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so today's topic is working at nights

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[Music]

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I'm just gonna talk about what I used to

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do when I was working in the UK as a

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mental health nurse

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been a nurse since 2007 and before I

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came to Japan and whenever I go back to

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the UK for a long period of time I

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usually do some nursing work one because

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I really love it I love being the nurse

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and and two because you know I need to

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answer money just like anyone else so

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well I loved going to work at night and

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I still do first thing is usually for a

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night shift to you you try and rest

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before getting up so while everyone's

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out in the daytime you might be in bed

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or just trying to relax as much as

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possible

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first nights usually the hardest because

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you have to change your routine to get

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into the night routine

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when you leave the house and I used to

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leave the house around 8 o'clock or 8:30

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to start a shift at 9:00 usually outside

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there's not too many people about

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there's not many cars on the streets and

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most people are usually am already at

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home you know trying to relax after a

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long day at work

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so while people are at home they're

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getting relaxed I'm just going out to

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work

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and I like that because yeah there's not

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much traffic on the road either so I

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used to cycle to work when I was in the

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UK and it's nice having the basically

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empty streets

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where I used to stay there was a big

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hill overlooking the town and I was

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staying on the top of the hill so it

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probably dark outside by then that the

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Sun had already gone down so at night he

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got the fresh air it's already dark and

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I'll get on my bike and at the top of

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the hill was quite flat so had quite a

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gentle downhill section the gentle

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gradient so gradient means the the angle

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of the of the slope like whether it was

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high or low but this was quite low so

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for the first part like a couple of

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minutes you just glide along

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and then it'll get steeper and we get

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quite a lot of steeper so you'd pick up

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quite a lot of speed but as I say it was

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nighttime so there was not many people

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around and then getting down to the

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bottom of the hill there was still

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another so with 10 20 minutes to cycle

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to work

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but I did it I used to cycle with my

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earphones in listening to music trying

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to get myself psyched up like getting to

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try to get myself in the right attitude

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for work and remember you know so

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there'll be some cars on this street but

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not many but apart from the cars at one

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point in my journeys to work and on my

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bike I used to cross the road and if I

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worked five times that week I probably

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see apart from one or two cars I'd see a

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fox are tears a fox quite a lot

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you know foxes tend to be quite

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secretive they don't like to be around

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people so I think that's why they like

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to come out at night - so he or he's he

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or she used to cross the road in front

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of my bike and I'd be okay so he's

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looking he or she's looking for some

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food

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you know I quite like that feeling

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because foxes are quite shy create

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creatures or they'd like to stay away

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from humans but that he was like a

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regular he or she was a regular feature

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of my journey to work and they kind of

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cheered me up to see seen that Fox

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for some reason they always looks kind

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of comical to me like they shouldn't be

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part of this world because have you ever

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seen a fox they're quite well the ones

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in Brighton they've got big fluffy tails

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it was colored very brightly it's even

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in the dark he kind of everything else

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was so dark colors

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but this Fox stood out every time I used

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to see it

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it's after seeing the Fox there'll be

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another couple of hills to climb up and

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then cycle down and then I'd be at work

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forgetting to work for nine o'clock in

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that hospital a lot of people did non

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they shift so they'd work for from the

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morning from 7:30 and they'd work until

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9:30 so if sometimes I'd see the same

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people when I when I got to work at

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night at 9:00 the people who were

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working in the day they'd be getting

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ready to go home and I guess they'd be

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looking really knackered you know

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because I'd spent a long day at work and

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a lot of things to deal with but

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sometimes in the morning at 7:30 when we

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were all tired the same people would be

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coming back to work you know so they'd

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have a rest they'd had a night in bed

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and they kind of got refreshed and

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recharged and it would be us that was

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looking knackered me and my colleagues

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and they

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shutting work it was time for a cup of

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tea because usually tried to get to work

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a few minutes before to get myself

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settled in and get my mind ready to

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start the shift and then two or three

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colleagues would come in you know just

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before 9:00 would you maybe a little bit

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after

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I guess people in the UK basically

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they're punctual and they're basically

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there on time for things but it's not

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that strict and at least in the

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hospitals I've worked you know people

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are kind of easygoing as long as we get

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the job done

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but having said that it's not anyways

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after getting settles having a cup of

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tea having a bit of chitchat with chit

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chats talk having a bit of talk with you

