#NightShiftProblems

Hashtags are are stupid. But so is working 12 hours a night 6 nights a week for the ridiculously pathetic pay I get.

I've always been kind of a night person. Sneaking out of the house at 3 in the morning as a 10 year old just to play outside in the yard. But the rest of the world doesn't seem to function on my time schedule. My wife and I are literally passing each other in the hallway. Our conversations seem to be limited to when the last time these soul devouring wild animals

were last fed. 

In the big scheme of things, I am glad I work nights. I just wish the hours were not so long. But it also makes it rough trying to have a relationship with my wife when I never see her. If I was rich and could afford a babysitter, I would probably go back to working day shift. No. If I was rich I wouldn't work period. But that probably isn't true either. I'd buy a comicbook store and read The Avengers all day long. Maybe give smoking pot another try.

So I really should work days. It would be best for my family. Only alcoholics should work night shift. It would give them less time to be in bars during drinking hours. I mean, I would love to go sit in a bar after work and have a lot to drink. They're just not open. And that really sucks. But I guess it's another money saving technique.

Nights have it's advantages though. The work load is generally less. This is great for my laziness. It's also usually quieter. The calls I do get are usually more interesting. I'm not sure that there are actually more shootings, and stabbings, and house fires, and assaults, and overdoses at night. But those seem to be the majority of our calls. (I never knew how many people actually get shot every day in my city that never make the news.) The biggest advantage of my hours are this... 

It's here everyday. But at an ungodly early hour of it. It also helps that it's only blocks from my house. I wonder if everyone that lives at the beach still appreciates how awesome it really is. I hope I don't ever take this for granted. I can sit in peace and quiet every morning and end my nights right here.

There is also no way I could have time to write this stuff at work if I was on day shift.