Is rough, just saying.

For those of you who work the night shift and it’s your life, more power to ya! It’s not for me. Let me ‘splain.

As you know I am in Michigan on a project and Train-The-Trainer, or T3 for those ‘in the know’ is complete, train the end user is complete, of course there will be some new hire training and people who might have missed, maybe they were on vacation or out sick.

Now…it’s time for Go-Live! Flip the switch and it’s magic, new application.

Go-live started at 3am this morning, which was just before I was falling asleep last night, I was not due to be here until 4pm, and here I am, 4pam-6am, just at three hours left to my shift.

I normally work during the day, so overnight is not always the easiest when you’re not used to it. If you’ve been working nights, once you get used to it, you’re golden, but if you’re not…

I’ve done go-live implementations before and after a while you get used to the crazy hours, hospitals being 24/7. Today, you know I’m on 4p-6a, tomorrow, 6p-6a and then next week I’m on 6a-6p. I would rather be on the 6a-6p schedule, when we teach classes they are generally 7a-4p, you have to be there at 6a to prep for the class, so not a far stretch.

As we know, I have a bit of insomnia, so I am usually falling asleep somewhere between 2 and 4am, and since I’m nocturnal, it’s not too bad this overnight stuff, but the first time is a doozie, I don’t have the option of falling asleep if I want to.

It’s all good, soon I will go to the hotel, close the curtains tight, crawl under the covers and zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

If anyone even thinks about trying to wake me too soon…