Lessons learned at overnight guard job
Weather like this, unexpectedly warm days and nights in midwinter (back to that theme again), was exactly what we had when I took a part-time overnight job some years back working in a plastics factory.
No, I didn’t work creating or molding plastic. I was an overnight security guard (night watchman, whatever) at the plastics plant. I had to do foot patrol every hour throughout all the plant, which was empty of any other living being at the time I did my shift. I had to roam among cracking, creaking, cooling machinery in part of the plant, then walk through high stacks of industrial supplies in heavy barrels in other areas of the plant.
My outside foot patrol was very brief, and the temperature differences between the mild outdoor air and the hot, humid air of the still-cooling plastics machines was something else. Thankfully, the mild midwinter was easier to handle than stark “bleak” cold would have been, though.
I learned two very important things from that short-lived, low-paying job. First, I learned to be less “jumpy” and nervous when alone in a large building filled with strange equipment. Secondly, I learned to do all I can to avoid overnight jobs, because the human being was never created to stay up all night and sleep all day. Ugh!
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