Messed up sleep cycles?

Originally Posted by thulfi

Mi6 or what??

Not too sure what that means.

Originally Posted by MattCollins

48-72 hours is the normal length of my day

As in that's a long day mate, by anybodies standards. 48-72hour shift is James Bond business mate.

mere amateurs the lot of ya,
18 months with busted leg = 9/10 attempts of 30mins/1hr sleeps a day followed by 3 day awake
now working, work from 6am till 8am ,sleep till 3pm ,work till 8pm stay awake till work again , with no sleep 1 out of 3 days
weekend finish work at 6pm hit bar by 8pm drink till 5am sleep till sunday afternoon
start all over again

On early, I get up just before 5 to be in work for 6. Finish at 2pm.
On late, I start at 2pm and finish about 10pm, meaning I have dinner just before 11pm. And it's not unheard of in here to 'double back', finish a late and have to be in for an early due to the management screwing up the rosters.

Bad though this is, it's nothing on my old job at Cardiff Airport. shifts were all over the place. As an example, up at 2am, in for 3 to do one flight, finish at 7am. Yes, four hour shift. Home, then, back in at 7pm to work all through the night. You basically were booked to come in whenever they needed you, no consistency, no chance for a normal sleeping pattern. For awful pay (£5.02/hour) working for jerks, not good at all.

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My is fairly screwed.

I get up between 4:00 and 4:30 to get to work in the week, then I get home between 19:30 and 20:00. Some times I work from home and sleep until 8:00.

When I'm in Denmark every other week they are 1 hour ahead and I get into the office for 8:00 so I need to be up at 6:00 to go to the gym... Which is 5:00 uk time... Generally stay up pretty late when I'm there too.

Weekends my body does not know what to do.

Originally Posted by thulfi

As in that's a long day mate, by anybodies standards. 48-72hour shift is James Bond business mate.

No worries, the term MI6 seems to have all sorts of meanings.

I wouldn't call it a shift. I'll grab a bit of sleep if I need it, but the bulk of it comes in one go every 2-3 days. It is a hangover from Uni, travelling to and from Uni and building a business through that period.

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My most tiring stretch is the night shift bit, if I'm on shift first night I'll get up at the usual time in the morning, go in for 1900, out at 0800 - I usually only sleep for 2-3 hours and then I'm back in for the second night shift. The following day I don't bother sleeping and go up to bed at around 2000ish, so by then I've gone around 60 hours with very little sleep, that's when I get sinusey and ratty

I used to go to the club for a few games of snooker after my second night, to help me sleep early evening, but I can't even manage that these days!