The night shift is not always less stressful. Fast food places are more stressful at night because of a) the bar rushes and b) dealing with drunken people who can't even give an order properly. It's also harder on your system to be working those hours, at least until you're used to it. My body was never used to it, so it was always more stressful for me.

Truck driving is the same, except it's drunk drivers not drunk orders to deal with. I'm on a seventy hour a week schedule ATM, 4 am to 6pm Monday to Friday. You don't get crap done during the week, by the time I get home it's time to sleep then go back to work.

4am - 6pm? Is that even legal for a truck driver? I thought that, by law, they weren't allowed to work shifts longer than 8 hours at all, ever. I'm probably just an idiot, or that may have been for one specific company or something. I dunno. Ignore me. Those hours have got to be killer though. Are the drunks still on the road at 4am, or do you have that shift specifically to avoid them? On the subject of fast food and drunk orders... just kill me now. Thankfully, there aren't any bars near where I work, and the liquor store next door closes at 10, so after that it's quiet. But there's always a big drunken rush right before 10 when everyone runs next door to buy the nights last bottle of whatever.

Really? I hear that all the time, but when I, as a contracted truck driver, offer them even one of my shifts I never get any takers. It's not like it's terrible, only fourteen hours a shift with six of that being driving and the rest being loading and unloading eighty pound boxes of beef. So pretty much anyone with a cdl and four limbs could do it. I've had ads out in both our local papers for a month and I still haven't had any takers for Friday thru Sunday shifts.

Do you train people for their cdl? If it was all local driving, and you'd train me, I'd do it.

I'm kinda curious as to how you fit 5 night classes into two nights.....

That blows my mind. I hope the payoff either now or in the future is immense. Kudos.

Two of them I go to on both Tuesday and Thursday nights. One is a lab so I only take it on Thursdays. One is the lecture class for that lab so I only take it on Tuesdays. And one is a computer course that I usually do while I'm in one of the other four classes I take. So for Tuesday I take two and Thursday I take two, and the fifth I do in one of those classes. It's really not too bad for a 15hr semester because of the way I schedule it and my job actually helps ALOT with school even though I'm not taking any classes for the field I currently work in.. Me and my 4 coworkers have mad multitasking skills from working where we do. Ive studied psychology and human behavior and I know we can only technically do one thing at a time (so if your driving and texting your brain is concentrating on the words your typing and your other hand thats driving is basically on autpilot for a brief moment) but.. if there was anyone that could push that line where the brain decides it can only do one thing at a time it would be us. So doin my online course while still taking good notes (that people ask to copy all the time) in the class I'm actually in is pretty much childs play. I dunno how I did it but everything just seems to have worked out really well so far

Ah it makes more sense that one is an online class. I couldn't figure out how there could be three classes on any one night that didn't have overlapping schedules. But if one is online than it makes much more sense.