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<RANT> I HATE MY FR#@#$@#$#@$@ JOB

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Originally posted by: waggy
bohooo! you have a job! whaaa!

If you dont like it quit!

so you dont have time to go out and play. Whaaa! life is so darn unfair! whaaaa! why me! whaaa!

sheesh get over it. if you dont like the job get onother. life sucks. be happy you even have a job.
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You're retarded. I have a job, yeah I'm happy about that. But a job where you just don't sleep. Ummm...six months of NO SLEEPING....yeah, it sucks. Try it sometime and get back to me, ok? Cool.

If I quit, I am forced to go back under my parents fully till I find something else, I can't allow that.




KeyserSoze
 
Twelve hour shifts suck. They leave so little time for "life". A million years ago I drove taxi cab for 12 hour shifts. It consumed my life. Stupidest job ever. It brought my life to a complete halt. It is a black hole in my existence. (Okay, I'm being melodramatic. I have a few good stories...)
 
I feel for you, my business has been slow and I am planning on going bak to work as a sleep tech at the hospital.
it's 10-12 hour shifts usually 8-6 or 6-6....then I'm going to have my biz to run. I was a tech for 3 yrs...and I had the same sleeping problems as you.🙁
 
As a former graveyard shift worker myself, I can tell you a couple of things that helped me sleep.

Don't try to sleep right after your shift, sleep before it. In other words, wake up in time to get to work. Do it even if it creates some minor difficulties. Getting adequate sleep will make a big difference in how you feel, as I'm sure you already know.

If you literally sit there and do nothing except stare at a screen, take a couple of weights with you and do curls and/or jog in place. Anything to get some physical activity in during your shift. You don't have to do it continuously, even a little bit will help you sleep. If you can't do it while you are on duty, eat your lunch while you work, then do some exercise on your lunch break.

Stay away from caffeine, including chocolate.

If daytime noise is keeping you up, get something to generate some white noise. It will help mask the outside noises. I use an air cleaner or small fan.

Sometimes the fear of not getting to sleep makes it worse. Tell yourself that you will sleep and if you can't sleep, get up and do something. Don't lie in bed worrying about sleeping. The idea is to train your subconscious that if you are in bed, you will be sleeping.
 
I had a job this summer where I either worked 5:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or I worked 6 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. It was absolutely dreadful. My week went like this - Monday and Friday and sometimes Sat./Sun., morning shift. Tuesday, Wednesday, night shift. I learned to accept it, but it basically ate away my social life.

The job was meaningful (U of M Dept. of Public Safety) but a lot of it was downtime. I liked what I was doing, but the hours were horrible. I learned to sleep BEFORE work, rather than after it. I napped during the day. I got to bed early. Sure, my job was temporary (summer work only, now I have a job with perfect daytime hours), but you too can learn to accept it. If you do something meaningful while you're working (read classic literature, listen to good jazz music, learn a foreign language, write your great American novel, etc.) you'll look forward to going to work.

The key is not to like what you're doing, but to look forward to your job. Obviously you hate what you're doing NOW, but since you have so much free time, change what you're doing...make work fun for yourself! 🙂

Good luck.
 
If I had internet access I would LOVE that job.

Getting paid to do nothing but surf the net and post on forums, dream job come true!
 
Lots of good suggestions here, thanks guys.

I have done everything to try to sleep. Room is pitch black, and I fall asleep to my tv on low volume (As I have for years now). I do believe that the fear of no sleep does have something to do with it. I'm always trying to rush to bed, and get to sleep as fast as possible. Falling asleep is not the problem, it's just that once I get up...I'm up, and no matter how many hours I lay in my bed motionless, I can't go back to sleep. That totally sucks.




KeyserSoze
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
If I had internet access I would LOVE that job.

Getting paid to do nothing but surf the net and post on forums, dream job come true!
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I've tried thinking like that. And yes I do have Internet Access. (Limited, but I can still get to all tech/news sites.) But man, there's only soo much of that you can do.




KeyserSoze
 
Sometimes after 2pm, I'd lock up and just sleep behind the counter for a few hours. Then open again around 6am.

A couple of times a buddy who broke up with his gf and didn't have anything to do but feel blue came over with beer and we'd hit the bottles till we passed out. Sometimes he'd handle the customers when I was too drunk to do so. I never complained. I was making money. Even saw some good looking chicks come in to buy stuff, but mostly men.

sounds like the entire plot of the movie "clerks"
 
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
Sometimes after 2pm, I'd lock up and just sleep behind the counter for a few hours. Then open again around 6am.

A couple of times a buddy who broke up with his gf and didn't have anything to do but feel blue came over with beer and we'd hit the bottles till we passed out. Sometimes he'd handle the customers when I was too drunk to do so. I never complained. I was making money. Even saw some good looking chicks come in to buy stuff, but mostly men.

sounds like the entire plot of the movie "clerks"
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without the bathroom scene, I pray
 
Give up the condo life, give up all your flaming worldly possessions, go live in a dilapidated house in the toxic waste part of town...


quit. or quit complaining. or at least take the fight club quote out of your sig.

a lot of people in the world have it far worse than you.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
If I had internet access I would LOVE that job.

Getting paid to do nothing but surf the net and post on forums, dream job come true!
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it gets old after a while...trust me.
 
My sympathies. I have trouble sleeping too - I used to take prescription meds.

Try exercising more? No caffeine, no sugar rushes before bed.
 
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