Hi Jet.
In the glamourous world of ATC Engineering at the shiney new center in Swanwick we operational Engineers work a peach of a shift pattern. Goes something like this....
NN-LLEERRR
(without trying to sound daft a N is a Night, a - is a sleep dat, a L is a Late and an E is an early. sorry if that was obvious but I'm tired...)
Now the bitch of this is after your 2 night shifts you have to wait about 5 days until you can get a good night's sleep. Also in there we have an Early to Late transition - leave work at about 10pm and have to be at work at 7am the next morning. After working a few of these cycles in a row your drained. I'd be very worried about having to make a safety critical choice on my last Early. Its a female dog to say the least. But we have to work it and get paid peanuts for the extra stress it puts on both social lives and family lives.
I know where your coming from. Do you chaps work shifts, or days or what? I'm interested as I'm trying to put together some sort of evidence, along woth my other colleagues into a good shift pattern that will work and also not make you more tired than going 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. It sounds like what you work is to be avoided....