My apologies for the recent lack of entries, but I picked up a new job that’ll probably last for a month or two. Why is that significant? Because it’s during the night shift. Suddenly, all that free time I had in the wee hours of the morning is being put to use for someone else’s benefit. Sure, it’s putting some money in my bank account, but what good does it do you? None whatsoever! And for that, you have my sincerest apologies.
I don’t want to blame it entirely on the hours, though—it’s a soul-sapping job. I get home and part of me says, “Let’s write something and make people smile and giggle and possibly urinate all over themselves with all the happiness and joy emanating from the computer screen!” And then the part of me that just walked into the door after many, many hours of work slaps me across the face and says, “You gotta be kidding me! You don’t have any creative juices left tonight! … This morning!”
So what am I left with? Guilt at not having written anything since the beginning of the month. You’d be amazed at how motivating things like shame and humiliation can be. Or maybe you already know, in which case you should probably write a new blog entry, too. In the meantime, I hope I managed to summon up enough juices for one ni—… morning. If you don’t think so, I can take some time off from work to write more. Just fill out your checks to “Shawn Bakken” and I’ll put that money in my bank account instead.
In case you’re wondering about the hours, it’s a strange schedule:
Monday-Thursday, 5:00pm-3:00am (and it takes over half an hour to drive there). Thank God for three-day weekends…
Hey, stranger! Hang in there. I worked overnights (10:30pm to 7am, Sunday through Thursday) for three months. We were ridiculously overpaid, got extra incentives and bonuses for sticking with it, but the worst part that people don’t often consider… Everyone got very, very tired of breakfast foods. We’d hit the local bar after work for ‘kegs & eggs’, but after three months of being asleep while most restaurants were open and being too exhausted to cook… Well, I still can’t eat scrambled eggs.
Well… at least there will rarely be traffic to deal with during those hours?
So what is your sleep schedule like on weekends– do you still sleep during the day and awaken at night, or do you switch back to “normal” mode just for those 3 days?
Nope, not too many cars at that time of the morning.
I sure hope my schedule can adjust during the weekends—I’ve got a soccer game coming up this Sunday at 10:30am.