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Thanks guys, you made me smile.
In addition to being tired a lot, I think I was getting dehydrated. That doesn't help with the dangerous doldrums either.
A bonus to the second job is that it's basically a workout for 4-6 hours, 5 days a week. Even on our slower nights I'm lifting and climbing ladders and walking and reaching and lugging (sometimes pallets with 4 or 5 heavy wooden doors, or 100s of gallons of paint using a pallet jack) and on our busy nights I feel like I had an Olympic quality workout. If my metabolism wasn't near zero now I'd probably weigh my HS weight right now. As it is, with much healthier eating and the aforementioned work, I've lost weight and I've regained muscles I forgot I even had. So I get discouraged when feeling better physically doesn't always trump feeling crappy mentally.
Oh, and I am now trained to operate the 'order picker' which is a contraption where you drive this thing around and ride the platform up to the top of the bays to put stuff up and take stuff down, and I just have a small test to be certified to operate the reach truck which is a forklift that reaches way up high, and out, to put large palleted stuff on tops of bays. Fun to learn to do, and everything looks good on a resume should I decide to go back to The Wonderful World of Manufacturing.
And I really really like the folks I work with on the night job. They're just a good bunch of people. We work our asses off but we also laugh a lot. It's too bad I couldn't just do that job for a living.
Anyway, again, thanks for your kind words. Lights in darkness.
Oh, foot, btw I don't LOSE cars usually...usually someone rams into me when I'm driving one. "He hates those cars! Stay away from the cars!"
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