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Author Starting Nights tomorrow, Any advice hints and tips
Iain M
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19th May 12 at 22:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Starting work for Eddie Stobart tomorrow as a transport clerk and its nights. I have never worked nights before so any advice from people that do would be great.
Sort of gonna try and stay up late tonight but apart from that don't really know what else.

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19th May 12 at 22:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
red bull for first few nights and make sure you get a good few hours kip when you get home!
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19th May 12 at 22:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I don't think you can do that much to help until your body falls into its natural new body clock
Iain M
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19th May 12 at 22:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ill be doing 4 on 4 off. I'm frightened of dropping off
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nowhere near as bad as people make out, i do 2 days 2 nights back to back with 1 hours drive either side per shift and im fine with it. would rather do 4 nights though. worth it for the days off!

youl be fine, stay up tonight, get up just before work tomoz just as you would a day shift.

[Edited on 19-05-2012 by Wrighty]
Iain M
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19th May 12 at 22:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
nice one. Do you stay up for a bit when you finish or do you just go straight to bed when you get in?
yeah the days off is a nice perk
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19th May 12 at 22:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Take plenty of food, phone charger, something to keep you busy
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19th May 12 at 23:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
after my 1st i go straight to bed yeah, usually get 8 hrs kip

after my 2nd depends how i feel

worth investing in blackout curtains/blinds specially with summer coming up
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19th May 12 at 23:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Always helps me to stay up late as possible then sleep late as possible before the first one. Some people try and hardcore it get up usual time so not to waste a day off then they are nodding off at work
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Stay up as late as possible tonight. When i did a few i woke up at 10am that day, shift started 11pm-8pm.
Ended up being up for 24 hours, not nice!
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i work nights but its in a casino , so there is often alot to do to stop you from becoming tired. on my days off i can easily go back into a normal sleeping pattern . it is worth getting an eye mask and ear plugs to help you sleep after though
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In my job involves sitting in a boring warm room for hour long stints in silence, is a killer as you really can't nod off so you end up head bobbing
Iain M
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Thanks people, very helpful. We are going getting a blackout blind tomorrow but never thought of ear plugs to be honest as we live round the corner from a school.

Ill be doing 7 -7's I'm hoping i will be busy then it keeps my mind occupied
Iain M
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19th May 12 at 23:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
What job do you do Tom?
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19th May 12 at 23:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
whatever it is, sounds boring
Iain M
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19th May 12 at 23:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah i thought that, its the 1 hour at a time bit that made me laugh lol
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when i used to work at a hotel when i was younger i used to finish work any time from 12.30 till about 2.00 and i could be wide awake and couldnt get to sleep for a few after i had got home

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IMO I'd say the best advice is to take them seriously.
People always say they can stay up all night but when i was in a job where i would be working nights I always told myself to understand that sleep is still needed in the same proportions as if I were working normal days.

[Edited on 20-05-2012 by Haimsey]

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Iain M
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20th May 12 at 00:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah i'm hoping to get at least a good 7 half hours sleep at least that.
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I used to do permanent nights 9.30 to 8 mon to thurs, used to stay up for a bit sometimes after I had got home other times used to just get in bed without even a shower I was that tired, once overlaid for a night shift lol
Iain M
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20th May 12 at 00:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeeah there is also that too im worried about lol, that would be my luck haha
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getting up for nights is nowhere near as bad as waking up in a morning to go to work.
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I have basically shifted my sleeping pattern around. So instead of normal people sleeping from 11 - 6am. I sleep from 6am to 1pm. Also means I can stay in bed I rarely get out of bed straight away, I feel so much better for it than struggling out of bed everyday. And I still get the same amount of sleep if not more somedays if I get into bed earlier or get up later.

Some people at work do split sleeps, sleep 4 hours when they get home then up at 9, see the day though have dinner then sleep 6:30 to 9:30, I couldn't do that

It's eating I struggle with. I've been doing permanent nights for 4 and a half years and I still can't get my eating pattern right
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20th May 12 at 02:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i have dinner before i come in at 7pm and dont eat through the night
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The first one is always the worst, then the recovery once you come off them, my mate used to come off his last night turn and not bother sleeping til that night to get back into the sleeping pattern, I could never do it.

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