I think it’s worth noting that the job nature is road driving, and mostly continuously.
The 6pm-5am can be an average of start/finish. Sometimes it’s sooner (4:30pm-2:30am), and sometimes a later start (8:00pm-7:00am), so I’m told. The goal of the operation is to always have the start time be on the sooner side…obviously I’m hoping for that.
Tuesday & Friday only. I don’t have another job (or kids).
It’s been a week so far of the job integration with what was my plain, everyday 1st shift/morning person life. In bed by midnight, wake 7:30am (without an alarm).
My primary plan to be able execute this new job was to start caffeine on a work day at the beginning of the work shift, not in the usual morning, and adding some caffeine throughout the work shift. It worked OK overall, but, in total- two or three days off have been fairly shitty (energy levels, mood), slowly but surely, as they went…mostly so in the first half of those select days (day off).
That fairly shitty wave seems to occur always *two days* after a nightshift work day… I’m also going through a lot of other life changes, so stress is likely coming from multiple angles (the biggest one being that my home life routine is under construction).
I have to wonder though if the select shitty day slumps have had more to do with the extra caffeine consumption on work days, whereas before this job I’m used to finishing a big coffee mug by noon, and that’d be it. That said, before this job I knew how tapping into an energy drink in the afternoon would make me feel, and I would love it…until the next day, with a caffeine hangover and/or from poorer sleep due to the irregular extra caffeine the day prior.
Any tips at all on how to optimize my weekly schedule from sleep, including naps(??) to caffeine consumption on both work and off-days and specific times, and to even what the best days/times would be to integrate going to the gym to benefit the whole-week energy pacing…
I have ideas on all fronts but I’m a nightshift noob and I don’t want to go a wrong path, so any help from you all would be sincerely appreciated! Thank you.