Ferry crews and fridge access

The thing nobody writes about is that a bad reaction on a night shift is much harder to manage than one at home on a Saturday.

I keep everything at home rather than carrying it, and I built my schedule around being at home on that day. Fewer things to go wrong.

What worked for me was very simple food on shift, the same things every time, requiring no decisions at three in the morning.

What I would say is to talk to your prescriber about your actual working pattern. Mine adjusted things once she understood it.

Something I got wrong was doing it on my first night back. That combination was reliably difficult and moving it fixed it.

Coming back to what Prue wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

My appetite on nights is completely different from my appetite on days, and I stopped trying to make one plan cover both.

Reading this at half past six with a cup of tea and nodding at every line.

My rota comes out a month ahead and I now plan around it properly rather than reacting to it, and that alone fixed most of my problems.

Coming back to say the anchor day held through two rota changes and a ward move, which is more than most of my habits have managed.

I have read this twice now. Thank you for writing it.

I do mine straight after my last night, before sleeping, and that has been the most consistent slot I have found in four years.

What surprised me was that my energy on shift improved noticeably at about month five, and that has been the durable benefit.