With my rotating 12hr days this week nights next week that are turned into 16hr shifts 92% of the time my sleep scedual well what is that. Even when I have the chance to sleep longer it's seldom more than 4 to 5 hrs. Except once a year or so when the 34 hrs with out sleep two or 3 tome a month catch up with me and I crash for 23 to 16
hrs.
Having most of October and Nov off on Vaction showed me hoe much better I can feel living like a human after years of this crazy stuff. Sp i know I need to make some changes. Infsct my stomach had not been right since I got back to work. It just plain not healthy
I should be asleep now. Got off my last 16 of the week this morning at 11am drove 127 miles home took a short nap. Got up . Ever has been in bed a few hou r s Nad I can't get to sleep. It's always like this.
Friend of mine ...was self employed and Driving a logging truck. Putting in hours like yourself..... finally caught up with him at age 47... had a heart attack....and lived. He is no longer in the fast lane....had to pull ovah and take it easy. A little FYI ....time is more important than money.
This has been a realization I have been having the last few years with my health scare im a touch slow with the I m no longer 20 and bullet proof realization. ( possible ms, low back issues for sure) hopefully in the next year I will back off a bunch. Even debated changing to day shift In January but will only get 8 days off 2 at a time if I do that. Now with my scedual I can take 14 days off a month and 7 of those are in a roll. (If I don't work them) ut I always have that option if I want where I will not have the option if I move to strait days. Biggest issue is I travel for work and dont see my family or get home when I'm working. Yes I work many of my days off now and the 2 after getting off night shift are useless but I do normally take at least t of my 7 off in a roll each month.
Sadly my plan it to work even more than I have been the next 6 months. But that should get my rent house paid off savings to where I will be ok if I don’t work for over a year. And hopefully roofing so I can put a new roof on the house this summer. That will basically put me at debt free and we'll beyond. At least untill that zero % on those Kubota tractors bug bites the next time my old 1965 international breaks down when I need to get things done.
It's a good plan tell I fall over dead, have a wreck, or just get myself unto trouble being short tempered being tire and not feeling well. And of course somethings WILL come up and really slow the progress of the plan they always do. But at least I finally admit I need to slow down and make changes. Problem is that was worse becuse it mad me want to work even more to get things where I want them before my health might stop me from working as much. What can I say guess I'm not very smart.