Coping with earlies
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Coping with earlies
I have done some searching but couldn't find a thread that answered my questions.
I sometimes find a run of early shifts (5am starts / 4am alarm) causes me some significant issues that affect my home life.
Generally, I find it difficult to shift my sleep sufficiently that I can achieve 7 hours sleep before my first early shift after days off. However, I normally find that after finishing that first early shift I feel quite bright and positive and can easily stay awake all day and then go to sleep easily at about 9pm.
On returning home from successive early shifts I find myself increasingly groggy/tired/headachey/grumpy. The symptoms don't tend to appear until I arrive back home and relax. Even though I might stabilise into a pattern of 7 hours sleep after 2 or 3 earlies I seem to get more and more tired, and with tiredness I get irritable and short tempered!
So how can I improve this situation? I'd just like to add that while I'm at work I don't find any difficulty in staying alert and cheerful even if I only had a few hours sleep. The fug seems to hit me like a ton of bricks just as I park the car at home and sit down.
I sometimes find a run of early shifts (5am starts / 4am alarm) causes me some significant issues that affect my home life.
Generally, I find it difficult to shift my sleep sufficiently that I can achieve 7 hours sleep before my first early shift after days off. However, I normally find that after finishing that first early shift I feel quite bright and positive and can easily stay awake all day and then go to sleep easily at about 9pm.
On returning home from successive early shifts I find myself increasingly groggy/tired/headachey/grumpy. The symptoms don't tend to appear until I arrive back home and relax. Even though I might stabilise into a pattern of 7 hours sleep after 2 or 3 earlies I seem to get more and more tired, and with tiredness I get irritable and short tempered!
So how can I improve this situation? I'd just like to add that while I'm at work I don't find any difficulty in staying alert and cheerful even if I only had a few hours sleep. The fug seems to hit me like a ton of bricks just as I park the car at home and sit down.
Está servira para distraerle.
T'was ever thus and there is no cure other than perhaps to go to long haul.
You could buy a dog and kick that instead of the wife and children?
You could buy a dog and kick that instead of the wife and children?
