12.26.04
Not so silent night
I had to work another over night tonight (and yes it is Christmas night [now the next morning]) and what should happen? ….Only the biggest earthquake to hit the world in the last 40 years…Earthquake Rocks SE Asia
Granted I’ve only been here for less than month and I have gotten the shaft on this shift and been kind of stuck here to fend for myself in the middle of the night…but I think I pulled it off alright. It’s tough to try to do something right when you’re at a new job without someone there to ask questions to and make sure you’re doing what you should be. But I think I’m starting to get a feel for this and picking up little things here and there that people can’t really teach you.
I’m hoping to be put on full time soon, and I pray to God that I don’t have to keep up with this shift for much longer. Although I have to say that it does have its bonuses. But I would gladly trade it in a second for a 9-5 Monday through Friday. Most people don’t really appreciate having a regular schedule and getting regular holdays off (like oh say, Christmas). But I can’t even tell from week to week when I may have to come in for these overnights, or if I’ll have to work on what normal people call a ‘National Holiday.’
Only time will tell if things get better, but from where they stand now, they can’t get much worse.