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I've just recently returned to the early shift after a hiatus on nights. This means waking up at 0430 every morning so I can be in the office and sitting at my desk scowling at my computer by around 0530. The streets and traffic are a strange beast that early in the day, a combination of last night's dedicated drunks still hanging on and all the other early risers wandering around in their fugue state. To accomplish this task, I also have to be in bed around 9 every night and then I drive myself crazy continually waking up and checking the clock to calculate how much sleep time I have remaining. I can't be the only person who does this. This is a thread for other goons who get up early like me to tell their stories.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:08
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Too close to home man 
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Feb 22, 2017 15:10
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I haven't slept for days.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:27
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I claw my way to waking in the dark hours of the morning, where it is safe. Here I woke when the sun had already risen for the first time in many weeks, and it alarmed me.
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Feb 22, 2017 15:49
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I piss outside every morning on some rocks. Watch your step 
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Feb 22, 2017 16:38
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Hardawn posted:I piss outside every morning on some rocks. Watch your step Pissing outside owns. Every morning I let the dogs out, light a smoke, and enjoy a nice morning wiz outside in the cool air and it's awesome.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:06
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That schedule sounds loving horrible OP, I'd rather kill myself than go through that every week day.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:08
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new phone who dis posted:I drive myself crazy continually waking up and checking the clock to calculate how much sleep time I have remaining. I have normal hours but I also do this. If the clock shows that I have less than an hour left I pretty much can't fall back asleep because my brain and/or body are broken and stupid I guess.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:11
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it's rad when you occasionally have like a week of working early and can commute at like 120mph in the open roads
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Feb 22, 2017 17:12
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I get up at 430 to row boats in the cold wet and dark. All those early morning joggers can suck it. Also I want to die this morning.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:12
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a bone to pick posted:That schedule sounds loving horrible OP, I'd rather kill myself than go through that every week day. If the money is right it's completely worth it.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:12
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Honky Dong Country posted:If the money is right it's completely worth it. Yeah that's all anyone bases their life decisions on, time and money, its really sick, makes me want to kill myself even harder.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:14
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goons love suicide because it's the only activity they can afford
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Feb 22, 2017 17:17
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a bone to pick posted:Yeah that's all anyone bases their life decisions on, time and money, its really sick, makes me want to kill myself even harder. I would agree if weekends and days off didn't exist. But I also only run a schedule like in the OP when I'm under contract in spring/fall except I do it six days a week, 12 hrs a day. Once I land a permanent gig I'll mostly be working 5:30-4:30ish mon-thurs except occasional weekends and nightshift week. E: even once I land a permagig I'll still work those hours spring and fall though. An outage is an outage whether you're in-house or a contractor like I am. Nuke plants are fun. Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Feb 22, 2017 17:18
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I have a government pension, excellent benefits and make enough to rent an apartment a couple of bocks from the pacific ocean in my hometown by myself with just an Associate's Degree. This is the price I pay for not going into massive debt for a degree with worse employment prospects. Everything in life has a trade-off. Eventually I want to settle down and have a family and this job enables that, too. I've been working at this place for 13 years, and 10 of them have been with this schedule. It never gets any easier. To the person who said they wake up with less than an hour to go and can't fall back asleep, I'm right there with you. Added difficulty level: I don't drink caffeine of any kind because it makes my anxiety go crazy.
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Feb 22, 2017 17:31
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wait op are you a bird?
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