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Hi everyone,

Kind of ended up in a rather interesting position in my new job. Essentially, I’ve found myself working a split shift. I’m in for meetings and such in the morning, off in the afternoons, and then logging back in to do deployments, installs, and configurations in the evening hours.

I have discovered that I take a nap in the afternoon, and drink more coffee than I’d thought I would. Also, I’ve noticed that my eating habits have changed. Instead of three big meals, I find I’m eating several smaller ones through out the day (I’ve also discovered that my caloric intake is actually less).

Just wondering how many of you find yourselves in the same situation and how you handle it.

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Only time Ive come close to that is when I worked multiple jobs back in College. Not fun cause it seems like working 15 hour days constantly. And getting up just for meetings? Better use of time is reading the notes afterwords and only attending the meetings that are actually important

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I would be questioning the sue or need for the meetings

because then you may find your whole days is completely ruined - ok napping is fine in the middle of the day, but you cant plan anything outside of work

good luck with it, keep is posted how it goes.

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I would probably take a nap too. It sounds like a good option

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That would kill me because then there wouldn’t be enough time in the day to get passout drunk…I mean, there’s enough time, but not if you want to work in the evenings.

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I already don’t have much of a life, but that still sounds like a very unpleasant work schedule. Are you a one man show?

Not that it’s like this in your situation, but I’m a little tired of employers expecting extra work hours with no compensation (financial, time off, or something). You may be working 8 hours a day, but It might feel like 16.

I’d rather work something similar to Sunday through Thursday, Using Sunday for any planned downtime. I’m almost certain people would be blowing my phone up on Friday, though, out of envy.

Last year, it was “required” that I used my vacation time to take off the day after thanksgiving. A day that I had quite a good bit of work planned. Ever heard of that shi#?

Sorry… Just hijacked this thread for my own personal rant!

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During the winter months, we do a lot of updates and roll outs for clients, and a bunch of our teams end up doing the split shift like this.

It hurts for a few weeks while the body gets adjusted to the schedule, but then things settle down and it will seem normal. (as normal as can be anyhow) .

I have never really paid attention to my food intake to closely during that time, but after asking a few of the “workout and CROSSFIT” people here they did somewhat confirm what you said. they tend to eat a bit less. and consume a few extra energy drinks or coffee