no, this is not a set-up to a joke

[aruan]

The other night, about 8:30 in the book-in office of the Polk County Jail, I was flipping through the day's arrest reports when a preacher walked in. He asked the clerk about someone he was bailing out, then turned around toward me. He glanced at his watch, then looked back at me and said, "Thought I was the only one still on the clock."

Which got me thinking. Workaholics excluded, whose regular business hours include 8:30 p.m.? Besides the good father and I, off the top of my head: tech support, retail and food service jobs, prostitutes, exotic dancers, cops, cabbies, theater employees, hotel staff, caterers, pilots, airport personnel, bartenders, gas station attendants, truckers, tow truck drivers, chauffeurs, hospital staff, etc.

Anyway, the point is the list got long. Which is interesting, because a lot fewer people work the traditional Monday-through-Friday 9-to-5 grind pop songs love to lament (pop singers!) than I assumed. Personally, I work Friday through Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., and it's really bloody annoying to listen to the DJs on the radio cheer about how it's only a few hours until the weekend on my Monday morning.

So, what are your work hours?

Comments

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

You know, since I don't have any friends in Lakeland (not a bad thing), the "weekend" as it is doesn't really mean anything to me, and Brandon's schedule is about the same as mine which is what's important. That and this schedule lets me sleep in and stay up late, also tremendously important.

But back on topic, what did you friends do that left their weekends and evenings so conventionally open?

[amy13.livejournal.com]

I worked nights for a long time, as I said - and WOW did it take me a long time to adjust to getting up early! I have to be careful not to stay up too late on "work nights" because if I hit 1/1:30 am my body goes, "WEEE! 2ND SHIFT!" and I'm up! ;)

7 of them teach in once capacity or the other, and while they aren't always out at 3:30, and they have the occassional parent-teacher conference, and they have lesson plans and paper grading to do... they all teach elementary ed and at least play it off like they're all nice and open on nights and weekends.

1 works in social services down town - gov't building, gov't job, baby!

1 works in project management for a large company.