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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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TABSenior Contributor04 Jan 2022, 10:14 pm AEDT

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this person would give me 10c for shoelaces for job interview if asked for it @plasmo lol

never got any help financial or otherwise, just used to go for a chat

basically just wasted a year there looks now oh well lol. I just believed what they told me

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plasmoSenior Contributor04 Jan 2022, 10:17 pm AEDT

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yeah i probably wasn't ready and was pretty naive. all the other programs i'd done were the too hard basket for centrelink or ppl not up to intensive job,search

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TABSenior Contributor04 Jan 2022, 10:22 pm AEDT

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yeah guess the difference this time is that I am not walking away as might have in the past , guess less chance of walking into work these days, getting too old, place last time got cut of took 3 months to get back on, not doing that again, so unless get you beaut permanent job (unlikely) am staying on their books for rest of life now lol, just transfer to age pension in 7-8 years , see if can get on DSP before then lol @plasmo

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plasmoSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 2:13 am AEDT

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yeah not sure if i'll look at doing anything, or if im too slack/munted. will be able to get by but im bored, sometimes think i could do labouring work for pocket money

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TABSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 4:13 am AEDT

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I work as tradesmen but a lot of time its labouring plus do your work @plasmo Am not up to it anymore

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plasmoSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 7:22 pm AEDT

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yeah i don't know if i want to, just could be doing better

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TABSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 7:27 pm AEDT

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Oh well think of something else guess @plasmo

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plasmoSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 7:33 pm AEDT

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yeah maybe

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TABSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 7:35 pm AEDT

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Well cant do labouring forever @plasmo

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plasmoSenior Contributor05 Jan 2022, 7:38 pm AEDT

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yeh dunno if i could anyhow, just may be easier to get into. noise would drive me up the wall and working with other ppl

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