True stories from night shift nurses
Routine Maintenance, Station Greyrock I’ve been a civilian contractor for the Coast Guard for eight years, specializing in AIS transponder systems and automated lighthouse maintenance. Most of the lighthouses along the New England coast haven’t had a permanent keeper in…
The Pole Has Been Sealed Since 1994 Station 12 is one of the older houses in our district — built in 1961, renovated a couple of times, but still running with the original floor plan on the apparatus bay and…
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Pickup at St. Dominic’s I’ve been driving for Lyft since 2019. I work nights, generally six PM to about three or four in the morning, because I have a kid in elementary school and nights work better for childcare —…
The Regular in Booth Six I’ve cooked nights at the Starlight Diner for going on seven years. The Starlight is on Route 9 in Coventry, New York, between a closed Midas shop and a self-storage place that’s been “coming soon”…
The Call Light in Room 214 I’ve been a CNA for eleven years, six of them on overnight at Maplecrest Care Center. I work the 10 PM to 6 AM shift, Wing B, which covers eighteen rooms on the north…
Pump 4, Every Night The Sinclair station on Route 191 is open 24 hours. It is the last gas for thirty-one miles if you are headed north toward the pass, which means it gets a steady stream of travelers during…
Dock 7 Has Been Closed Since 2019 The Harcourt Distribution Center has twelve loading docks. Eleven of them are active. Dock 7 has been closed since October 2019, which means the bay door is down and locked, the dock plate…
Rack 14, Row C I work overnight operations at a colocation facility outside Richmond. We run about four hundred racks across two floors of a building that used to be a paper mill before it was gutted and converted in…
Route 9 Terminates at Wickford Landing I drive the 11:40 PM departure out of Central Station — the last bus on Route 9. It runs through the industrial district, past the hospital, along the river road, and terminates at Wickford…
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