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How do you keep boredom at bay in the middle of long nights as a security guard at an underground facility

Times are tough. The current world of gig economy is not as straightforward to navigate for me. I used to do very well prior to the pandemic, but now, in addition to my primary position as a dental assistant, i have to accept a night-time job as a security guard in a nearby manufacturing facility for machines. It's mostly automated, employees work during the day, and nighttime crew is comprised of me and 2 engineers. I have an emergency telephone number that I can dial if there is an issue or machinery fails. I call engineers and/or call the outside line to get more engineers. I do nothing. The company isn't even producing anything in this area, therefore night guard is an ordinary switchboard attendant.
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In all likelihood, I do like it. It's peaceful. I have a hard time getting to sleep at night due the excessive release of gas, but here it's not an issue. While nights can be dull I attempt to speed up the process by trying new things. I've spent the past 2 weeks perfecting the dance that I saw on Tik Tok. While it's not difficult , it's hard for me to reproduce it. The idea was invented by a young Tik Tok girl. I'm not sure what to say about it, I am old..
I've been trying various car-fixing videos lately. Although I don’t have the means to directly apply them to my car, it’s entertaining to see other people's vehicles transform into unstoppable machines. The same is true for DIY videos, - they're usually informative and simple to view. Then I ran into another issue. My internet stopped working soon enough that I was not in a position to access any content or use the internet in any other way. I was capable of downloading Youtube videos and put them on my smartphone. I was able to watch diy videos when the internet went down. It doesn't matter what site you are streaming from, or how you put the videos on your phone, or whether you download the video in your home and then use your phone to view it offline when there's no internet access. It's easy to set up DVR for your online video, and not just TV shows.
To my complete delight, I was able to download new episodes and movies onto my laptop. My laptop is more efficient than my phones and the speakers I carry it with me when I go to work. I signed up for HULU as well as Netflix. Both let you download their apps, and mark the movie to download. Then, in a matter of hours depending on how long the program is, and what quality settings you selected, the video will be downloaded to your device and you will be able to watch anytime, with or without internet. Even though the television is only 15 minutes long it allows me time to catch up with last night's episodes.
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There are many other types of interesting or educational material I can find at home, and then bring along to work to make my time fly by quicker. Youtube's webinars about self-improvement techniques are fantastic. But, it can be hard to keep up with their ideas when the video is interrupted multiple times. If you don't get it, I will explain. In these instances, I attempt to make a plan at home, and download Youtube video in mp4 format to my laptop, and watch anytime at work, no restrictions on wifi, no wifi needed at all the video is recorded on my laptop there is no risk of it going bad, spotty wifi doesn't matter as it's not a requirement for me in this situation.

Sometimes I bring my young son to work with me, it's the days when my wife is working her night shift too which makes it difficult for us to remain home with the kid. Therefore, I bring him along and place him in front of the computer screens, and he falls asleep in no time. However, when he awakes and I hand him my laptop with a few of those freshly downloaded music videos. And as he is watching all those crazy young artists do their bizarre things on the screen and he's happy. I am happy to continue doing my task via the phone.. This is how we get along more effectively, doing our own thing.. But he seems to like joining me on my adventures, perhaps due to the fact that he is awake for the majority of the night, isn't it the kind of thing kids would like to do?


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