Ok. Here's something I'd like to know just as a general "get to know you" sort of thread.
When I first started working as a tech after i graduated I enjoyed being able to work the 3-11 shift. It was a nice change from the random hours i'd worked as a part timer mall slave during my college years. and i'm not a morning person anyway-being able to wake up around noon and go to work at 2 and NOT hit rush hour was an absolute blessing to me.
Of course, money became a priority so i would pick up any shift i could. I was PRN and the place where I worked (at the time) had no compunctions about letting anyone work almost as many hours as they could cram in as long as you didn't break the 20hr a shift rule and you weren't full time (didn't figure THAT one out til much later-joke's on me i suppose) and I discovered I needed at least 8 full hours between shifts (yeah, sleeping for 5 hrs and then going back for any amount of time was not only murder, it was vocational suicide) and finally figured out 12 hr shifts over night were PERFECT. It gave me enough time to go home and sleep and then go back to work and the shift differential didn't hurt either. Except for the few times I signed up for 60 hours in a week and started losing all sense of time, I've always enjoyed the night shifts. I simply had to make sure my patients were asleep at the assigned time and then worry about charts, admissions, and rounds. Except for the hell nights when we'd get 7 or 8 admissions in the course of 5 hours, I rather enjoyed myself. I've now taken on a position as a sort of tech at a special education clinic and have had to go back to the day walker lifestyle (although i find myself able to live with myself alot better regarding the care of the kids than my previous patients) but I have never gotten over how great it was to work overnight.
So, after that long and windy introduction, what shifts do you ladies and gentlemen enjoy working and why? I'm sure there are a few good stories.
