When I first started working nights I always found something to do. Maybe I was watching movies or reading magazines or watching stupid videos online. As technology advances we become more bored by all our surroundings. We want more, now and faster than before. We have become a now and my way society as personalization and customization has taken leaps towards predicting our patterns and likes. I find it hard to find hobbies which hold my interest. But I always have something on my mind. I can always sit down and type.
Another year approaching the threshold entering new explorations, new challenges, the same game. Coworkers have came and went a few more than normal this past year and likely more any day now. I am starting to think more like a go with the flow person and less with a complainer attitude. I won't say this year was easy, there were many 12 hour shifts and shift coverages due to long term illness and resignations. Nearing 10 years in the seat behind the headset and at times I feel unwanted, unrespected. Then a day comes up where my officers thank me or have a discussion with me about nothing. But it shows they are people to who maybe forget dispatchers need asked if they are ok too.