Living in America is a song by James Brown that they used in the Rocky IV movie soundtrack. It's one of my favorite songs ever! In it the lyrics talk about people working in all the different things that we do in all the great cities around her beautiful country.
But it's funny how it refers to shiftwork and people doing it to the make a living. I personally have worked shiftwork for much of my 30+ career years. I worked some midnight shifts. I had a job when I was in college that was all midnight shifts and I worked seven straight midnight shifts and then had seven days off from it. The shiftwork that I've done for the past 10 to 15 years has been moving schedule weeks with fixed days off and a couple of evening shifts followed by a couple of day shifts and then either a dayshift or mid shift. I call it the permanent jetlag schedule because it's hard and most the time I don't really know which end is up circadian rhythm -wise. I remember while doing this shiftwork my family and I went to Alaska and the jetlag didn't bother me at all. Everybody else was wiped out by it but I was up and running and felt no issues with the jetlagged because I was always jetlagged from the shiftwork.
The shiftwork actually allows companies and organizations to operate at times when others may not be operating. You doing shiftwork covers time frames when people may need help and they can't get it any other way because they work during the day. The shiftwork that we cover enables so many good things to happen.
Be proud if you work shiftwork. Having a job like that is something that helps us as Americans do better things and enables us to be ready to help others at a moment's notice.