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know my colleagues in the day from the

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day shift we'd get on with work we'd

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have a team meeting where the day staff

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tell us what's happened in the day so

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the day stuff give us a hand over so

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they tell us what's happened in the day

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with all the patients so then myself and

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my colleagues who are the night staff

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then we all know what's happened so

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after the team meeting after we've kind

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of got an idea of what's happened in the

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day then there's kind of some routines

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to follow we when I go around the

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hospital check everyone's okay with our

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own eyes we've had a report from the

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day's staff but we also it's good for us

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to actually some meet and greet the

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patients on the in the hospital ward

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so we go around another staff we'll

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start one of the nurses will start to do

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medicine and like medicine that there

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and another staff and other staff would

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do supper though some snacks

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he had ed professor snacks and drinks

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but the patients

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in this hospital it was like 20 patients

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and 3-star fat nights that is a mental

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health hospital

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so that was my speciality working with

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patients with mental health issues

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for now though

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to say that I really loved working I

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still do really love working in mental

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health hospitals they're very unique

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but it's it's actually a nice

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environment if you can put yourself into

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that frame of mind a lot of people say

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wow I can work in the mental health

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hospital be too scary meeting all kinds

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of mad crazy people

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actually it's it's just about life you

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know everyone has a hard time sometimes

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and it's just about supporting people to

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get better and I really enjoy that that

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side of things

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yeah so after giving the medicine out

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and getting supper and set meeting

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greasing people usually people the

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patient stay up until 12:00 and like

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people are going to bed between 10 11

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and 12

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so last people up at 12 or hopefully

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they're all in bed by 1:00 or 2:00 a.m.

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so by that time you know we're feeling

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like another cup of tea again so if

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everything is quiet in the hospital and

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there's no admissions that means there's

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no people coming into the hospital to

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the need to be in hospital from outside

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then we can have a cup of tea and start

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to do other jobs

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we also arrange our breaks when all the

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patients have gone to bed so you know

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usually one person goes off on a break

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at a time and leaves two other nurses

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so after breaks about maybe it's around

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four or five and then the patients may

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start getting up at five or six five or

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six o'clock in the morning

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there's funny thing about mental health

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a lot of people don't sleep very well so

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they may not they you know they may not

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be sleeping for seven or eight hours

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they mind you be sleeping for well not

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at all some people don't sleep at all

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and some people would just sleep for a

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couple of hours and then get up

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maybe cuz their minds too active or you

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know especially older people other

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people who don't sleep much either and

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part of our duty as in the hospital

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outline is to check on each patient

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every

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every hour for patients who are we feel

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are doing okay but for patients we are

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concerned about we check on them every

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15 minutes or every four patients we're

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really concerned about maybe because

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they're suicidal or something we check

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on them where we have someone watching

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them all the time

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so that's called one-to-one observations

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that's when one nurse has to stay with

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that person even when they're sleeping

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you kind of watch them through the door

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or you have yeah you have to have

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eyesight contact you have to see them

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with your own eyes

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there's also another type of observation

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which is called arm's length

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observations and that's when you're so

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concerned about that person's safety you

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have to be within touching distance of

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that person to stop them doing anything

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dangerous if they do something

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is also two to one observations where

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two of you have to be with that person

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either eyes in eye contact or within

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arm's length for that person I loved

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heard stories about colleagues have

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worked in prison have said they've

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worked with patients where it has to be

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four to one or five to one there's four

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people watching one person because that

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person is quite dangerous or dangerous

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to themselves or dangerous to other

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people but where I've worked I've never

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had to deal with that and I guess I

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would be quite scared if I had to deal

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with someone who had to be watched by

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four or five other people because people

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were worried about them and their safety

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though they would punch a staff member

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or they try to hurt themselves

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anyway

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around five or six people started

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getting up a few people start getting up

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and funny thing about mental health

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again people love to smoke so well now

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there's a rule change in the UK

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hospitals people are not allowed to

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smoke in hospital grounds so in the old

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days like two years ago and before

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people could smoke we'd opened the

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garden and people could smoke outside so

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usually the hospitals have an outside

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space a garden or a smoking area where

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patients could smoke but nowadays in the

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UK I guess they've got these new

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electronic cigarettes so some hospitals

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you can smoke the electronic cigarettes

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inside at least if you're in your own

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room

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I'm not sure if that's a good thing or

