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The key to night shift is consistency. I do night shift year round for nearly 9 years with this most recent job. I sleep 3pm to 10pm every work day and eat my meals at 11pm,3am and 10am.
I found over the years that the people who couldn’t handle it were still trying to live a day life on night shift. They would try to get through with a short nap in the morning and another one just before work then try and fail to catch up on the weekend. They would eat breakfast lunch and dinner at home then have another meal at work so they were overeating and gaining weight or getting diabetes.
I’ve been doing night shifts the past 2.5 years, and I often do “live a day life” and yet I handle it just fine. I guess some people just need less sleep.
Though I do eat way more snacks than I used to and now you have me worried about diabetes (even though I’ve actually slowly lost weight since I started this job).
It doesn’t hurt in the short term but in the last 23 years I have worked night shift in some form for 16 years. The living a day life will catch up to you eventually.
I have severe central sleep apnea so my sleep has never been normal and I find that it actually helps because I don’t get any sort of jet lag and I can sleep anytime as long as I have my machine to keep me breathing.
Lots of studies show cancer and diabetes rates are higher in night shift workers but obviously there isn’t a specific cause, just knowing that it is a higher likelihood means you should keep an eye out for the signs and try to prevent it by eating right when you can.
Night shift sucks. I used to do 10 × 12 hour shifts in a row, then flip over to days on my next set. I almost got flattened by a mining truck once. Lol.
The cool thing is that I got to get some really wicked northern lights, light pillars, and moon rings.
So win?
Night shift sucks. I used to do 10 × 12 hour shifts in a row, then flip over to days on my next set.
I think that’s just your particular job’s shifts that sucked, not night shifts in general. I couldn’t imagine switching between nights and days, fuck that noise. Normal 5x8 or 4x10 night shifts are great (for some people, if your lifestyle can support it).
The ones that I shake my head at are emergency responders. My neighbor is a fireman. He works the most fucked schedule I’ve seen. Partly because he takes extra shifts, but their changes from days to nights are bonkers
I almost got flattened by a mining truck once. Lol.
Lol!
What is this “sleep” you speak of?
That thing where you close your eyes, forget everything, and open them to end up (min/hrs) in the future!
That thing that happens when you think you are falling but then you wake up.
It’s a time where you die for a few hours and wake up again if you’re lucky.
Saddam fine gig if you can take it.
Honestly, I hate the night shift, it means I get to do waaaayyyy less gay activities for the tradeoff of a bit less traffic on my 45 minute highway commute and not being bothered most of the shift.
I need out of this fucking job.
Money! haha.
I wouldn’t do my job during 3rd shift unless my wage was getting double my wage.
I worked overnights for 7 years in my late teens and early 20s. Pictures of me from then aren’t Saddam 10 minutes out of a hole bad, but they’re still pretty bad.
