G'day Keith,



13 Oct 96 12:40, Keith Richardson wrote to Rod Gasson:



 RG>> feel/felt that any extra allowances paid for shift work should

 RG>> go to those poor buggers that had to get up at the ungodly hour

 RG>> of 7am.



 KR> how long did you do these jobs,



I had several such jobs lasting several years each.

I generally left one to go to the other either because it was

cleaner/easier work, or offered more money for less work :-)



From the ages of 15 through to about 24-25 I'd also had a number of

day jobs that I could only hold down for a matter of weeks/months

before I gave them up in preference for an afternoon shift job.



It all came to an end when I got into the electronics game with a day

job at radio rentals..  I was able to cope with this though because

although I had to get up early to be there on time, the work was so

slack that I could literally sleep for a few more hours after getting

to work before actually doing anything 



 KR> known quite a few people who went into shift work feeling like that,

 KR> but 2 years later they were trying to get out. personally i am an



The only reasons I got out was 'cos I was offered and easier or higher

paying job.



 KR> evening person, for preference, i'd go to bed 2am and get up in the

 KR> late morning, but doing real work at midnight or later is much harder

 KR> than during the day, and working hours like that put strains on most



Nah. I dissagree ....  For the most part, the afternoon/night shift

workers did just as much (or more) work, in less time than the

dayshift counterparts. The exceptions generally being the 'day' people

that only did the shift work for the extra money.  Alas, there

were/are a number of such people like this.



 KR> relationships. it is my experience that work done after midnight is

 KR> rarely done as well as work done during the day, when i was

 KR> scheduling stuff in my last job, i found that i'd have to allow

 KR> 30-50% more time for the same job to be done at night rather than

 KR> during the day, and often it wasn't done as well either.



I can only assume that you are not really a night person then.



 KR> that there is a big difference between being an evening/night person

 KR> when it comes to doing things that you enjoy, and doing hard mental

 KR> or physical work in the middle of the night.



The same can be said for a 'day' person too.

FWIW, most/all of my night jobs were of the hard physical type work.

(Electroplating, die casting, foundry, machine shop, etc).



As for 'mental' work...  I tend to fix most of my bastard VCR faults

during the evening rather than the day, and generally have an easier

time of it.



 RG>> I agree that we would be in the minority, but I doubt that it

 RG>> would be as low as 0.5%



 KR> well, i did shiftwork of one sort or another for a total of 11 years,

 KR> working with several hundred others during that time, and i'd put the

 KR> proportion that actually enjoyed shiftwork at about that.



I've done shiftwork for about the same length of time, probably with

as many people, and I'd have to say that the *majority* of those doing

the same shift prefered it rather than the day shift.



It is/was the rotating shifts that really pissed most of us off..  one

week day shift, one week afternoons, followed by 1 week night shift.



I've no explanation as to why your experience would be different.



Cheers,

Rod



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