Any of you guys work nights or overnights?

It was great for the longest time. I was up all night and got some sleep in the morning. However, after a year or so, my body started physically declining since I'm not sleeping at times when I should be, I guess. It's also really tough to stay in any sort of shape since you're sleeping half the day off. There were days that I would just collapse in bed and sleep for most of the day. It's very draining knowing that you woke up and it's late afternoon. All in all, maybe it was because I was taking fulltime courses too, but it's very draining after awhile. I couldn't stay awake at work eventually and is basically knocked out during those nightly shifts before I finally quit.

 

7:00 pm to 7:00 am here.

As someone who has done this shift much longer than me once told me "You don't get used to it, you just get used to feeling like $hit all the time".

 

It is an adjustment. I had a midnight shift, while going to school.

It doesn't have to be as depressing as some make it out to be.

I never had to worry about traffic. My car didn't take as long to cool down.

 

I worked shift work for a couple years not too long ago. Greatest day of my professional life when I finally found a regular daytime job again. I think if it had been a steady night shift, I might have been okay...but instead it was a rotating shift, working 8am-8pm for 2-3 days, then a day or two off, then working 8pm-8am for 2-3 days. The constant shifting of my sleep schedule killed me. Now, I sleep every night, and I love it.

I know that doesn't help too much nWo, but what Htown said is right. You don't really get used to it. When on nights, you never feel good, but it does become easier to stay awake as you do it longer.

 

I deliver chocolate fountains weddings and bar mitzvas and stuff. Got classes during the day so it's a good night job. Just stand around and talk to drunk people.

 

Just put some aluminum foil up in your windows or get some really dark curtains to help you sleep during the day.

I regularly have to put in 15-30 hour days (not as bad as it sounds, think of it as just knocking your entire work week out at once) and find that nothing beats a few strong dark cups of coffee.

 

Is the foil for the sun, or the government?

Or does the government control the sun?

Yeah, I still have the plywood my dad put up on my window during Hurricane Rita. Has worked WONDERS for my sleep. No sun = sleep!

(I work Saturday-Wed 3pm to 11pm)

 

Where can I find a night time job? I work from 7a.m.-4p.m. but would like another job after my day job. Also I'm looking for something that pays at least 15 dollars an hour.. I make so so money working for a fortune 10 company as an IT guy but I need to save up more money to open a business.

Please serious response only. Nothing like be a man w**** ....

P.S. 3 kids also is whats driving me to find a 2nd job

 

I'd kill to have a graveyard shift job... I love being awake at night. It was easy for me to stay awake at night because the 2 jobs where I had to do it, I had to do manual labor.

Unloaded 18 wheelers for Walmart and loaded trucks for RPS. They were high impact workouts disguised as jobs. Hehe.

 

I've worked night shift for almost a year. At one time, I worked night shift 3 (3-11pm) days during the week and mornings (8am-4pm)on the weekends but since I became supervisor, i went to night full time, Sun-Thurs.

Its quite a challenge, espcially if u have a social life. I loved it where I was 3 days during the week and work weekend mornings so I could go out with my gf all the time, but now, i just hangout with her before work up until 230pm and my days off. Its difficult at first, but u get used to it.

Its good to work night shift for geeks since alot of them here at work *coughs* Miguel *coughs* stay up to play their games or stay up at night anyway where morning shifts would suck for them.

Overnight shifts, I can't imagine working that shift, but since I usually stay up till like 3-4 in the morning anyways, it shouldn't be so tough.