I'm not much of a morning person so getting up at 5 am to be at Amazon for a 7 am shift would not be ideal for me. My energy tends to be best starting around 4 pm. Chris is similar, though he's learned to be more adaptable due to different jobs he's had. So, for us, going to work at 6 pm is working out well.
Here are my random thoughts:
- The time at Amazon goes quickly and often when our shift is done, it doesn't feel like an entire night has gone by.
- Going to work one day and coming home the next is a bit strange.
- Sleeping during the day is a challenge. When you sleep at night, you can anticipate the house getting cooler as you sleep. The opposite is true during the day.
- When you wake up during the night and think of something you need to do, you can tell yourself "It's night. No one is going to respond to my email/phone call now anyway. It can wait until morning." But when you sleep during the day and wake up with those thoughts, you are more likely (at least I have been) to get up and deal it.
- When do you eat breakfast? At 4:30 pm when we have our first meal of the "day" or at 5:30 am when we get home? Fortunately, we like breakfast any time of day.
- Since there are no windows in the warehouse where we work, you can't tell if it's day or night anyway.
- What do you say to someone at the end of the shift? Usually at the end of a work day, I'd say "good night". "Good day" hardly seems appropriate. Mostly I just grunt and wave.
- It's hard to sleep for long stretches during the day. Hopefully that will improve with time.
- I like having an hour or two of awake time before going to work which would never happen if we were on day shift.
- We are here for a short period of time with the goal of working and saving as much money as possible, so we can make these adjustments. I'm not sure that I'd want to live this way indefinitely.
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