| The Night Shift |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|05:43 pm] |
There was a "night shifts cause cancer" news meme being pushed today.
When I first told my mother that I was going to be working the night shift, babysitting computers as part of a 24x7 department, her reaction was "oh, you're one of THOSE types now, are you?" Her experience with the night shift was when she was a nurse, before I was born. They had it much worse than I do. Sometimes they'd be on days, and sometimes on nights. My work schedule is all nights, completely predictable and compact: three or four 12-hour night shifts in a row, then the rest of the week off. There's not much I can get done between shifts, but the rest of the week is great for traveling.
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