Ugly hours

Trish's recent post about Monday to Friday hours just got me to thinking about some of the ugly hours I've worked in my life. Of course there was basic training - up at 5:00 am, but that doesn't really count. I followed that up with a graveyard-shift 11pm to 7am janitorial job. There were the mornings I had to work eastern hours here in the Pacific time zone - showing up for work at 6:00 am sucks, but I didn't have to do that often. I certainly loathed those semesters where I had 8:30 am classes since it took me an hour and a half to get to school... but those would only be three days a week. My suburban commute last year meant getting up at 5:30 to be at work at 8:00. That was unpleasant. But by far the most insane hours I ever kept up on a full-time Monday to Friday basis for any length of time was when I was working two jobs and rowing competatively. Job number one was from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Rowing practive was 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Job number two was 11pm to 7am. I kept that up for three months before I cracked and gave up job number two. Looking back I can't even imagine how I kept it up for that long. On the weekends I'd sleep pretty much solid - unless there was a regatta. Utter madness.