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not I guess there's less chemicals in

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the electronic cigarettes than real

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cigarettes that you burn with no made

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from tobacco but yeah I'm not sure about

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that

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and then around 7:00 7:30 are depending

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on the hospital the day staff come in to

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replace the night staff so you know

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breakfast starts around 8:00 to 8:30 for

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the patients but before that the day

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stuff come in and we have to give them a

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report like a handover of what happened

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in the night time

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so yeah actually I'm a nurse so I'm in

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the hospital you've got nurses doctors

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another name for them is psychiatrists

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occupational therapists and social

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workers and the cleaners and support

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workers and the managers so I'm one of

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the nurses so sometimes I have to give

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that report to the day staff you know in

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the hospital I'm talking about at night

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there's two nurses and one support

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worker for 20 patients so me or the

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other nurse usually gives the report

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yeah I can give the report and it's not

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a problem but sometimes I find if it's

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been a really busy night my mind is

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really frazzled and what I mean by

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frazzled is ugly I'm tired I don't know

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I'm not thinking straight you know I

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haven't got a good clarity of thought as

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no as when I'm fresh though my thoughts

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all kind of mixed up yeah I find it

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difficult sometimes especially if we're

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really busy and we've been running

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around trying to do lots of things

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during the night

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anyway so we gave the report hopefully

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give a report which is understandable

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and then it's time for us to go home so

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if it's a good night you know say thanks

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to my start where I've worked with a

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nice one good job see you later see you

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know for coming again to work tonight I

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see you tonight

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and he caught a good buzz like if

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nothing's happened like if it all the

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patients were safe if he got away with

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you know a quiet night it feels good

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it's a good sense of achievement

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so after that like get on my bike and

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it's this bike bike ride home now it's

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the opposite I'm going home and it's

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rush hour for people going to work in

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the morning you know the streets all

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busy this time all the traffic's going

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in the opposite direction they're all

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going into the town and I'm going out

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over the town

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again let's

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Brighton's really hilly so there's some

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big hills when you have to climb up and

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there's some big downhill sections and

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probably because I've worked all night

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my head is a bit of a mess and like

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because it's been busy and I'm frazzled

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sometimes I love the journey downhill

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like it's probably dangerous I've got my

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earphones on on listening to loud music

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there's more cars on the road I'm kind

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of flying down the hill on my bike I've

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got a bias as well from work like it's

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finished

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did okay like all the patients were

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alright

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it's a bit of a buzz on the way home

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like a buzz by buzz I mean a good

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feeling and then I get in the house try

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and have a shower first thing because

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possibly the work can be quite sweaty

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and you can kind of smell a bit and

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unfortunately yeah you know yeah you can

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get dirty doing kospi the work because

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sometimes you do have to get your hands

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dirty doing one thing or another

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and then to get myself a wish to have

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some breakfast and going to bed I mean

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that's a very simplified version I mean

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one thing I'd say is that

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my phone kind to bed by 10:00 or 11:00

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is hard to actually sleep so you've been

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awake since maybe eight or seven thirty

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seven the evening before

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with the daylight I've heard scientists

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say it's hard to sleep when there's

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sunshine and these you know I've worked

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at night for quite a long time and that

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is probably the biggest drawback is that

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your sleep can get a bit messed up

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you know it's hard to sleep in the day

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so you have to have a really dark room

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you know try not to listen to music or

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watch TV before going to bed definitely

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try not to look at your mobile phone

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because that would just keep you awake

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and it's really important to get to

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sleep especially if you've got to work

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again that night if you get home at

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10:00 or get home into bed by 10:00 you

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want to sleep as long as possible until

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the afternoon or evening before work

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okay that's a bit of a summary of

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working at night in the hospital and

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there is a few more things I could say

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about it but I'll probably tell you next

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time if that's okay anyway I'd really

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love to hear about

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any jobs that you've done especially if

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he works at night so please if you found

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anything interesting or you want to tell

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me your own story about working at night

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please leave me a comment on everyday

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language dotnet my emails on their smart

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admin everyday language done there

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yeah and thanks for listening hope this

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has been interesting and you have to say

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if you've got any questions about the

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language I've used or in the aspects of

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know anything I've talked about about

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working at night please let me know and

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please tell me your own stories about

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working we're really interested to hear

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about them ok thanks very much bye