I had the worst schedule one year. 3 12s for two different companies. Alternating each job each day of the week. It was the worst. I drove to the wrong job on a few days. Fortunately they were understanding and I could just call and they'd let me make up the day whenever. But like damn. I have no idea why I did that to myself if I had asked I could have done the 3 days in a row at each job. If I recall, one job was absolutely awful but the other job at least let you play music you streamed from the internet in your cube and as a musician I can only take so much silence.

Waking up from driving autopilot/transportation psychosis/whatever the hell you want to call it 80 miles away from where you think you're supposed to be is fuuuuun

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ah, geez. I never had that, but in the early 90s when my family moved, I ended up getting jobs at McDonald's and Domino's Pizza. I opened the grill at McD so was up at 4am for a 5am arrival. Worked until like 1pm-2pm, go home, grab a nap, be at Domino's at usually 4:30pm and work until 2am-3am. Although that was usually only a couple of nights per week. I don't remember my exact days off from each, but Domino's was centered around Thu-Fri-Sat and McD was centered around Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu I think. I know I had 4-5 days at Domino's, but I don't remember now if it was Wed or Sun or both or what. Been too long.

So a couple of days per week I got no sleep, then caught up other days. lol. And that was $4.25/hr. heh