I worked 3rds for ages. Everything the meme says is true. But aside from health issues that could potentially popup… Folks don’t understand that it’s 4pm and in the middle of your “night”
I had to remove everyone from my permitted list when my phone was on DnD. My mother, for example, would call at 2pm and ask what I was doing… She never could understand that I was asleep.
I was always the DD for when people wanted to go out… because “you’re awake normally” which is fine. But maybe I want a beer or two at the bar as well.
It’s the small things that weigh on you… and if you’re in a relationship… You’ll never see your partner except when they are sliding into the bed and you’re getting up.
Glad I did it for so long… but I’d never do it again.
I would do 12 x 12 nights on a mine. Saw some cool shit. Light pillars, and northern lights like you wouldn’t believe. A few lynx.
Wouldn’t do it again unless you at least tripled my salary. Nightshift gut is awful. feeling like you’ve got a sandbox in your eyes also sucks. Nothing like changing a tire on a pickup in -50C with no one around… Two nights in a row to support day shift.
My mother, for example, would call at 2pm and ask what I was doing… She never could understand that I was asleep.
This problem is easily solved by following the golden rule
We know that people have different chronotypes. We even know that most people of working age aren’t really morning people. Unfortunately, our business world assumes a standard circadian rhythm and is structured around getting up early because people needed to use every bit of daylight way back when. So that sucks, especially if you’re an evening or even night person.
I find I’m the most productive at 3am. It’s a real shame that I’m forced to sleep through it.
Night owls are also an oppressive class. Drag lives somewhere with thin walls and can’t get to sleep until the night owls are ready too. The parties are the worst.
But that’s more of a “assholes being assholes” thing than it is a “the world is dictated by night owls” thing.
No, the problem could easily be solved by builders putting in proper insulation. They’re not assholes for preferring a different schedule to drag. But the decisions of the political class to permit bad insulation have forced them into conflict with drag in which drag is oppressed. Politicians have transformed drag’s neighbours into oppressors.
Life pro tip for those nocturnal. Even those nocturnal folks need to mow their lawns. For modestly sized lawns, a scythe can be a great option! It’s also perfectly legal to mow your lawn with a scythe at three in the morning, dressed in a long black hooded robe.
To have some visibility, you can use one or two of these head strap lights. But make sure they are red, to not lose night vision
In many cities, nighttime noise level is limited by decibel level. But even low-level noise is allowed if below some level. So you could have some extremely quiet speakers gently wafting spooky sounds while you do this. Or if that’s a bridge too far, whose to say you don’t personally just like listening to Gregorian chants and quiet levels while you work?
My internet is fast
Was this written in 2002?
Some areas may even rely on LTE.
1-3Mbps vs 30-50Mbps is quite a bit of difference.
It also depends on how oversold the links are. I could easily take guaranteed gigabit and sell it to 2 homes as “Up to 1Gbps”. Or 5 homes. How many people would be using the full bandwidth 24/7 anyway. But it can also be far less reasonable. I can sell it as “Up to x” to as many as I want to. Sure, you may only be getting less than 100Mbps now, but if others stopped using the internet… It’s still validly “Up to 1Gbps”. Maybe you’ll get it, one day, or night.
If you don’t have an SLA, you’ll just have to deal with it.
The internet is weird. You’d be surprised at some of the issues that still happen today.
I once had an issue where I couldn’t log into the servers of an MMO, despite my internet being perfectly fine. After much trial and error, I figured out that the reason I couldn’t log in was because while I played on East Coast servers, all login authentification was done through servers at the companies HQ on the West Coast, and there was a local outage of a DNS server or something out in New York somewhere, which meant that I couldn’t reach the login servers. Literally nothing I could do because a line was down several states away and I therefore couldn’t play the game.
It’s a big problem in apartment complexes where one line is CGNAT’d to every apartment. In practice that means 20 people share the same line that a house would have normally, and in the evenings every apartment streaming or gaming can make the speeds shit.
Sucks ass but in the US you can’t do shit because the speeds you pay for are “up to” and if they’re not “up to” that the best you can do is kick rocks.
This also usually coincides with you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now. So you’re locked in to shit nighttime service with slow downloads and giga latency
you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now
Your option is the Mediocre Internet everyone uses or the Shit Internet that exists pretty much exclusively to fulfill this requirement. Fuck Windstream, somehow managed to be worse than Comcast.
I have FTTB and I’m glad I haven’t experienced that. Always the 200Mbps that was advertised
