Is kicking my butt!! 1030-0700! Only positive side is it's doing what I love!
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Is kicking my butt!! 1030-0700! Only positive side is it's doing what I love!
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Come on summer time, asleep by 730, up at 4 in the afternoon and fish till dark, go to work!!!
Lol, I hear ya.. I did graveyard for a year or so, been 15 years back. Said I never do it again, I had a double whammy, working nights along with a crap job I hated. At least you like what you're doing.. that's more than half the battle there.
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Been on nights 27 years, but have good job.
Retired with 33 years 12 hour shifts. Days one set , off, nights one set, off. Every other weekend off. Been 6 years ago. As you see by the time I still can't sleep normally.
D, I know what you are feeling...I'm the same way
Feel your pain.was asked do you ever get used to the shift work.NEVER .Worked shift work forward's and backwards 38 years.They decided I did enough work in 12 hours they would let me try 8 hrs.and have every week end off. LOL finally got a day job. 6-2:30.I still wake up at 4:30 every day.LOLO.Do not Do not miss the nights 6:30-6:30 but I do miss my long weekends!!!
11/7 shift for 28 years. Couldn't get weekends off, the best were sunday and monday. But, I always had 2 days off together.
Best thing about nights is management goes home
I'd work the night shift if I was set like you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ducker
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Extra Pay and SELF management. Don't get any better. [emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd
Not at this place!! It still crawls with them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd
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I feel your pain brother. We work rolling 6's out here on the ship. Six hours on watch six hours off, straight for 28 days. One hitch is midnight-6am and then noon-6pm then the next hitch is 6-noon 6-midnight. Never sleep more than 4-5 hours at a time all month. Good thing I love my job!
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I loved mine. When work was caught up I did what I wanted to do. Some napped and I cast sinkers and bullets.
bet i know a place that has an open fabricator job and its days........................Quote:
Originally Posted by ducker
Guaranteed!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mississippi
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Have done that on a ship for 6-8 months at a time. During the day stand your watch and then work the other 6. Your right if your real lucky and nothing broke down you would get 4-5 hr's sleep every 24. Make a old man out of you in a hurry.Quote:
Originally Posted by MidMsAngler
so that's your excuse not that you was born in 1923.Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
That's 1928 to you my young friend. I seen you huffing and puffing like a old steam engine a few times. And b the way I'm still better looking.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabin
I was huffing and puffing cause you was working me like a dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
Was that on a sailing ship Charlie ? [emoji1]Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
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Not quite, but my first 4 years was on a wooden hull mine sweeper that was only 165 feet long, round bottomed and we were all over the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
G you know he was on the mayflower
The ark did not have sails
Like the Capt says "the ship will make you a man and the sea will make you old"Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
You mean there are days when the plant doesn't try and break down?! Lost all water pressure yesterday when our main water pump burst open and flooded the bilges with our drinking water. Water shorted out the main battery bank, all engine gauge relays to the bridge were trashed and that was before lunch. Now we have a turbo that sounds like she's going out.
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That sounds about like a typical day. With all that machinery running hard as it does something always on the fritz. Hopefully the bilge pumps work. One thing I took extra special care of on PM's was the fire pumps. Treat those things like a new born baby when pulling apart and back together. Went through 2 engine room fires at sea. Bad scary. You have some kind of Manuel override on your steering?Quote:
Originally Posted by MidMsAngler
That's back when the ships were made of wood and the men were made of steel!Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
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Fire at sea=worst nightmare! I carry spares for my spares when it comes to fire and bilge pumps. Luckily when the pump burst it just transferred water from our main potable water storage tank into the bilge and didn't bring in any more water than we already had on board. Gave us a funny list for awhile though.Quote:
Originally Posted by cray
Yeah, we run electric over hydraulic steering with a non followup back-up system and can also switch to straight pull hydraulic with a few turns of a wrench.
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