Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Irregular sleep hours and sleep patterns

Ever since converting to night shift about 6 weeks ago, life has kinda transformed for me. I still remed that day my section manager informed me that i might be going night shift, i called ting up and told her that my life will soon be veri different than in morning A shift (Sunday to Tues/Wed). n how right i was.

Ya, i think i'm getting paid veri well. I agree. Of coz i noe quite a few ppl envy my paycheck. Its even perfectly possible to hit 6k if i wan every mth. But there are a lot of intangible things in my life that i've lost working night shift...................... sadly.

1) Weekly sat soccer sessions.......... i've been going w/o fail for lots of weeks while i was in day shift. Nowadays after my night shift even though i'm free on alt sat mornings, i barely haf any physical energy to play soccer liao. So i realli feel left out n sad that i'm missing out all e fun n action.

2) Friday night outings wif class/frens......... its sad that ppl are asking me out on friday nights when i can nvr make it....... not when i'm in D shift.

3) Proper sleep hours and sleep patterns............... i'm officially resting/sleeping at weird hours and for weird durations as well. I sleep when i'm tired and stay awake when i'm not. Haa like yesterday stayed awake for 30 hours then slept for 15 hrs consec. :S super off.

Its interesting in work that u can see the corporate culture/social influence taking place. Everyone wanna do well in work, achieve something reasonable within an expected amount of time. E.g. promoted to management positions in 3/4 yrs? haaa that will prove that they are competent/zai/good/higher recognition/bigger paycheck. Yet i still think its not that enviable, with higher positions come higher responsibilities. N still these so called zai ppl are still working for other ppl, living off a pay check. I prefer to think that the realli good ppl are making ppl work for them and not living off a pay check.

i've become a veri frugal person recently. i'm quite shocked too by my sudden transformation too. Maybe i can realli feel that money is veri hard to earn these days. 血汗钱 u noe? Most important i wanna reach the 10k goal i've set for myself in 6 mths. n that's after paying for e 2k computer loan which tatamounts to 12k in 6mths. Wish me good luck! =)

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