Shropshine has worked the graveyard shift for 25 years for KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. in Twin Falls.

“I get better sleep,” he said Thursday on a break in his supervisor’s office. “I get better rest on graveyard.”

When he worked days, he said, he’d go home and fall asleep in an armchair without getting anything done. After a night shift, he accomplishes more. “I can stay up and work in the yard for two to three hours before it gets hot,” he said.

Shropshine and his wife raised two children while he worked the graveyard shift. The hours give him the freedom to “move things around. I just make it work.”

He said his internal clock is set for his shift, and he always wakes up naturally in time for work at the corrugated cardboard manufacturing plant.

“I don’t like getting up to alarm clocks.” he said.

“My wife is my alarm clock,” quipped his supervisor, Doug Richter.

Richter, who’s been on the shift since being promoted about a year ago, said it took him a few months to adjust.

“I was one of those people who never worked an off shift,” he said.