Anyone ever worked night shift?

[Dizaster]

I've worked it for a little while.. Was kind of fun an interesting for a while.. I also worked out that even at my regular hour jobs I would only get about 6 hours sleep each night (stayed up late), so it wasn't that hard for me to fit that 6 hours into another part of the day...


You really dont want to go to bed early then wake up for work as you usually would...

For your hours 11pm to 7am you'd just get home at 7am from work and go straight to bed.. Just get some really thick curtains so that your room is dark, get a shotgun to fire off warning shots in the air if neighbors are being loud bastards while you're trying to sleep... Then you can just wake up between 1 to 3 pm and stay up for the rest until you work and stuff...

Actually not bad because you get a decent chunk of the day to do stuff before work, and sleep through a pretty useless part of it....


Honestly if they pay is good and you don't have any people close to you who are going to get driven insane by your hours, then i'd take it... I can see how it would mess up your body clock, but as long as you get the sleep, then it probably shouldn't go too much against your natural cycle.. I wouldn't really want to do it for a few years, but in the short term or while you want to get some money together, i'd really go for it and just make sure you make the most of the money you make so you have something to show for it...

It's definitely a relatively cool experience... Having your lunch break at 3am is kinda unique...

[jamiebhoy]

Closest I ever got was doing a 4pm to 12am and 4am to 12pm, I did one of these for a week each month so had two week between shifts. It was office work and was nothing too hard , just monitoring computer systems but was very tiring. Might be different if you did it long term but I had an uncle who did shifts for 20 years and he still never got used to it.

Think it depends on your own circumstances,finance,family social life etc.

A lot to think about.Agree with Diz though you do need to get prepared for the sleep part of your day and that can depend heavily on neighbours etc.