Night Shift Sucks

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Will Leavitt

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Well I've finally gone back to work after recovering from my surgeries. We're on nights until May. :rolleyes: I'm only able to really work on knives during the weekend because I'm sleeping 10 hours instead of my normal 6-7 a night. I've tried getting up earlier to get out there and work but wind up just wandering around the shop picking stuff up and wondering what in the hell to do with it. :yawn:

Ah well....
 
I Know how you feel Will....I have went back to work at the scrap yard now that I have started feeling better and it seems that when I get home I just want to go to bed and sleep.I also get the weekend for the shop but just cant get going again...I hope this is just temporary and I get back to being me and get some shop time going again soon...Hope you do also,at least we both are feeling better...

Bruce
 
I know the feeling. I just spent a week on my feet teaching down in Los Angeles, and don't feel like getting out into the shop. However, I have the OKCA show coming up and it's got me really motivated right now. There's nothing like a little self-inflicted deadline to get a person going. My business cards are at the printer, with the proof signed off on and should be ready next week. I finally got a website up and running. I need to upload a bunch of photos to it, but the knives for the show come first.

Maybe signing up for a summer knife show would get you going. It's just a thought.

I wonder, what motivates the rest of you to get busy in the shop?
 
It's not that I'm not motivated to work in the shop, it's that my brain isn't up to fully functioning and so I just wander aimlessly about. I guess I could make a punch list to complete but heck that's like working and not what I'm in the shop for.

31 years of night shift???? Hell no. Before I started with Hyundai I was plant manager for a cabinet factory, a year of 84 hour weeks, night shift, overworked and under resourced on top of being salaried made me leave there rather quickly.
 
I feel your pain guys. I worked graveyards most of my adult working career (about 12 years worth total) , until my current job. I'm faced with the prospect of having to go to it again. After being away from it for 5 years, I don't know how it's gonna affect my life. I'm not looking forward to it, since my body has always dictated that I'm an afternoon shift guy. Sucks. -Matt-
 
This is my last week of shift work after 22 years. :D

For the last 15 years of my career I've been a Shift Supervisor in power plants working 12 hr rotating shifts. After a bunch of medical probs like high blood pressure, insomnia, dizziness, blood sugar all over the map, minor memory loss, tbl. concentrating, and a general blah feeling started surfacing, my Doc highly recommended I quit working shift work. She said a career of shift work will take ten years off your life! Feeling like crap all the time certainly doesn't help the knifemaking either. I really had to push myself to get going at times. Were's the fun in that?

On the doc's orders, I haven't worked nights in three weeks, and I feel a whole lot better already. My blood pressure has dropped, my blood sugar is back to normal, I've dropped a few pounds, and I have twice the energy. Even my wife said I was more...robust! HA! I just accepted a position with another energy company as a Station Manager nearby. It starts in 2 weeks. No more nights for this ol boy! I'm leaving that to the young bucks from now on.

Scott
 
I use to work nights and did not like third shift, but did like 2th shift. But in time when on the day shift and I liked that being a family man. I know how you feel about that. :yawn:
 
I on the other love third shift :thumbup: it fits my schedule perfectly and ever since I stopped trying to make myself fit a "normal" schedule I've been feeling much better :D
 
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