10.20.2010

Graveyards

Whenever I'm at work I can come up with a million and one things to blog about, mostly because I have a lot of time on my hands.  I am by my nature a night owl, at least I was when I was younger but I do realize that graveyard shifts are not the most conducive thing to my social schedule.  It is kind of nice that I can choose to sleep in the morning or in the evening, thus freeing my day for other events if they should come about, but still, well, I have to say that Grave Yard Shifts kindof suck.

I've never worked a job consistently on graveyard before (there is a first for everything) but the work is rather easy in the scheme of things.  I can just go into autopilot and let my mind wander.  It's not a retail job afterall (which I was dreading the possibility of going back to retail, Nooo!) but in the long run I would rather be doing other things. 

However, it does keep me humble, as I need to do something productive to contribute to the household, and this job kind of found me (long story).  If left to my own devices, I would go strictly housewife routine, and my husband would probably tell you I'm not a very good housewife.  See, I lack domestication, being super independent before and addicted to the internets.  But I vow to get better, starting with learning to love how to cook.  My husband likes food, and is old fashioned in that regard.  He'd probably like it better if I didn't work graveyard shifts too, but alas, until I find another source of income for me to contribute (preferably from the home) I'll keep working this shift.  That's motivation for me. 

I just have to find the right job.to do.  Anything to get off the graveyard at this point.  Aside from retail.  And fast food.  I draw the line somewhere.

1 comment:

Haji said...

I saw a lot of myself in that post. I have only worked a few graveyard shift jobs in my life, and I'm done with it. I always refused to work fast food, although as a job coach for a couple developmentally disabled clients, I saw them from the inside. I'm not great at cooking, but I like it a lot and I'm getting better at it.

Jobs are funny things. I'm not making anywhere near as much money as I would like to be, but I love what I do, because my job is dealing with Soldiers, talking about guns and gear. At some point my employer is going to get big, and I'll get compensated for all this time...but I'd probably do it just anyway because Soldiers are the coolest people.