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My favorite schedule was 3p-3a. Sleep in, go to work, busy during the day, slower and relaxed at night, home and asleep by 4, and even if you sleep 7 hours, you're up by 11. Doesn't screw up sleep pattern too much for your days off.


My current schedule is a 16hr shift, from 8a-midnight. Not too bad.
 
Linuss said:
My favorite schedule was 3p-3a. Sleep in, go to work, busy during the day, slower and relaxed at night, home and asleep by 4, and even if you sleep 7 hours, you're up by 11. Doesn't screw up sleep pattern too much for your days off.


My current schedule is a 16hr shift, from 8a-midnight. Not too bad.
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Neither of those shifts are bad, 0300 is about the latest I'd be super happy about. Our call volume drops at night, the problem is so does the staffing so you are still about as busy during the day, a little less but I've still heard of night trucks doing 10-12+ transports.

8-midnight is pretty nice, the only problem I see is after you add in commute time + getting ready and winding down your sitting at about 6 hours of sleep max then add in the possibilities of late calls and I could see that getting rough. Our 16s have staggered starts 0600-2200, 0800-midnight then 10-0200. Others run a "split shift", they alternate between the standard 3x16 with the staggered start and 4x12 with a single start time. I haven't worked that schedule but I hear it's pretty nice. 16s can get long sometimes.
 
We work 0700-0700...and when you have a transfer to Portland at 0300, the next day gets completely wasted with sleep. That being said, I still like our 24 hour shifts.
 
fast65 said:
We work 0700-0700...and when you have a transfer to Portland at 0300, the next day gets completely wasted with sleep. That being said, I still like our 24 hour shifts.
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We used to have a 24 hr car, they had their own apartment and covered the southern end of town. From what I hear it was a 24-12-12 shift and the 24 hr days could be ruthless, running for almost the entire 24 hours.
 
Helping a friend move out of his house tomorrow. After 5 years of wanting a divorce, 3 years after going to a lawyer and changing his mind, he finally got all the stuff done.

But the kicker is I don't think his wife (ex) completely knows about the divorce. So we are moving out all his stuff while she is at work. She is getting the papers later tomorrow night. I hope she doesn't come home early...
 
firefite said:
Helping a friend move out of his house tomorrow. After 5 years of wanting a divorce, 3 years after going to a lawyer and changing his mind, he finally got all the stuff done.

But the kicker is I don't think his wife (ex) completely knows about the divorce. So we are moving out all his stuff while she is at work. She is getting the papers later tomorrow night. I hope she doesn't come home early...
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Yeah I don't see that ending well for your buddy.
 
Aprz said:
I feel a lot more productive when I sleep during the day and work during the night, lol. Feeling good.
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Same I get all my energy at night
 
NVRob said:
We used to have a 24 hr car, they had their own apartment and covered the southern end of town. From what I hear it was a 24-12-12 shift and the 24 hr days could be ruthless, running for almost the entire 24 hours.
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Yeah, we get our own quarters, but lately we haven't been seeing them all that often...
 
fast65 said:
Yeah, we get our own quarters, but lately we haven't been seeing them all that often...
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I wonder if it's nationwide. We've had a pretty solid increase in call volume lately. They've had to add a couple more units per shift to keep up, and this is our "slow" season, if the trend continues this summer could be real busy.

Reno/Tahoe is making a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022(?), if I'm still around I can only imagine what that will be like for us.
 
NVRob said:
I wonder if it's nationwide. We've had a pretty solid increase in call volume lately. They've had to add a couple more units per shift to keep up, and this is our "slow" season, if the trend continues this summer could be real busy.

Reno/Tahoe is making a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022(?), if I'm still around I can only imagine what that will be like for us.
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I don't know, but most we've had a lot of IFT's lately. However, our 911 call volume has increased a little as well.
 
On Monday, I'm working a pseudo 24 hour shift. I'm scheduled for 0800-1800, 2200-0800. 4 hour break. :P

My regular shifts are 2200-0800. It's so slow at our station 91-2 calls a night, they provide beds, our supervisors are okay with us sleeping, but I first tried staying up wanting to be ready for calls, but then I decided I wanted to be paid to sleep, but then it sucked getting interrupted sleep and I'd end up sleeping at home anyhow for a little bit, and none of my friends or family are free during the day so I was bored so I decided to go back to staying awake at night, and it's been pretty productive.
 
NVRob said:
I wonder if it's nationwide. We've had a pretty solid increase in call volume lately. They've had to add a couple more units per shift to keep up, and this is our "slow" season, if the trend continues this summer could be real busy.

Reno/Tahoe is making a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022(?), if I'm still around I can only imagine what that will be like for us.
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I don't know what it is lately but even with an extra truck on the road we are still slammed. I'm running late almost every day and we run from the time we go in service to the time we go out of service and we go out of service late. There's no time for food.
 
We make time for food every time we drop a patient off. We can chill at the hospital for 20 min no questions asked. Which is good when the nurses don't take forever for patient transfer... Sucks when they're slow.
 
NVRob said:
8-midnight is pretty nice, the only problem I see is after you add in commute time + getting ready and winding down your sitting at about 6 hours of sleep max then add in the possibilities of late calls and I could see that getting rough. Ol
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Our 16s never work 2 days in a row (unless you volunteer for ot). 1 on, 1off, 1on, 1off, 1on, 2off. So you can sleep in all you want these next day. Getting held over doesn't ruin you as much.


However our 12s tend to work 4on, 3off.
 
Linuss said:
We make time for food every time we drop a patient off. We can chill at the hospital for 20 min no questions asked. Which is good when the nurses don't take forever for patient transfer... Sucks when they're slow.
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They have been up our butts about our drop off times.

My Saturday partner drives me crazy. He doesn't eat fast food so its really hard trying to find something he will eat that will go quickly.

Last week I begged to stop for food on the way to a call, dispatch said it was fine but make it quick. He wanted to stop at a place that is super busy and you order, then sit down and they bring you your food.
I was like Uhm!!! We have a call that is going to take at least 20 minutes... He didn't understand it had to be QUICK then you eat on the way.

I really wish he'd just bring his food.
 
adamjh3 said:
Took a few Weeks off from the private. First shift back was last night, already hate my life again
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There's a reason I'm only per-diem with my private job. I work just often enough to remind myself why I'm happy it's not my full-time job
 
It makes me sad that I actually had to tell my supervisor to apologize to my partner for saying something offensive to them...
 
Earlier I counted there were 8 California specific threads in the new post section.

Cali is taking over the forum.
 
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I am really growing to hate homework! The kid knows when he get home from school he has to feed the pets, can have a snack, and then he does his homework. This is how it has been every single day since he has been in school. (The only exception to this is if his homework is to read something. He won't comprehend/retain anything he reads unless he has had a bit of a break first.)

This way, the rest of the evening is open for whatever may be planned or comes up. So, why is it then, that of late I have to get on his case every single day to get the damn homework done?!?!?!? If he would channel the energy he spends trying to get out of doing it into getting it done, it would only take him 1/4 of the time it actually takes him to complete the stuff.

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Sorry. I just had to get that out there. He really is a good kid, and it is most likely spring fever, but it still annoys the crap out of me.
 
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