“So you work in leisure? What sort of hours do you do?”
“Some 9-5s but a lot of the time I start at 5pm and work through until late.”
“Ohhh, that must be terrible.” Replies ignorant stranger.
The thing is they just don’t know. There is an amazing secret about working late shifts that the many stuck in the rat race don’t know about…
I hate 9 til 5. I find it a wrench to get up for 8am. To be cognitive and alert by 9am. It’s just not right. By 5pm I’m shattered and then usually spend the evening dozing – a complete waste of the day because I’m powerless to do anything by the time I get home.
When I’m working at 5pm however there is this amazing feeling of waking up about 9 or 10ish and knowing, that if I fancy it, I don’t have to get up. Perhaps in our current heat wave this is a no-no but in mid-winter how great is it to be able to stay in bed until 3pm!
Failing that I have all day to do things. To potter around. Get things done around the house or perhaps go into town – and because everyone else is at work town is really quiet. I can whizz in and out of town and do loads of things in a matter of minutes rather than hours. No pushing or shoving. Then I can just stroll into work at 5pm nice and awake without that horrible ‘early morning head.’
So there you go 9-5’s I’ve shared the secret. Fancy a new job?
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