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Basically, another thread of intolerance towards non-conforming non-8-4,9-5 people. Skip if you're tired of my night shift rants.
The other morning, it was about 10:30-11ish, I was outside in my jammies and having a smoke and chocolate milk and was going to then go in and get ready to go to the gym and start my day, when my neighbor walked outside to leave for somewhere.
"Gee, slept all morning? I've been up since 4 and I did yardwork all morning for my parents! Don't you ever get up at a decent time?"
Um, I work all 12 hour shifts 3 or 4 days a week, sometimes 5 or another half shift snuck in there, at NIGHT. I work in the evening and overnight into the morning. By the time I am done for the week, sometimes I crash and sleep all the way to early morning the next day and am good to go, other times I want to genuinely try to be "normal", so I will stay up as much of that day as I can so I can sleep at night, but trust me, if you've worked nights for any amount of time, your body seriously will NOT let you sleep an entire night like a normal person. Without fail, you'll either have trouble falling asleep or you won't be able to sleep the entire night without getting up because your body doesn't think you should be sleeping.
I had a long weekend of sorts this past week, and my extra day I took off, I honestly just slept ALL of last Wednesday, and slept another half of the day Thursday before I felt ready to even tackle that day's events, which weren't even that difficult. By Friday, I was pretty much "normal", until I decided I wanted a nap Friday evening that led to me waking up around midnight and not being able to go back to sleep, so I cooked a bunch of food for this coming week at work and didn't fall back asleep until nearly 5 am, and that's why I just woke up at 10:30 Saturday morning!
Just because I'm "sleeping in" doesn't mean I'm lazy or worthless. Many people work a 2nd shift type of job, do you think someone who gets done with work at 11 pm is going to be up and ready for their day the next day at 4 or 5 am like you are? I doubt it! Are they "lazy" for that?
How about people who work really odd shifts, like later evening until early in the morning, like bar type shifts? Are they worthless because they will generally sleep until noon or later the next day, and then do what they need to do and go to work and do it all over again? It's pretty much all the same, just different hours.
No one is "lazy" because they aren't militant, normal morning people.
My parents are sometimes really intolerant of my brother sleeping in on his days off, because if they have a certain chore or home improvement task for him, they just want him up at 7 am or earlier and getting at it. Poor kid already has to get up earlier than THEY do during the week, working sometimes 12-15 hour days, and almost always going out of town for work....and they get mad that when he has a day off, he wants to sleep in!
The other morning, it was about 10:30-11ish, I was outside in my jammies and having a smoke and chocolate milk and was going to then go in and get ready to go to the gym and start my day, when my neighbor walked outside to leave for somewhere.
"Gee, slept all morning? I've been up since 4 and I did yardwork all morning for my parents! Don't you ever get up at a decent time?"
Um, I work all 12 hour shifts 3 or 4 days a week, sometimes 5 or another half shift snuck in there, at NIGHT. I work in the evening and overnight into the morning. By the time I am done for the week, sometimes I crash and sleep all the way to early morning the next day and am good to go, other times I want to genuinely try to be "normal", so I will stay up as much of that day as I can so I can sleep at night, but trust me, if you've worked nights for any amount of time, your body seriously will NOT let you sleep an entire night like a normal person. Without fail, you'll either have trouble falling asleep or you won't be able to sleep the entire night without getting up because your body doesn't think you should be sleeping.
I had a long weekend of sorts this past week, and my extra day I took off, I honestly just slept ALL of last Wednesday, and slept another half of the day Thursday before I felt ready to even tackle that day's events, which weren't even that difficult. By Friday, I was pretty much "normal", until I decided I wanted a nap Friday evening that led to me waking up around midnight and not being able to go back to sleep, so I cooked a bunch of food for this coming week at work and didn't fall back asleep until nearly 5 am, and that's why I just woke up at 10:30 Saturday morning!
Just because I'm "sleeping in" doesn't mean I'm lazy or worthless. Many people work a 2nd shift type of job, do you think someone who gets done with work at 11 pm is going to be up and ready for their day the next day at 4 or 5 am like you are? I doubt it! Are they "lazy" for that?
How about people who work really odd shifts, like later evening until early in the morning, like bar type shifts? Are they worthless because they will generally sleep until noon or later the next day, and then do what they need to do and go to work and do it all over again? It's pretty much all the same, just different hours.
No one is "lazy" because they aren't militant, normal morning people.
My parents are sometimes really intolerant of my brother sleeping in on his days off, because if they have a certain chore or home improvement task for him, they just want him up at 7 am or earlier and getting at it. Poor kid already has to get up earlier than THEY do during the week, working sometimes 12-15 hour days, and almost always going out of town for work....and they get mad that when he has a day off, he wants to sleep in!
I sleep in until 10:30 or 11 am on Saturday on a pretty regular basis, and I'm a day worker. I don't get where someone would think that's unusual.
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