The 2nd shift

So, I have survived the 1st shift, the shift from Illinois to Florida. Now I face the 2nd shift, adjusting to a new job. Since we are basically a hotel with a very specific clientele, the front desk and guest services needs to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I was hired on to work the 2nd shift. Its not a bad gig, working 2:30-11 pm. Get to sleep in every day but still out early enough that I can have a social life is I so choose. After one week of work, I fell into line quite nicely. Like I said, get to sleep in. Not hard to adjust to.


To be honest, the weirdest part of the whole thing is the food situation. Instead of 'packing a lunch' for work, I 'pack a dinner'. For years and years, dinner has always been the more extravagant meal of the day. For lunch you throw together a turkey sandwich and an apple and you call it lunch. Dinner has more prep work, there has always been more to it. Not a big deal in itself, you can always make something and turn them into instant left-overs by putting it in some gladware. But, when you are working until 11 pm, when do you make "dinner"? Well, at lunch time of course. Now I find myself dicing and slicing, boiling and grilling, at 1:00 in the afternoon. It's odd to me to be boiling pasta at lunchtime. Maybe that's normal for other people, but that is new territory to me. Not only am I making dinner at lunch time, but I am also making lunch at lunch time. All of a sudden I am running a mini-restaurant in the kitchen preparing multiple dishes for just one person.


I suppose I could always just flip the meals. Make a meatloaf for lunch and a tuna sandwich for dinner. I've had cereal for dinner before, no big deal. Of well, the way I look at it, if this is the hardest "adjustment" I have to make, the 2nd shift will be a piece of cake (you have to have dessert with dinner!!!)