I can't seem to recover my account. I was Genot, haven't posted in forever. The stress lies in the backwards rotating schedule mostly. I worked a 4pm to midnight, 3pm to 11pm, 7am to 3pm, midnight to 8am, 9pm to 5am line one week that messed me up so bad after my last shift I drove to a place I hadn't lived in 3 years, parked, realized my mistake, swore off mids at all costs, drove an HOUR home stopping every 20 minutes for a 16 ounce coffee. I get home at 7am wife asked what took me so long. I zombie shuffled right past her, to the fridge, grabbed a beer, chugged it and passed out for the better part of the day briefly reflecting on the sound of 40 fans cooling scopes in a dark room, alone, for hours, and being completely sleep deprived.
Its not combat, its not the worst thing in the world, but holy smokes 3 days of 4 hours of sleep, ripping up your circadian rhythm? Weekly for 20, 30 years? I work AWS ie 10 hours days now specifically so I cannot legally be scheduled the rattler. I too have seen too many controllers die young or seem on deaths door. The best way I can explain the effect is sleep 4 hours a day for 2,3 days, at midnight pop a sleeping pill in your basement with no light but your computer screen saver (be sure to turn on a white noise machine) speak once sentence every 15 minutes, repeat for 8 hours then drive for the duration of your commute.
