The joys of the afternoon shift
At my new job I work the afternoon/night shift. I start at either 3 or 4 and work until about midnight, this wasn't a strange transition for me, after all my years of waitressing it came quite naturally. Now that I've gotten into my routine, I've discovered the best part of working at night. I'm no longer addicted to TV.
When I was in Picton, and also a bit when I was in school, TV would somehow take control of my life. I'd get home from work and turn on the TV and watch until I fell asleep. I actually only enjoyed a handful of the shows that I was watching, but I would watch everything. I felt a weird sense of panic if I missed an episode of a show I only marginally enjoyed and completely lost if I missed an episode of a show I actually liked. It was getting ugly, it even got to the point where I had watched so much 'America's Next Top Model' that the word fierce has entered my vocabulary (it means hot if you didn't know).
I'm happy my TV addiction has been kicked, now the only shows I watch are the ones that I feel are important enough to set a tape for, or I'm home to watch. I'm down to basically three shows, ER, Lost and Grey's Anatomy and I like it.
The downside to this is that I'm now often home during the day and have started watching Days of our Lives again--but that's a whole other problem.
posted by Nicole @ 4:42 PM
6 Comments:
I like afternoon shifts, too, for your reason of kicking the TV habit, and also because:
you get to sleep in,
you get to do errands and appointments during the day,
you get to enjoy the sunshine!!!
The downside is not being able to see any of your freinds on weekday evenings who work "normal" jobs. Its like i am a loner all week.
Sleeping in is good, as long as you don't sleep so late you don't have time to run errands or go to appointments.
I'm lucky that all the people I currently know also work nights.
I'm just glad they don't show hockey games in the afternoon, or I'd have to seek clinical help.
I love afternoon shift for the same reasons - able to do appointments etc, go to movies, shopping, see friends. Enjoy the day. I'm going back to afternoon shift after 1 and a half years on day shift. Another bonus - I get to see my husband who also does night shifts!
Afternoon shift at my job means the following;
1)All of the important decisions have already happened during morning shift, so people you trained in that somehow got to work mornings slowly climb to power and try to boss you around.
2)No real credit or thanks from the bosses or much in the way of opportunities for advancement.
3)Going out to eat after work is kinda lame, and before work is weird.
4)All your friends find it difficult to hang out with you.
5)People with children who have bed times just rarely get to see you.
6)Since I feel most productive when the sun is out and most like watching TV when it's night and can't really wind down quickly after work, I tend to watch more Netflix than when I had a "normal shift".
7) I wake up with lots of time before work but instead of just getting the work out of the way early and having energy left, I wake up and dread going to work for about 5 hours every day.
8)The people I work with are all grumpy old men, and there are only 3 of them. The AM shift gets all the friendly people.
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