Anyone ever worked night shift?

[porkypara]

Working nights is no big deal really.Been doing it for the last 10 years as part of a shift system.

[OumaFan]

For some reason when I was like 19 and working at a grocery store I volunteered to work the night shift for a while, it was cleaning the floors, 11-7 I think. The thing was I was always done by like 1 in the morning so I'd just get high, read magazines, cook things in the deli, and whine about their not being a super hot slutty all night cashier girl, since it was closed at night that was unlikely.

By far easiest job ever and I actually kind of liked it for a week or so. Then, and this is besides the not being able to go out at night with your friends stuff which quickly got old, it just started to kind of make me feel weird, in a way, like something was just off. Anyway, it wasn't that bad, It was kind of nice coming home when everybody else was going in. But I asked off of it after a few weeks. I'd try it, if its decent money, and maybe see how it is but continue to look for something else. I could see myself sticking with it longer now as I don't go out nearly as much as I did when I was 19 which was really the main problem. You might just kind of feel off but you would probably get over it.

[Cortez The Killer]

I have until the end of the week to decide. A lot of good responses, thanks guys.

I still have no idea if i'm going to take it or not.

If anything these responses have made me more strongly 50/50 than I was before

Whatever i decide, it's probably going to be impulsive like most of my major life decisions

[Nameless]

I did work night too; From 23:00 till 7:00 am... cleaning machinery in a chicken slaughterhouse.... it was very painful job, not that it was difficult, but cleaning blood, chicken fat and guts, it is, well, not very good for the self-esteem and the need for self improvement.
Anyway, the job was shit but if you can have enough rest between the two shifts, physically it is not too bad; Normally I was sleeping 5-6 hours when I came back and was active around noon till 20:00 where I was taking another little nap if I was feeling tired again.
Nightshifts aren't the ideal but definitely manageable, as long as you have enough time to rest in between and to do something so you don't have the impression to be a zombie.

[BoxingGorilla]

I have on several occasions.

Horrible.

I never felt rested and often felt myself on the verge of stroke. Maybe it was smaller than that but my heart suffered none-the-less.

[Memphis]

I've worked nights on a couple of occasions, was great. Generally you get your work done in half the time and fuck around for a large portion of the night. I worked in Cardiff many years ago putting air conditioning duct into a TV factory. Got left a list of jobs that needed doing before the morning shift started, fucked off down the pub if footy was on, then came back, did work, crawled into a tube of duct with a quilt and pillow and snored until morning, jobs a good un.

Go for it mate, but not for too long.

[AdamGB]

I've worked into the early hours a few times... 4am etc.

They had to pay us 1.5 times our rate for a night shift (which they class as if you start after 11pm... so they'd usually get you in from 4-6 and pay you single time.

Cunts 0_o

Never done a 'full' night shift, but hopefully I'll cope as I'm hoping to get into the fire service by the middle of next year.

(passed all of my tests almost 2 years ago... just found out I have to re-do them all incase I've became fatter/stupider )

I managed to cope with being up at 8am, training all day... staying up till 6am the next day to watch ricky hatton head butt a corner post, getting home at 7:30 and not bothering to sleep because I had a 12 hour shift starting at 9...

What's worse is that the gym I was working in's receptionist was on holiday so I had to sit on the desk all day... walking the floor would have made it much easier to stay awake!! once or twice I almost fell off the chair I was in if I didn't focus on staying awake but I had been awake for something stupid like 35 hours by this point!

[AdamGB]

Is there much work to be done on the night shifts porky?

I know it probably differs from area to area, but apart from call outs is it a case if doing routine checks on the equipment, playing cards and dosing in the rec room?

Is it common for some people not to be able to adapt to it or do most people get into the swing of it?

It's the only thing about the job I'm not too sure about.