Ya know, people always talk about how day people suffer from working night shift, but no one talks about how night people suffer from working day shift.
I will never work a day shift again if I can help it. Absolute misery waking up like that.
i should have died on my drives to work because i was basically asleep until noon
As someone who recently switched to days after more than 15 years on night shift, if my new position wasn’t exponentially better in every way I’d go back to nights in a heartbeat.
As someone who worked night shifts for a little - it’s really not healthy.
There are studies showing that type of disruption to your circadian rhythm can take like more than a decade off your life. After doing it for a while I felt it impacting my well being, not being really awake, hitting the bed and falling asleep immediately but not deeply, super high base load of stress and heart pain.
FWIW , I’m talking working 11-4/6am type night shifts, not the late night retail/bar shifts which are tough in their own right
I think it just depends on your body.
Worked night shift most of my life until recently, and never had any issues with it. Actually miss the emptiness of the roads and how little was going on while I was working.
I had to move to days a few times since the factory was closing night shift near Christmas time, and worked that no problem either.
Working days seems to drain me more so than any night shift position ever did. And I’m working an easier job now! It’s quite wild honestly.
Your name is lucid nightmare lol… I’m not buying it ;-P
It’s fine if you live the night shift during your weekends but my problem was having to switch back and forth due to having a family.
I’ve solved this problem by simply being scheduled 7 days a week for the rest of eternity.
Yeah it’s the social life that really suffers. When my wife and I were dating I was doing night shifts 10pm-7am then classes starting at 8am.
We’d hangout after classes but I’d pass out trying to stay awake to watch a movie which would cause my body to jolt awake and scare the shit out of her
It depends on your personality and life. If you have kids or others to care for, or a social life, or anything else tied to the day-night cycle, then yeah, it sucks. No traffic on the road is huge, I don’t see how people deal with even just moving rush hour day after day. cue opening scene of Office Space Nope, I’m good with this.
Man who sleeps at day looks tired when you speak to him at day
I don’t mind it. Less work and more pay. But I am sleeping at the weirdest times.
Sleeping was really hard for me on night shift because people mow their lawns and you get phone calls during the day.
Easy fix, don’t mow your lawn or answer your phone.
Its so chill, plus you have sooo much time to yourself since everyone else is asleep
The night life is the right life
And enjoy your increased likelihood of heart disease and diabetes later!
Well, given the road we’re hurtling down as a civilisation, there’s probably not a later where they really need to worry about that
Might as well enjoy the chill out time
I’m not sure about the diabetes, but I know stress increases heart disease.
If I was on first or second shift, instead of third, I’d be way more stressed out.
It’s not even the stress. It’s the schedule itself, apparently, that increases risk of both. I would link to a source, but I am tired right now. It’s easy enough to look up, though.
You get breakfast for dinner!