For the last eight years or so I have worked twelve hour shifts consisting of two days, two nights and then four days off. The shifts ran from 8 to 8. One guy in the department hates switching so he chooses to work all nights. He is also very odd and anti-social but that's his thing. A guy senior to me has always worked four days opposite Trevor (the odd one) and only had to work nights when Trevor took vacation so it amounted to about 10 night shifts per YEAR! Finally thru advancements and some leaving the department for maintenance etc. the offer of either 7:30am-4:00pm Monday -Friday or four days of 8:00am-8:00pm was presented to me as there were two openings and I had first choice. Taking the Monday -Friday position meant only weekends off and about $6000 less a year. I figured getting rid of the night shift would be worth the loss of our shift premium for nights as it would total maybe $1000 a year at the very most and I would still have my four day off stretches meaning a "week" off would give me twelve days off but above all my first day off would not be wasted either sleeping or feeling like crap from not sleeping. We were going to change things the first of the year but the company said to go ahead whenever we worked it out how to slide in to the new schedule which is completely opposite my present one. I am at work now working the LAST night shift I will have to to for a long time. I got up this afternoon having worked last night and looked online at the work schedule and saw I was marked in to the new shift starting next week. Ahhhhh......fours days off starting in the morning followed by two days then an eight hour day for first aid refresher course then only one more day off and then back to work in the new shift if fours DAYS. NO NIGHTS! Can ya tell I am looking forward too it? 
