the trash out if it needs it, take the dogs out again, then leave. Sometimes I do other random small things too if I have time.

Danny you are are so lazy! Wow such a low life haha jk

 

[Chris_Keziah]

I guess my post time manifests my answer. Im sitting on the porch playing with night mode on my camera and researching lathe specs.
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This Samsung is ok, but nowhere near as good as the Google Pixel 2.

Anyway, back to topic. Studies show that early birds think they are better than night owls, and night owls don't care.

Hell my dark mode makes it look like a hr before sunset. But it really depends on the amount of moon light and artificial light.

This was at 11ish a couple weeks ago.

 

[Hokie_YJ]

No night owl or early bird, just tired. I also currently work 12 hour swing shifts plus training on my days off sometimes. I go in tomorrow night so fri-Monday night get off Tuesday morning, training Wednesday, off Thursday Friday-Sunday day shift off Monday then Tuesday-Thursday night then get off Friday morning. It’s sucks and if this becomes permanent I’m quitting. On my normal schedule I’m an early bird for sure, even on days off.

Where do you work? That’s my exact schedule. After the Thursday night shift I’m off the weekend, then work Monday-Thursday days and the hopefully get the 7 days off until I start back on Friday night.

I’m an Electrical & Instrumentation tech in a huge chemical plant.

 

[YotaOnRocks]

Where do you work? That’s my exact schedule. After the Thursday night shift I’m off the weekend, then work Monday-Thursday days and the hopefully get the 7 days off until I start back on Friday night.

I’m an Electrical & Instrumentation tech in a huge chemical plant.

Got to be Eastman, that place is it's own city.

 

[Hokie_YJ]

Got to be Eastman, that place is it's own city.

Yep. It is. It’s got 4 cafeterias, 3 gyms, two bank branches, and a boot store. It’s quickly becoming a city you don’t want to be in though. Lol.

Have you worked there? I’ve been there 15 years in June.

 

[YotaOnRocks]

Yep. It is. It’s got 4 cafeterias, 3 gyms, two bank branches, and a boot store. It’s quickly becoming a city you don’t want to be in though. Lol.

Have you worked there? I’ve been there 15 years in June.

My boss worked there previously and I work with Jim Speicher from Emerson frequently. Actually doing some training with him week after next, down in Charlotte.

 

[Hokie_YJ]

My boss worked there previously and I work with Jim Speicher from Emerson frequently. Actually doing some training with him week after next, down in Charlotte.

I don’t recognize that name, but I may have seen him in passing. The only Emerson guys I’m familiar with is Chip Heard and Bob McConnell. I’m just a lowly working stiff though. I don’t get much time with the factory guys, or much training for that matter. I just have to wing it when stuff tears up at 2:00 in the morning. I’ll either get lucky and fix it, or make sure no one can ever fix it. Lol.

I’m very familiar with Emerson/Rosemount transmitters though. Most of the plants I’m responsible for run mostly on them with a few oddball instruments here and there.

 

[rockcity]

I don’t recognize that name, but I may have seen him in passing. The only Emerson guys I’m familiar with is Chip Heard and Bob McConnell. I’m just a lowly working stiff though. I don’t get much time with the factory guys, or much training for that matter. I just have to wing it when stuff tears up at 2:00 in the morning. I’ll either get lucky and fix it, or make sure no one can ever fix it. Lol.

I’m very familiar with Emerson/Rosemount transmitters though. Most of the plants I’m responsible for run mostly on them with a few oddball instruments here and there.

So y’all are jacklegs responsible for all my Rosemount instruments arriving all jacked up and delaying us 2 months on startup???

 

[Hokie_YJ]

So y’all are jacklegs responsible for all my Rosemount instruments arriving all jacked up and delaying us 2 months on startup???

Not I. Lol. I just work on them, or replace them, when they go crazy in the middle of the night. Or some dumb operator screws them up. My favorite is in the winter when they’re afraid the process will freeze up and they put a steam hose directly on the electronic head, rather than on the manifold. I’ve walked up on them with all the blue paint literally melted off of them and the varnish from the boards puddled inside the lid. And they still don’t understand why they’re not working. Apparently they were afraid the milliamps would freeze. Lol.

 

[anvilrubi]

Most of the time I’m up around 5am, I go to sleep anywhere between 11-1

 

[Wes]

I’m a contracted instructor on Ft Jackson. I’m at work when the students are at work. My schedule changes at the drop of a hat. If you’ve been in or around the military, the good ideas are abundant. Sometimes I go in at 7am and I’m done by lunch, sometimes it’s all day. It’s literally event dependent. I went in at 1230 am and worked until 6am to support a training event. Many times I’m scheduled To be off, and then someone has a good idea that’s more “efficient” and I’m heading into work to teach a class. I ain’t complaining. I love the job, but last minute changes are a pain in the anus when you live 40 minutes away and they change training by an hour.