Does anyone here work Overnight Shift?

United States
January 3, 2009 8:47pm CST
I was just wondering because i might be doing this very soon. This temp agency will probably get me in at this Company and it looks like i will likely do 3rd shift. How do you best deal with this type of shift? I ask this because i have tried this shift quite a few times in the past and i've never been good at dealing with it.I am very willing though because i Really Need The Job/Income. Should i eat at Mcdonalds just before coming in? Have like 3 or 4 cheeseburgers and several Mc Cafe's or something? Maybe several Bananas and alotta Fruit juice as well. What helps keep you up the best...? I've tried drinking alotta coffee at one particular 3rd shift job and it just didnt really work too well at all. I noticed when i ate alotta fruit,that helped a pretty good deal and i remember working a semi 3rd shift job in the past.I'd clean a couple of meatrooms and the 2nd one i'd clean would be a 10pm-4am shift basically. I ate alotta red meat back then and that type of diet seemed to help keep me up. I also used to bring those ensure drinks with me.Sometimes equate drinks as well. Remember them drinks?...They're like meal supplement drinks and they do help keep ya up.They give ya all kinds of fast and sustained energy. How are those Mc Cafe's anyway?....Havent tried em yet. Are they as Good as them Dunkin Donuts Latte's...? I just despise that feeling of getting ready to go in and you allready feel like you wanna go to sleep shortly but you know and fully realize that you have yourself a good 8+ hours of staying up all night long ahead of ya.
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@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
4 Jan 09
When I was younger, I think I was 22 or 23, I worked for post office briefly... I think they called it "casuals" but basically temporary position for Christmas season... I started work at 8 at night & got done around 4:30 in the morning... I hated it... Thank goodness it was only for 3 month... I started in the middle of November & I was let go in the middle of Febuary... I never wanna do it again & I gotta hand it to people who do it for years on end... I don't know how they do it...