Shortest Day & Happy Shift Workers

Is today the shortest day? Dangerous Dave looks at a study that says "no" but it is close. Plus, who are the happiest shift workers? Weed and vape store workers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deuber in the den with dangerous day. Well,
this is welcome news if you're having a bad day.
A bunch of websites reporting that today could be the
shortest day in history. The rotation of the Earth speeds
up and slows down depending on a few things. The
biggest factors are how far or way we are from
the moon. The good news is, if you're having a
rough one, today's going to be about one point three

(00:21):
millisecond shorter than normal. That's just over one one thousandth
of a second that you won't have to experience. I know,
tough time, right. Bad news is you're not going to notice.
Actually it's not a record too. Dailymail dot Com went
back and looked at the headlines the shortest day in history,
But according to calculations, it won't even be the shortest

(00:42):
day of twenty twenty five. July twenty second will be
one point three eight milliseconds shorter than normal. August fifth
will be one point five milliseconds full shy of twenty
four hours. There's an outside chance the Earth spins slightly
faster than expected today, but the shortest day on record
was last year July fifth, twenty twenty four was one
point sixty six milliseconds shorter than normal. It was a

(01:05):
good day. Everybody's nursing their Fourth of July hangover that
day anyway. So and by the way, NERD alert, one
point sixty six is just the record since we started
tracking this stuff with the tomic clocks back in the seventies,
billions of years ago. Experts sink the average was nineteen
hours long because the moon was that much closer. I
could see the moon. You could almost see the crack deeper.

(01:26):
In a new poll on shift workers found the happiest
hourly job is working at a weed or vape store.
Ninety two percent of people working there felt good or
amazing about their job. National average across all hourly jobs
seventy eight percent, which seems a little high, but top
five hourly jobs with the highest job satisfaction weeder vape

(01:48):
store at the top, followed by catering cafes and coffee shops,
tennis office and gym's. Hourly employees at community centers, sit
down restaurants, gun shops also ranked high in job satisfaction.
On the other end of the list, hourly workers at
pharmacies are most likely to feel stressed and frustrated by
their job. Rest of the bottom five Amazon drivers, people

(02:08):
at VET clinics, hourly workers at doctors' offices, and hourly
jobs in healthcare. Those job ranked lower because they tend
to be more draining, both physically and emotionally, so burnout
creeps in Now. Just a side note, gun store workers
are the only job that made both lists. Nine percent
feel stressed and frustrated. So, in other words, it's a

(02:28):
job that you either love it or you hate it. Apparently,
you just have to give it a shot. To me,
they can. For another episode of Deeper in the Den
with Dangerous Dave, play here,