SAYUNCL

it's dark...can't see the scratches lol and

donald4972

I worked the same career, my entire working life. I just retired about 4 years ago.

For 41 years, I was 'on call' 24/7. I never ever worked a regular shift of any kind, any hours. Never ever had 'regular days off', in the conventional sense. Except for Vacations, of course.

My job had it's good points, and it's bad ones too. But long ago, my Dad said, 'you have to work, No ones going to give you anything in life, you can't be a bum'.

So, I worked....

Don

SG Lou

I have been doing shift work for 34 yrs, half of it was 3 8 hr shifts, the rest has been 12 hr shifts. Matter of fact I'm here now as we speak !

SAYUNCL

same...my old man said to work so I retired Navy and now I'm almost retired from this gig...soon I'll be "retired" down in Florida but I'm sure I'll still do something

SAYUNCL

ditto...here now lol...my current schedule is 7-7 Wed-Fri and every other Sat so I'm on 3, off 4, on 4, off 3...so every weekend is either 3 or 4 days...really dig the time off (and the extra pay for nights)

SG Lou

We got a great shift rotation.. Takes 28 days to complete the cycle, out of those 28 days I work 14 and I'm off 14. My Short swing is a day and a half off, my long swing is 7 days off in a row. Work 2 weekends ( Days and nights ) off 2 weekends. For us too it's either a 3 or 4 day work week.
Oh and the best part is when we work 4 days that's 48 hours. Union contract states anything after 40 hrs is time and a half .

C.Lunn

Work nights. No bosses is always nice. Work 12hr shifts of 2 on 2 off. Just sucks trying to switch back on my weekends off. The vette comes to work on the weekends when I don't have to worry about people I work with and traffic.

leadfoot4

Consider yourself lucky, in that you were able to voluntarily swap shifts with a co-worker. When we were down to just 2 shifts, instead of 3, we couldn't, and we all were forced to rotate. For some sadistic reason, upper management felt it was necessary to drag us through the mud of shift rotations, while they only worked days....

mstromquist

Night shift here also since 1999. Keeps me out of the 120 degree sun during the summer months so I really don't mind.

Dave1

Yep, night shift during the summer is the way to go if you have to work outside some....

We work 4 10s with three days off every week....

ArtClassShank

Nice in the summer, bad in the winter. 15 degree cold starts and the car isn't warm until a 1/3 of the way home.

knewblewkorvette

Wow, nice picture

doublenut9

Very pretty car, you are right dark colors under light at night look killer!

SAYUNCL

grew up in phx...can still be 100 at midnight lol...I left in 86 and have been living near an ocean almost the entire time but I still love the desert and the heat

mstromquist

That's what I work also. 9:15 pm til 7:15 am. Saturday thru Monday's off. I like it so far. I would definitely try to be inside though if I had winter weather down here.

leadfoot4

I live in the "snow belt". Working days or nights, we still faced 15* cold starts, and the car not warming up until I was half way to work. The good thing about the night shift in the winter, is you're going in the opposite direction of the majority of the traffic, so the commute is somewhat easier.

With respect to my working conditions, I worked in the precision optics industry, where we needed "controlled conditions" to ensure the constant quality of our products. Our production facility was 68* and low humidity, 24/7, 365 days a year.

mstromquist

Suppose to be 120 the next couple days. Not going to fun at all and I hope my house A/C will hold out. Being close to an ocean has to be fun.

knewblewkorvette

How does your C5 like those temps? I would think it would run HOT!

mstromquist

It's really not as bad as I thought it might be. It actually came from a cold environment when it was born like me, so it took some time to get it acclimatized to the AZ summers. Little upgrade here and there and a custom tune and he's pretty happy so far. It usually runs just below 200 but I've noticed that the last couple times I've had it out it's been hoovering around the 213-215 range. And that's stop and go traffic. I'm happy with that since it has the AC going as well.

Nyt_Muves

Yep it made it there today...