Gemini Rising

Day in the Dispatcher Life

I wanted to blog today, but my health post about Olive oil isn’t quite ready so I went online and searched blog topics. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. There’s money topics, fashion topics, blog what you know, blog a day in your life, food topics, sport topics, I’m overwhelmed. Haha.

A day in my life isn’t interesting to me but it might be to some people so here goes.

First off, I’m on the night watch my day is your night and my night is your day. I usually get home at 7 am and if I’m lucky, I sleep until 2 pm. I told my husband that if I had to go to the night shift that sleep was a priority because if I don’t get enough sleep I turn into a bitch and I don’t want to be that person. Mind you, I don’t sleep until 2 every day. Mondays I wake up at 11 to take boy #2 to college. I’ll get up at 2, organize boy #2 schoolwork, do dishes, do laundry, run errands, get online check the email and then go powernap between 4-8 pm. From 8-9 I do personal hygiene, eat a light “dinner” pack up and drive to work.

When I get to work, I prepare the coffee. We have roll call and then report to our assignments. For the last 8 months, I’ve been assisting the Training Coordinator Supervisor so I rarely get an assignment to answer the 911 phones. The assignment is a nice break from the phones, but it’s all about paperwork. I review Instructor dailies that they wrote on their trainees, hunt down signatures, make online folders, organize and file paperwork, make sure instructors and trainees have conferences and take assessments. On my lunch break, I usually power nap because I’m tired. It’s not easy working at night. I get off bet 615 and 630 and go home.

If I have down time, which isn’t much, I’m reading or writing on hanging out on WDC.

If anyone has any questions about answering 911 or dispatching calls to officers, I’m game to answer them.