The young, male shift worker who drives at night Austin Lewis, 25, works back shifts for a Southern California newspaper.

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You name it, I applied for it, including positions as a pet store receptionist, Kentucky Fried Chicken shift worker, pizza delivery boy and cleaner.

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You're the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard-working men and women who don't always make the headlines, but have always written America's story.

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The risk of an accident grows with each successive night shift, so that a worker is twice as likely to have an accident on the fourth night shift in a row as on the first.

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But poor employees are humiliated: the slowest worker on each shift must publicly explain his or her shortcomings, middle managers who fall short are named in the firm's weekly paper, and ineffectual senior managers must volunteer a pay cut.

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On that day, before her waitressing shift, she and a co-worker went to visit a pagoda in Siem Reap.

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That day, as always, I walked into the clinic after school to begin my shift, only to have a co-worker tell me I was to go immediately to talk with the office manager.

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