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This all sounds good unless you work a "shift" style schedule. Every single person I know works what is considered first shift (approximately 6/7/8/9am to 2/3/4
by adjagu 9y ago
This all sounds good unless you work a "shift" style schedule. Every single person I know works what is considered first shift (approximately 6/7/8/9am to 2/3/4/5pm). Some of them have tried second and third shifts, but they always go back to first shift because "second/third shift don't work for me" they say.
Now for me I work better at night/early morning. Because of this I have worked third shift (midnight to 8am) for over 30 years and it works perfectly for me. If I want to be up while first shift is working I can. Or if I want to sleep during first shift and be awake for second shift I can do that too. It is nice to get off of work and do my errands and such without much traffic or that many people in stores. I get my errands done faster which gives me more free time.
Third shift has the advantage that most of the population is asleep when I am working. So when I drive into work at night the roads are mostly empty and when I leave work in the morning the morning rush traffic is moving in the opposite direction that I am.
Another advantage of third shift is I only spend 20 minutes driving to work and 20 minutes driving home from work each day. All the first shift people I know spend at least double that in traffic each day because dang near everyone works first shift.
- meesterdude 9y agoneat! I'm often a nightowl myself, and often reflect on how life would be different if we spread out the working hours for people more - so most places would be 24-hour, and roads wouldn't be so packed.
- adjagu 9y agoIt would be different if each shift only contained 1/3 of the workforce at a time. Rush hour(s) should contain much less traffic volume this way (since now there are what, 3 of them per day?). Overall there would be a slight increase in continuous traffic volume (as in at any given time of the day/night more people would be out and about). I do wonder if cities could benefit from a 24 hour schedule. Sure, during first shift the cities near me are bustling with people and activity. Second shift there are still people about and things to do, but after 8pm or so most cities around here start to look barren. Third shift. Shoot, it's me, the police, the newspaper delivery drivers and pretty much no one else.
- khedoros1 9y agoI spend 12-15 minutes each direction, driving to and from work for my "first shift" job. I think I'd ask for 15-20% more if I had a 40 minute commute, and still resent having to drive that long.
- adjagu 9y agoI could have a shorter commute if I lived closer to where I work, but then I would also run into higher rent. A one bedroom closer to work would be double my current rent and I wold also lose a bedroom in the process. Honestly I enjoy my commute. For me it's not long and I get time to get into and out of my work mindset on the way to and from work. Most of the time I end up listening to classical music or books on tape during my commute.
- khedoros1 9y agoI've never enjoyed driving, and I'm not in a super-expensive area. If I had a longer commute, I'd probably find something more than the radio to listen to, but we're talking about close to an hour a day band-aiding over something I find unpleasant. It's one reason I dread leaving my current job; I suspect I'm going to have to take a serious hit to my quality of life.