12 Hour Shifts...

United States
April 2, 2007 5:48pm CST
Do any of you work 12 hour shift? I work overnight shifts and sometimes enjoy having the extra days off each week. How does your family deal with the longer shifts. Sometimes, I know my husband gets tired of the longer shifts, but he does enjoy me being home the extra days !
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winterose
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
3 Apr 07
no my shifts were 7 hours but sometimes I used to do overtime, when I really needed the money. Since my son lives with me, and he is an adult it didn't make much different to him anyway.
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hcromer
@hcromer (2710)
• United States
2 Apr 07
A typical shift for me is 11 hours. Tonight I am working from 5 pm to 4 am at a pizza place. I wish I had regular hours all the time because I never get weekends off!
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Brian
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 07
I must admit I've never actually worked a twelve hour shift, but I always like doing shiftwork which means I can work when people are at home and vice versa so that travelling is much easier and shopping is too, I can shop midweek, when most people shop at the weekends. I have always been single so it has never been a problem.