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As of today, I am starting a new shift at work... 6am - 2:30pm until further notice. That means I needed to get up at 4:30am!!! I had a choice to accept this or not, but decided it would be good for the summer months. I always use vacation days to take DH to his doctor appointments and now this frees us up to get the appointments in the afternoon. I can also do things I need to do before they close. Hopefully this will work out when my internal clock get reset.
 

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I'd work those hours, if I could. I love getting home from work early and getting things done around the house. It seems that I never have enough to get all the things done that I want to do. Even if it meant getting up earlier, yepper, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
 

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Years ago when I worked for the phone company, their early shift was 6 - 3. It was my favorite set of hours to work.
 

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I would love to get off at 2 or 3. I get up at 4:30, go to work at 6 am, get off at 6 pm or whenever I vacate my last trip. Halloween and New Year's Eve I worked 22 hours. This summer I will have a lot of down time, sitting in the hot Southern sun. People take cabs less in the summer for some reason. Thank goodness for books and dvd players you can plug into the lighter. And spf 75.
 

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I would die, absolutely shrivel and perish on a 6 am shift. I am NOT a morning person!
 

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Amen!! I'm the same way. I'd have no energy left to do anything else.


Originally Posted by otto

I would die, absolutely shrivel and perish on a 6 am shift. I am NOT a morning person!
 
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I did ok today. Got to bed early last night and actually got about 7-8 hrs sleep. The alarm went off at 4:30 and I drank a cup of coffee before I left. It was weird having my first break at the time I normally would have been arriving.

I think once I get used to this shift, I will like it. I will be able to do so much more in the afternoon. I don't watch TV, so I will not be missing any shows. LOL the last time I watched TV was about 5-10 minutes last Saturday. The time before that was the winter olympics!
 

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I used to work those hours. Now I can barely get my butt out of bed by 6:30 and then it takes 1-1.5 hours for me to get through traffic to work.

Still been getting out by 2:30ish though
Not a lot of work but I'm salaried.
 

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Ages ago when I got my first job I remember thinking about how much I hated getting up early and thinking that eventually I would get used to it.

Ha!
Thirty million years later I am still getting used to it.

These days I get up at 4:30 and I don't have to be in until 8:00. In my decline I am slow getting moving in the morning. I have to have my coffee and cereal before I go out.

Then I have my morning conversation and brush time with Chester. I sit in the kitchen chair, he rubs around on my legs and the chair legs and I reach down and brush.

These days I am not as slow as I have been and sometimes I get to work early. I hope my next job will be easier.
 

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I think you will enjoy that shift!

I used to work a similar one many years ago when I worked in a cafeteria of a factory. If I had a car and was driving, it would have been great! However, I had to bus it and it was a very long and difficult bus trip, involving having to walk long distances, about 1/2 mile from home to the bus and 1 to 2 miles from the bus to work depending on which bus I managed to catch. Getting home was just as bad because the buses didn't run out there at all at the time I finished so I had to walk 2 miles to the nearest bus stop. Summer wasn't so bad, but winters were horrid. I could have taken a taxi from the bus stop, but it would have cost me more than 1 hour of my income to do so.

When I worked at the hospital I worked 7:30 am to 3:45 pm. That was nice too because I had time to go to the bank and stuff. Now I work 8:00 am to 4:15 pm. Not so nice. I love having my evenings free, but the hours take up the whole day and I can't get any "business-related" stuff done without having to take unpaid time off work to do so.

My brother (a bus driver) starts work at about 4:30 am and finishes at noon. He goes to bed really early, something like 8 to 9 pm, but he loves it. Has been doing it for years.
 

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I worked 6-2 shift for the past month and then did landscaping jobs after-very tiring.

If your work stays the same for this shift as the last it won't be too bad. Where I work its very busy for the first 2-3 hours rushing to get stuff done so one didn't really think about the early time. But now its hard to capture that hour of sleep back for me!
 
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