How to deal with a shift in hours at work?!
Question: i just switched to graveyard shifts for a week i just got here and im tired already....besides coffe how should i stay awake
Answers: i just switched to graveyard shifts for a week i just got here and im tired already....besides coffe how should i stay awake
Tired? I forget what that feels like. I have been catatonic for the last 14 days. I work a two week on two week off rotation in a mining camp. 12 hour days for a total of 168 hours a month. Not including today's shift I have put in 75 hours of overtime. Add to it today's which started at 0530 April 1st ( it is currently 0315 April 2nd) and I'm pushing 85 hours of O.T. in two short weeks. Coffee works to a point, after that Vik's advice is bang on. DONT SIT STILL!!!
Practice perfecting the Moonwalk.
Oh my...that CAN'T be good. Are you able to listen to music? Crank it up? That would be one suggestion, but, if you aren't...I don't know...move around a lot, I guess...but yeah...hit the coffee BIG TIME.
Make up crazy new YA accounts.
Browse Craigslist, EBay, and YouTube.
Practice your Shakespeare voice when answering the phones.
Call the Doctor's lounge and ask whuzzup.
Stay on Y!A...keep with the interesting stuff. Did you bring energy drinks or strong coffee with you? If you start falling asleep, call us 555-5555, and we will be glad to hear your most secret confessions.
Tomorrow morning take Melatonin to get you to sleep...do that every day in shift changes (or if you decide to go rotating shifts).
have a nap and think about it afterwards...
why be unnatural
you are feeling sleepy.....sllleeeppppyyy...
:P
Stay busy. If you sit down, you will sleep.
The melatonin advice is also spot on. You need to do it when changing shifts.
I would avoid excessive coffee. The crash will kill you.
Also, if at all possible, a quick catnap, or power-nap may be in order to return to the land of the living.
I work the night shift. I drink a cup of coffee before I go in..and one soda during my shift. I am able to stay up with no problem. The body (and mind) eventually adjusts.