Maybe you've worked nights before. Or if you haven't, pretend that you do or have, then consider this: You've worked the last four nights. You finished work this morning and have the coming night off. Do you go to bed, then wake up sometime in the afternoon or evening, to stay up in to the late night/early morning hours, or do you stay up for the entire day, do things as you normally would, and simply go to bed early? I am just curious.
I worked nights 5 days in a row years ago, so after the last night I'd probably be tired as usual and go to sleep for at least 6 hours. Then celebrate the weekend friday evening :cheers2: edit: oh and then probably go to bed around 2 or 3 AM and sleep for at least 7 or 8 hours
I've never worked nights but I know a couple of people that have and both of them would stay up until that night, go to bed earlyish, and wake up the next day so they could enjoy the day. I guess it really depends on if you have two consecutive days off. If you stayed up and went to bed that night but had to work the following night you might throw your schedule off too much.
I work nights ,Monday to Friday. I usually sleep for around 6 hours ,after breakfast and that suits me.
it would all depend on what I wanted to do that day. if I had errands to run id stay up. but if I wanted to do something that night id get some sleep. I worked 3rd shift for 4 years and 2nd for 6. For the last year and a half ive been on day shift and im still not accoustomed to it. I feel like a normal daywalker would feel like trying to get used to working nights.
My mum and my brother both do graveyard shift at their respective jobs, and they both approached it differently. My mum would try to adjust to daytime hours asap, my brother would keep his night schedule. He was a lot less messed up than my mum, lol.
I, generally, work nights. I have for the last 7 nights, and have (including tonight) 5 nights to go. I finish at 6-7am, and have been sleeping till around 1-2pm. I'd like to go to the gym and/or do a few things before I sleep, but it hardly ever happens (I can't be bothered after). I'm off for a 3 days after the currents shifts. I'll probably be as tired on the last shift (in the morning) as I usually am - so will probably go straight to sleep for however long my body tells me it needs (I don't use alarm clocks). Knowing I have 3 days off probably won't alter my pattern... I know I'll stay up late that night... I've been on random patterns of sleep for 5-6 years, so it's all gravy to me now. If I sleep, I sleep - If I don't, I won't.
Working an off shift like nights is really hard when it comes to off times. I worked shifts for years when I was in university and I found it was difficult to change over or manage the changes from shifts and life. The only thing that helped me was to maintain the same sleeping schedule even when I was not working. I could tinker around with a few hours but the more core hours for sleeping I maintained.
I spent a short time working 6 Nights/week:- 23:00-07:00 Sun Night to Sat Morning So my Weekend consisted of:- Sat morning 07:00 finish Get Home and wind down Bed 09:00 to 18:00, 18:00 to 00:00 (Pub Night) then Bed, Sleep 00:00 to 08:30, then Football (Kick off 10:00) Play, Home Bed 15:00 to 18:00, Bath, Tea, then out to work at 21:30 I was young....er and, it didn't last that long
I work a rotating shift. The shift is called the "Dupont" shift. I guess dupont came up with it(I don't work for dupont btw, that's just the shift we work). I work 12 hr shifts. When I get off my last night shift I take all if the room darkening material off of the windows, go to sleep, then get out of bed the first time I wake up, which is after about 3 hours. During the days that I am actually working the night shift(not the last one, which I was talking about earlier), I try to go back to sleep every time I wake up until it is time to go to work. But, again, the last morning I only sleep about 3 hrs, drag around all day like a zombie then go to bed early. I have to make sure I get used to sleeping nights for when I swing back to working days. sorry if that doesn't make sense - I'm in the process of turning back around to day shift.
