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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: JSC3ATLCSO on April 23, 2009, 04:15:04 AM
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Just checking into what people do or what type of sleeping disorder members of DRTV have?
Personally I work shift work with unlimited internet access. Tonight being the last night of 23 days in a row. 6 days to 10 afternoons to 7 nights with one being a double shift. (Just a fact, not looking for sympathy as I could have refused some of the OT. Gotta support my gun addiction) So needless to say I get to spend a lot of time on DRTV. Usually the first thing people say to me after I tell them what I do is "Oh you are the Maytag Repair Man" I just reply that I'm not paid for what I do, I'm paid for what I can do. It takes a lot of talent to sit and be this bored most of the time.
As I'm sitting here tonight there are 17 members online at 4 am central time - Philw you get a pass as it is tomorrow already for you.
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I keep fairly regular work patterns. I'm a retail store manager for a large grocery chain. My hours are generally 7-5, 8-6 but they do vary with occasional evenings. Lots of 6 days a week type of stuff but no 23 days in a row. Anyhoo, I'm salaried so theirs no incentive there for the OT.
My sleep disorders are kept in check by wine. ;D
When you see me on here at 5:21am EST then it's just as I'm waking up. The latest you'll see me on is up to Midnightish....I sleep when it's dark out for the most part and NEVER EVER access DRTV from work. Not allowed (even the boss has people watching over his shoulder).
Take a Day off soon.....enjoy what life has to offer.
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http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php/topic,5506.msg64662.html#msg64662
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I'm retired but when I did do I was a "Quality Control and Documentation" specialist. That's double talk for I stood around and watched people work and wrote about what they did. I worked for the Ohio Dept. of Trans. on smaller heavy highway construction projects aka "Orange Barrel Blues" in Ohio. I worked different shifts but mostly days. I have had trouble sleeping for years and while recovering from med. problems recently it is sometimes worse. Sometimes I give up and jump on the computer so I might show up at any time of the day or night!
Richard
PS: NAP TIME!
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Currently unemployed but usually run milling machines and other metal working machines. Been on 2nd shift since 91, so I to am liable to show up anytime ;D
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http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php/topic,5506.msg64662.html#msg64662
Hit!
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Mostly working afternoons, but may and have worked anytime. I'm in a 24/7/365 day industry. I have worked the multiweek stretches before. Currently 8 days into 9 scheduled. Use to work mostly nights for many years. My sleep patterns are probably permanentely altered.
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24/7/365 business also. 0000 to 0800 Tuesday through Saturday with the rare double, special detail, training or extra hours. I get 8 hrs of sleep 3-4 days a week, other work days 3-5. I have been known to sleep for 10-13 hrs straight on days off if I really lost out on sleep during the work week. Unfortunately, I've never been able to shake off the good(?) military training of getting 4 hours of sleep and go 36+ hours without sleep without a problem. Once awake, I'm awake.
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I sleep 0-23 hours a day. Lately I've been getting up at the crack of noon and going to bed at midnight after visiting this forum and a couple others.
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Honestly, I "lurk" around when my usual light sleeping habit keeps me awake.
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I have lived off 4 hours or less sleep a night for well over a decade. No caffine, what so ever.
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;D well,,, for six months of the year I travel around on a merchant ship and get drunk in any country I come across. the rest of the year, I spend on vacation. sorry, I had to rub that in... the six months of vacation I mean. ::)
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Boiler Plant Supervisor in a VA hospital. Also associate pastor of a church that ministers to primarily bikers.
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Before Nov.4th 2008 I worked in the Oil field in Texas after Nov.4th the oil field went home for the duration.Profesional lurker now.
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"Oh you are the Maytag Repair Man"
^^^^ THIS ^^^^
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I spent 15 years being paid not for what I do, but for what I can do. I worked a modified Kelly with OT and trades that sometimes put me on a 96 hour stint in the house. Now I'm a 40 hour guy in prevention for my last eight trying to save my knees, back, shoulders that I've not been kind to over the years of dragging hoses, throwing ladders, and picking up guerneys with sick overwieght people on them.
My sleep disorders are almost cured but I can still wake up in a few seconds from a dead sleep to 60 mph in no time. So much to do, so little time.
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New here but, I also happen to be in the fire service. I work a 24hr/48hr scehdule with part-time in between at the local volunteer FD. I know exactly what tfr270 is talking about with the 0-60mph wake-up. I here tones that remind me of prior fire stations uotside of work and still get that adrenaline dump.
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tfr270 and C.O.T.U.S. - Good to hear from Fire service members! I graduated high school in '99 and joined the local Vol. Fire department, and soon afterward the local vol. ambulance service. After 2 years in the factory that is when I was hired on at the local Sheriff's Office as a dispatcher. Spent a little over 8 years there now I'm in my cush dispatch. (Wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for the sheriff's office experience) Still on the fire and ambulance services just when I'm around the home area. (Still go home for the farm) I had to give up my Chief position (Last 3.5 years) when I moved. So I too understand the 0-60 mentality.
Thanks for posting and Welcome to the forum.. (Phone rings!)