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Of Hamsters On Wheels...
Feb. 6th, 2005 02:02 pmThis settles it. I've never gotten on very well with 9-5, Monday to Friday-type working hours but after this last month it has now gone beyond not getting on, past the screaming rows stage, past even the not-talking stage and straight into the equivalent of a nasty, messy, prolonged break-up.
I feel like a hamster on a wheel. I go to work for 8 hours, with another hour or so taken up with getting ready and getting there and so on. I usually need 10 hours of sleep. This leaves a whole 5 hours for everything else in my life that I need to do. And then the same again. Five days in a row. And then 2 off and back to the start again, over and over. Like a hamster, I tell you. It feels really weird and claustrophobic after being used to shifts of various sorts , especially only having 2 days off at a time. And for me a day's pretty much good for nothing once I've been to work, be it for 4 hours or 12.
I will be very, very glad indeed when this training finishes (21st of February, I believe) and I start the shifts I'll be doing from now on (8am to 8pm, 3 days a week). Instead of 8 days off a month I will then have 16 and I can hopefully start having a life again. Until then it's back to the wheel. again. Round and round and round and round and round...
I feel like a hamster on a wheel. I go to work for 8 hours, with another hour or so taken up with getting ready and getting there and so on. I usually need 10 hours of sleep. This leaves a whole 5 hours for everything else in my life that I need to do. And then the same again. Five days in a row. And then 2 off and back to the start again, over and over. Like a hamster, I tell you. It feels really weird and claustrophobic after being used to shifts of various sorts , especially only having 2 days off at a time. And for me a day's pretty much good for nothing once I've been to work, be it for 4 hours or 12.
I will be very, very glad indeed when this training finishes (21st of February, I believe) and I start the shifts I'll be doing from now on (8am to 8pm, 3 days a week). Instead of 8 days off a month I will then have 16 and I can hopefully start having a life again. Until then it's back to the wheel. again. Round and round and round and round and round...
