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-Delivering babies -Fighting fires
-Responding to auto accidents
-Landing aircraft
-Flying aircraft
-Staffing an emergency room
-Railway engineering and conducting
-Shipping of freight
-Captaining of watercraft, both civilian and military
-Running law enforcement patrol/security
-Addressing power outages
-Monitoring power plants and other utilities
Just of the top of my head.
Are you really so obtuse as to not recognize the vast number of services that don't cease just because it's not between the hours of 9 and 5, M-F? I'm pretty glad my obstetrician and the rest of the hospital staff won't tell me my baby can wait until Monday after 9 a.m. if he happens to be born at 3 a.m. on Saturday, because, hey, personal life.
All of these jobs make personal sense these are SERIOUS EMERGENCIES
however some jobs that are not these jobs can just wait until monday at 8am
Casino staff
Tow trucks
Gas stations
Nursing home staff
residentail school staff
group home staff
on call social workers insurance companies authing psychiatric hospital stays
psychiatric hospital staff
babysitters
suicide hotlines
A lot of people work only nites and weekends. About 1/4th of the workforce work "non traditional hours." Please be considerate to those who do. (like hold off those 10am phone calls)
I agress with all these expect Social workers
Who the hell needs social help at 3am in the morning on Saturday?
I agress with all these expect Social workers
Who the hell needs social help at 3am in the morning on Saturday?
People showing up at battered women's shelters, hospitals, various crisis centers, etc. Not all facilities employ social workers who are on-call for overnight/emergency services, but many do hire crisis workers for these shifts who do have social work backgrounds. One of my best friends is a social worker who, outside her day job for child protective services, also moonlights working the desk for various overnight shifts at a battered women's shelter.
The police then call the caseworkers, who have social work backgrounds. As referenced in my above post. A cop doesn't take care of children when somebody has a crisis call in the middle of the night, they get a protective services caseworker to take over.
The police then call the caseworkers, who have social work backgrounds. As referenced in my above post. A cop doesn't take care of children when somebody has a crisis call in the middle of the night, they get a protective services caseworker to take over.
You'd be amazed at the number/ kinds of jobs that require someone working overnight. Posters have mentioned a hospital, but it's not just doctors and nurses and allied health - pharmacists work overnights (someone needs to be there who knows which drug - substitutions, shortages - and in what concentration and how to titrate it), the hospital floors actually usually get cleaned at night (less traffic) and meal prep for a big hospital starts early in the AM. I loved working nights in a big hospital because it felt like the "essential" staff were there and all the bureaucrats were at home asleep.
Anymore, the world is 24/7 and I have friends in banking/ finance who watch the Asian markets so they are up all night here and go to sleep in the afternoon... anyone who works in journalism knows what it is like to be immediately available to cover a breaking story. All kinds of advocacy and even social marketing/ research (one example is anti-smoking campaigns) do a lot of work at night.
It's hard on my body at this advanced age to work nights, but I love working weekends and holidays. I love having weekdays free for appointments, get my grocery shopping done, etc. I also like working a really long day and having a few days off a week. Not everyone enjoys a M-F grind.
The vast majority of custodial staff work overnights at some point in their careers, or late into the night. There is a large amount of facility maintenance that isn't most effectively done when nine-to-fivers are there, working.
OP, what you're also forgetting is that many manufacturers (yes, they're still around. Hipsters just don't go where they are) run 24 hour operations. The cost of shutting down and restarting would be prohibitive. Once you cool some machines off it takes a full shift to get them back to operating temperatures.
Examples of 24 hour manufacturing would be plastic, glass and steel. Coal mining is often a 24 hour operation.
If you haven't noticed a lot of roadwork is now done between 9PM and 5AM so as not to interrupt the majority of people going to and from work or otherwise going about their daily lives.
One of my knocks on many of the local businesses here is that the owners have the same mind set as you and are not open when their potential customers are available. The business owners then constantly complain that they aren't selling anything.
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