I Worked The Night Shift

You would think that since I’m awake at 4:00 in the morning, working the graveyard shift would be perfect. Get paid to stay up all night, but after a while, it really started to take it's toll. Since I worked during the night, I would sleep all day and because of that, I felt that there wasn’t enough hours in the day to get the things I needed to get done before I had to take a nap before heading to work for my 12am shift.

It was challenging because as much as I liked the idea of working the graveyard, I found that I didn’t benefit from it. I felt that since I wanted to meet and connect with people, the night shift wasn’t the place for that. Not being able to work with the staff that worked during the day was hard because I felt like I was missing out. I felt that I wasn’t able to build a friendship with my co-workers. I still don’t really have what you call a friendship with my co-workers, they are just people I work with.

Because of the drain of working nights. I had switched to working days. Which seemed to be better since I don’t have to sleep all day before work, but I do find it a little more challenging because of how many more things you have to do during the day and you find out who people are.

I find that working with a group of people with different personalities is something I know I have to get used to, but when you have co-workers that are at least 10 years younger then you, working with them is hard because you don’t feel like it's right to have them give you orders knowing that you are a lot older then them. It feels wrong for some reason. I think sometimes people who are younger and have been working there longer then you seem to be on a power trip because they think they have the authority.

If it was in an environment that I enjoyed and I wanted to be in it, working any hour of the day wouldn’t matter because I loved the work.