Originally posted by p38arover I really began to hate the midnight shifts.
I hear ya! The advantages are few and the disadvantages many.
It definitely takes its toll on the body and family/social relations.
It's not very good for you photography, either!
I was a computer field engineer for many years with a company I honestly believed I'd retire from.
But after the dot com bubble burst and 9/11 I got laid off, along with countless other IT workers.
I applied for over 200 jobs but was called for only two interviews.
I was pretty desperate. Then my unemployment insurance ran out.
I went to the state department of labor to see what sort of job training was available.
They recommended I take another year plus of computer training, unpaid.
They didn't tell me how I was supposed to support my family during that time.
I asked what's the shortest course with jobs available afterward?
I took a commercial driver's license training course, got my CDL and was working within two months.
The pay sucked but at least it kept a roof over our heads and food on the table.
In a few months I changed jobs. I got a union gig and did a little better.
Then USPS called. I had forgotten that I had even taken their exam for Electronic Technician.
I hired on with them ten years ago next month and am financially better off now than I was in my old "career".
If mine was a reinvention I was dragged kicking and screaming the whole way.
Working nights is no fun, but hey, you do what you gotta do...
Chris