I was wondering how many more of you all work shift? I'm kind of curious if there are any statistics that show how many marathoners or ultra runners do well yet work shift. I know shift work is stressful on the body but I think I'll probably be doing it for the rest of my career. I do aspire to be an ultra runner, though those are lofty goals right now with my longest race ever being 1 10k I did last year. But I am determined to try a half marathon this year and a full next. We'll see how those go first. Anyhow back to the shift work...
Our shift rotation is actually neat in some regards... it allows us to all equally experience weekdays, nights, weekends, hollidays etc. No shift has any advantage over another. I work for the power company and its a 24x7x365 thing, if y'all want power.
And due to the reliability and critical nature they dont want all the newbies stuck on nights, all the seniors with the best shift, etc. We do 12hr shifts, and there is always one shift on days, one on nights, one on call, one on their off week, and one on short break. And it rotates every week through the cycle. We do a week of 4 nights, a week of 3 days and 3 nights, a week of 4 days, off week, and on-call week. It balances out to 40hrs, unless we get called in more than that on our on-call week.
I'm actually on my last night right now, getting off in 3 hours at 6AM and have the next two days to flip my internal clock 180º and be back in to work 6AM on thursday. I can usually handle the switch to nights by staying up a bit late and sleeping in the couple days prior but the switch back to days kills me almost every time.
So anyone else here work shift? Am I doomed to constant stress? As if I didnt have enough stress already.
Our shift rotation is actually neat in some regards... it allows us to all equally experience weekdays, nights, weekends, hollidays etc. No shift has any advantage over another. I work for the power company and its a 24x7x365 thing, if y'all want power.
And due to the reliability and critical nature they dont want all the newbies stuck on nights, all the seniors with the best shift, etc. We do 12hr shifts, and there is always one shift on days, one on nights, one on call, one on their off week, and one on short break. And it rotates every week through the cycle. We do a week of 4 nights, a week of 3 days and 3 nights, a week of 4 days, off week, and on-call week. It balances out to 40hrs, unless we get called in more than that on our on-call week.I'm actually on my last night right now, getting off in 3 hours at 6AM and have the next two days to flip my internal clock 180º and be back in to work 6AM on thursday. I can usually handle the switch to nights by staying up a bit late and sleeping in the couple days prior but the switch back to days kills me almost every time.
So anyone else here work shift? Am I doomed to constant stress? As if I didnt have enough stress already.
