Has anyone here worked 25 hours straight?

[tywest]

Done a few 48'ers myself and you get waves of energy along with exhaustion as well as the mental fog

I dont recommend it if you can avoid it, its unhealthy. I worked 4 jobs at one point for a month and thats all i could muster on 2-3 hours of sleep a day (naps not a full 2-3 hrs of sleep). Never again unless life depends on it

 

[CostaRicaBound]

Back when I was 41 years old, I faced a fork in my road that gave me the choice to do the right thing and work ungodly hours or duck out. I chose to do the right thing, much to my detriment. I worked 20+ hours a day, 7 days a week, for almost 5 months straight to make things right. You get used to it after a little while and your body clock adapts. At 21, you have much more adaptability than I did at 41....but I still did it. And I must say, that by choosing to do the right thing, although at the time it looked like a turd any way I saw it, helped me more than I can imagine. Put your time in if you have to, especially that you're young and able. Do the right thing. It'll come back to you in folds.

 

[CostaRicaBound]

I say t my detriment....because I remember how little sleep I got and how much of a zombie I must have looked like for that summer. After I was done, I slept and slept and slept......

 

[DanKATL]

Many times 36- 48 at a time, usually involving a sizable profit in the end. Lots of food, fluid and coffee; after a while you go on auto pilot and then at some point you hit a wall and are out. The longest without any sleep was about 72 hours, I slept for 24 after that. I remember very little of those 72 hours. That was a a few (10+) years ago and I would not choose to do it again.

 

[North Ga Hillbilly]

Just got in from Detroit, with a wreck in KY it was a 14 hour drive, three stops for gas, after an 8 hour job wrap up... not the most fun, but its not the first, and not the last I'm sure.

NGaHB

 

[squirrelslaying101]

GOOD LUCK.:thumbup:

 

[Tazz]

I got stuck doing a 24 hour shift earlier this year and I'm 54 years old. I DO NOT recommend trying it at this age. I did alright until the 45 minute drive home down long dark roads, I fell asleep at the wheel three times! Fortunately I didn't overreact when I went off the shoulder of the road or I wouldn't be typing this right now. I told the people I work for that I would quit before I'd ever do that again.

 

[SuperMario92]

Back when I was 41 years old, I faced a fork in my road that gave me the choice to do the right thing and work ungodly hours or duck out. I chose to do the right thing, much to my detriment. I worked 20+ hours a day, 7 days a week, for almost 5 months straight to make things right. You get used to it after a little while and your body clock adapts. At 21, you have much more adaptability than I did at 41....but I still did it. And I must say, that by choosing to do the right thing, although at the time it looked like a turd any way I saw it, helped me more than I can imagine. Put your time in if you have to, especially that you're young and able. Do the right thing. It'll come back to you in folds.

Well I wussed out. It would have made my performance at my other job suffer. I would have had to leave my other job 10 minutes earlier.everyday and made my coworkers pick up the slack. Its a shame the.shifts were so close together. Anyone know who's hiring for a part time morning shift?

 

[attison]

Im a firefighter and our shifts are 24hrs. We have bunks, and can sleep at night if there are no calls, but the station I work at is the busiest in the county, so we very rarely sleep. Over the years Ive done 72 hour shifts, and THAT sucks. But the 24 hr shift you get used to. I couldn't do M-F 9-5. To me THAT'S brutal.

On a 24 right now as we speak lol. Yeah sometimes we do work 24 + some. I work here then 2 more part time jobs. But me and my Engineer were talking today........a 5 day a week job scares the heck out of us. What most call normal job hours scare me to death. Military we would be up for 2-3 days straight.

 

[oldford]

I work overnight. Had a second part time job before work. Did it for months, its not hard once or once in a while, but day in and day out everyday will get you. My main job is machinist one night I made a really stupid extremely expensive mistake and decided to leave the part time job.
Being focused on the better paying career was more important than the money combined to me. And a better relationship with my girlfriend and more time for friends is a big plus as well