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  • MelonYellow@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•if you work night shifts, do you have a life? Are you healthy?English
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    7 days ago

    Hello! Fellow nurse here who’s always been a night owl. I’ve been doing nights since I first started working. 5 8’s are godawful and soul-sucking. I got depressed, lonely, crabby. Only put up with that as a new grad, I would never do that shit again.

    3 12’s are much better. I could do that and manage a life actually. Helps that I don’t necessarily need daylight to do the things I like to do. I can still watch movies, play my video games, read, watch MMA and football, do home workouts, cook, go out for dinner and drinks, go to a concert, etc. I just need to plan around store hours. So I think in that aspect, it depends on the person and what activities they enjoy.

    Now, currently I’m per diem working nights. It’s the BEST. I mean I’m so fortunate lol. Plenty of work. I set my own schedule. No management around. Shift differential. I can take off for vacation whenever I want, just as long as I fulfill the 4 shifts/month minimum. So let’s say I take a month vacation, I’d come back and grind out the shifts, put in overtime, pay the bills and credit card or whatever. Just when I’m getting real sick of work, I’ll go on vacation again even if it’s just a roadtrip.

    So that’s how I manage my work-life balance. It works bc I’m happy doing it. Helps that my partner and best friend is also an RN picking up the same schedule. No kids, no mortgage, just renting nearby work.

  • MelonYellow@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•An elusive California mammal has just been photographed alive for the first timeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Crazy.

    The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in two decades, Subramanyan told SFGATE: “So it’s very possibly one of the most poorly known mammal species in California.”

    There’s a reason why nobody had photographed a living Mount Lyell shrew. Shrews have incredibly fast metabolisms and will die if they don’t eat every two hours, Subramanyan said. To catch a living shrew, researchers need to monitor their traps constantly. If mammalogists set an overnight trap, they’ll wake in the morning to find a dead shrew. Jain, Forbes and Subramanyan slept for no longer than two hours at a time, checking the traps regularly. At night, temperatures reached 15 degrees.