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Apart from the boredom and working out what to do during closed hours you eventually become completely used to it
Took my bodyclock a week to become fully adapted to sleeping in the day and working at night. The hard shifts are the first few you do because tiredness sets in real quick
After a week though working at 5 in the morning is the complete norm!!
I guess it depends on what kind of work that you will be doing.
I worked 12-8 for about 1 1/2 years, and I loved it!
I was in my early 20's at the time, and I was the only female on the shift. I had my own office, and all the guys were in the warehouse filling orders for all our restaurants. Man they treated me like a queen, but they also loved scaring the $hit out of me when ever they could.
Even though I had an office position, I was allowed to dress down in jeans, where all the girls that worked the day shift had to dress up. Boy they hated that. It worked out great for me, because I can't tell you how many times I had to come to work straight from playing softball, and would have to clean up, and get changed at work.
I also would come in high almost everynight, even drunk a few times. I even passed out at my desk once because I was so drunk. I also was the only person with a key to the front offices, because sometimes I would have to go into the main computer room if the system went down, so I would go in there and smoke pot, since it was so well ventilated. Plus on many nights if I was tired, I would give the key to one of they guys, and tell them to come up to the vice presidents office, and wake me up, because he had a couch in there that I could crash on.
Another plus, you're ready to party all night on the weekends!!
Like someone said though, make sure that you have room darkening shades on your bedroom window, so that you can get a solid sleep in, go to bed as soon as you get home, and get up late afternoon and you'll have plenty of time to do other things. It will take some time, but your body will adjust.
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Originally Posted by AdamGB
How your night shift goes depends on two things,firecalls and your boss.
Like you said on nights you test equipment do a bit of drill(useing the equipment) or have lecturers about different topics.
Like all jobs if you got a keen boss you will do a lot but if your boss is laid back then you will do a bit less.
If you got a good watch then it does not matter if you work on a quiet or bussy station but if you work on a quiet station its more important to have boys you get on with.
Overall mate its a great job so I am sure you will get in the swing of things.
The tricky part is just getting in in the first place.:p
I worked 10pm - 6:30 AM a while back, I did it for about 5 months. It really kicked my ass, couldn't sleep cause of the noise of the city, couldn't stay awake at work. Driving home towards the sunrise is usually bad policy. For me it's not worth it, you get to work with some freaks (which makes things interesting) and usually graveyard shifts are more lax with better pay.
Bottom line, if you are young you might as well try it for a bit, worst case you make a few bucks and then quit it's a perfectly good reason to say you quit when you are looking for your next job.