I have just started working a 2 day, 2 night, 2 off shift pattern.
I finish the days around 5pm and start the night shift the following day around 5pm till 4 or 5 the next morning.
Does anyone else have this pattern? How do you work out sleeping for day/night change?
Best i have come up with is to try and stay up as late as possible on the last day shift (2 or 3 in the morning) then get as much sleep as possible, normally 6-7 hrs so i get up at around 10-11’ish (later if i can) on the day i start nights. Then obviously when i finish the 1st night straight to bed, getting a normal amount of sleep ready for the final night.
Then when i finish the final night shift, just grabbing 4 or 5 hrs kip to try and put me back on a “normal” sleep pattern for the days off in preparation for the day shifts again.
I should think it is ! I s’pose you have to take what you can get nowadays, but I’d definitely be looking for something else. A week of nights, then a week of days is one thing, but that’s a ■■■■ take.
I reckon you’d be pretty knackered, pretty quickly… dangerous for yourself and others. Good money is it ?
I’ve seen that shift pattern in security work but never for a LGV job - would take a very particular type of person to do that for driving IMO.
I would think that for most people that would be bordering on permanent tiredness…
