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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 2198416" data-attributes="member: 7396">I've probably worked more night jobs than day jobs in my time- I prefer it for higher pay (even if only slightly more), less traffic and commuting hassles, and less management types breathing down my neck (though not always- and the flipside of that is that most jobs I've had have generally assumed that all of the night crew are slackers).I'm actually working nights right now, I just got home about an hour ago (another bonus: less EN World traffic this time of day  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) Depending on my hours, I generally sleep from about 9 am to 5 pm currently; I like to think of it a "business hours." I can almost never go to sleep right way after getting home; no matter what the time, I need a couple hours to unwind.After a summer of working night shifts at a gas station (being the only night person is definite job security), I finally got my family trained that, yes, I would actually be sleeping during the day, and all in one chunk, not a few hours here and there. I also had to explain several times why I didn't immediately switch to sleeping at night time on my day off; you know, trying to keep an actual schedule, that sort of thing.My favorite situation was a few years ago when I had a Sunday afternoon game that I was getting up and going to; I'd get home at 7 am, sleep a couple hours, go to the game at noon, and them MAYBE get back to sleep around 6 pm if I could, then get up for my 11 pm shift. After a few weeks I requested that we possibly hold the game a few hours later in the day. Now, I didn't really expect this to fly, why should the group move on my account? But I threw it out there as a possibility. I'd have accepted just about any reason- family obligations, other conflicting work schedules, whatever. But the answer that I got: "We can't hold it later because we'd miss X-Files" wasn't really what I had in mind. I was thinking, "what, you don't know how to use that VCR that's sitting in the corner?"Should've seen that as a warning sign and dropped the game then, instead of staying through the to bitter end. Ah well, live and learn...</blockquote>

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