Oh on call

For five weeks a year (not in a row, thank goodness) I have the pleasure of being on call for a week at a time. For the last couple times I have been on call the weekend has been pretty manageable but on call during the week has been a beast. This week is shaping up to be consistent. It is hard to be on work mode all the time and be woken up in the night with calls and have to be on your game.

I am finding as I get older I don't rally as well as I used to. I used to have to take the calls myself when I was a line worker and I would just bounce out of bed, call people back, go out in the middle of the night and after all of this I would go back to sleep in nothing flat. Now I have a hard time waking up when a worker needs supervision and an awful time falling back asleep.

I have to say the best on call week ever was when I was on call when I had the week off from work. I didn't have to worry about being woken up because I didn't have to go to work the next day and could sleep as long as necessary. And I didn't have to think about work for part of the day!