best shift to learn on
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Comfortably Numb
You will only learn a limited amount on 3rd shift. It is slow and a lot of posts are not open at that time. The best (and typically busiest) shift to jump into it all on is 2nd shift. If you are a quick learner, that would be the shift to get the most experience right out of the gate. You can learn a lot from the senior officers on 1st or 3rd shift as well though. The majority of your senior officers are on those two shifts typically, and there is a reason for that...
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I'm Drowning
You know that one scene in that one movie where the super-sized, highly skilled, and overly aggressive ex-Special Forces guy is holding the under-sized and unassuming main character by the back of his neck, repeatedly plunging his head into an old dirty claw-foot bathtub full of water that is surprisingly clear, because he is looking for some answer to some question that the hero doesn’t have?... read full story
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