> >> All my neighbors have normal hours unlike me. << > > HA! What's normal?? I am lucky, tho, in that I work> my 40 hours(well, 39 > > actually) in 3 days, so even with> my second job every other weekend, I > > have more days> off than if I worked a regular 5 day/8hr/day work week.<
I am the same, I have been night shift for more years than I can remember and I just never let it get in my way. I am a nurse and prefer the work comraderie of nights so I have less stress than if I worked days, I don't rotate from days to nights at the job so I think that it is better since I am less stressed in the job and I get a 25% shift differential that I hope translates into better quality of life and maybe 25% longer life too! Wouldn't that be great. The NIH released a study a couple of weeks ago saying more women who work night shift get breast cancer than women on days. They forgot to mention that more people who work night shift are overweight and the biggest contributor to breast cancer other than genetic influence is obesity. I wish I could have gotten the money for that study. And I am not saying everyone who works nights is fat, I am but I am working on fixing that. I said earlier I rode my horse yesterday, and I did it when I got off work from a 13 hour shift that morning, feed the chickens, geese, peacocks dogs and all 15 horses. Then I tacked up and went riding. I just got about 2 hours of riding which should fix me until this storm front leaves Maryland and I went to bed after the ride. My friends think I am crazy but I love to ride and not many people can ride on the week days before it is dark so I get riding buddies when I can and just alter my schedule to match everyone else. It doesn't seem like a chore if it is something you love to do. Even I can't get my husband to go riding with me but I get so many other things from him, that I don't nag him to be a riding buddy. I just mentioned that since I know so many people who get husband horses only to have to sell them because the husband isn't really into it like they are and they end up fighting about it and eventually have to sell since the guy didn't really want it to start with. My hubby has said he wants a quarter horse but I would have to give up one of mine before he got one. I told him I couldn't and since he doesn't ride but once or twice a year, he could just ride one of mine. I bet I am one of the few who won't get a husband horse since I am too stingy to give up what I love and couldn't part with anymore than my own kids. Sorry to go on and on but I got on a roll and then got lost. Trail riding is so darned addictive. I wish everyone on the list could live within 2 hours of me so we could ride all the time, sadly, no one is close that I have seen post here.
