I joked about it at the time, but when I did go to bed, I didn't sleep, I would die for four hours. It isn't much of an exaggeration that I would be asleep in under 10 seconds.
One knows a job sucks when the option of sleeping overrides the need to shave. (Five minutes shaving or an extra five of sleep?)
After falling asleep behind the wheel and waking up to the site of a semi 300 hundred feet away, I finally decided the money wasn't worth it. It is one thing to risk my own life, quite another to endanger someone else's.
Knew a fellow in the Army that could do that at will. Anywhere, any situation, he could just put his chin on his chest and he was gone. I often envied him that ability.
After falling asleep behind the wheel and waking up to the site of a semi 300 hundred feet away, I finally decided the money wasn't worth it. It is one thing to risk my own life, quite another to endanger someone else's.
I had another friend who died that way- sleeping at the wheel. Luckily he drove off the road and didn't endanger anybody else. Sad... That fellow had one of the best singing voices I ever heard. But what you say is right- it's quite another thing to bring hazard to another human.