Working the NightShift

I have been working the night shift for 5 years. I am a clock puncher. I never used to be a third shift person, but you got too pay bills. I am liking staying up all night, and sleeping all day. The problem is every body is on another time zone. My wife is so used to me being gone at night, we can barely sleep well at night. I worked unloading the casting furnaces last night. I haven't did that for two and a half years. thiers something exciting about unloading freshly poured airfoil castings out of a blazing hot furnace. When I place them on the cooling plate they spit hot metal around like popcorn.

While I am unloading the furnaces, breathing in graphite and fumes, I can't stop thinking about the people I have known in my life past and present. The people I care about are sleeping and dreaming while I am trying not to get burned, or ram the casting into something. When you fly a Airplane I might have unloaded the parts in the engine. Everybody has a purpose and were all important, regardless of what I or you think about the task. I did not get any time to relax for if I let my guard s down, anything could of happened. People do stuff like this everyday and I do this for one day and I felt like I was falling into a adrenaline rush, that no medication or roller coaster ride could recreate. I swept all of the work areas, cleaned all of the copper plates as big as manhole covers,and was relieved. The buzzer went off and two other people went to take over the jobs Ron and I did.

The left brained world uses time as a measurement, I count the seconds and minutes since working in a shop environment. I can calculate my paycheck too the penny from being a clock puncher. I can sense one hour in my brain for I have a internal second hand rotating around my brain. I can tell you how much money I am not making from not getting offered work on Saturday and Sunday. Everything is dived by 60, 60 seconds, sixty minutes. The trick in a factory or in a clock punching environment is to divide six by tenths. Their are six tenth es in a hour, instead 0f 10/10 it is 6miutes equals a unit. Why am explaining this to you? The environment starts to permeate my logical thinking and I never turn it off.Time cannot be redone, we cannot change the past. I am continuously feeling the Time clock click in my brain.

I envy those who have not been exposed to the Industrial curse that has been thrown on the average person. Those who have not been branded with a meter in their soul, that never stops.

Tony Moulds