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For all you 3rd shifters! - zoesmom04

Posted: Nov 15, 2011

Are you guys sticking to your schedule on the weekends or going back to a 'normal' schedule on the weekend? I've been doing this for almost a year from 9p to 5:30a, and it's been working pretty good until the weekend. I want to spend time with my family but mostly I end up sleeping the whole weekend away because I can't adjust my schedule. Any suggestions?

Swinging from night to day and back again...it's hard yo! - Hayseed

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The world keeps turning and everyone expects you to just go right into a "normal" weekend. I tried to do it and failed and my work suffered...which I personally think is unacceptable, but I'm a tool who puts work before family (don't be like me--it will MESS you up!)

You'll find me up on my nights off, dinking around on the computer or watching movies or cleaning house. My husband has always been a night owl too though (kinda how we met)so FOR US it works out okay. Frustrating as heck though to be so exhausted during our normal sleepy time that we just don't want to participate in funsies of friends and family and find we back out of invites more than not.
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3rd shifters - zoesmom04

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I feel the same exactly....too tired to do anything fun anymore. Looking to go to 2nd shift, which I didn't want to do, and impossible to get 1st where I work. I'm going to take a pay cut but for my sanity I think it will be worth it.

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