What do people do?

[TAB]

I have lived off 4 hours or less sleep a night for well over a decade.   No caffine, what so ever.

[deepwater]

  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. 

[WyoJoe]

Boiler Plant Supervisor in a VA hospital. Also associate pastor of a church that ministers to primarily bikers.

[mudman]

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.

[True_Texan]

"Oh you are the Maytag Repair Man" 

      ^^^^ THIS ^^^^

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[tfr270]

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.

[C.O.T.U.S.]

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.

[JSC3ATLCSO]

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!)