As a night owl, this is some daywalker shit. Night shift means an easy commute, cooler temps, no need for sunscreen, quieter working environment, usually higher pay, fewer distractions, sleeping in, the list goes on. Night shift and second shift have their perks.
Can confirm. People always guess low for my age. lol
Circadian rhytm coordinates metabolic processes on cellular level, hormonal balance, and other important things. It get's calibrated by dailight. Additionally, you sleep worse during day, have worse memory retention.
I'm pretty sensible to it and get irritated skin and pimples after a too late night, a irritated digestive trackt and an abscess after multiple late/short nights.
In short, you run on fumes on nightshifts and shouldn't do that for forever. It might be fine for you for now, but please don't act like it's ok, that's misinfirmation.
What you say is mostly true, but we don't all have the same circadian rhythms. There is such a thing as night owls, and while you might not sleep well in the daylight I genuinely sleep better in a sunbeam. The times in my life that I have been the most exhausted and chronically sleep deprived were when my circumstances demanded that I be up and active before 10am. I have struggled for years against the constraints of others schedules while my body screamed at me that it wanted to do everything later. The simple fact is your body will tell you what schedule works for you or not. If you are not energized or at your best at midnight, fine, but humans come in all sorts of variations and some of us evolved to guard the tribe while others slept.
I love when someone writes a pleasant "this is my experience and what worked for me." And then people downvote. ITT some real night owl/daywalker tension. :D
Just to add some crunchy bits to the batter, your circadian rhythms will most likely shift as you age. For example, I used to be hardcore night owl, and couldn't imagine my life ever going differently. Then I couldn't do it anymore and managed to become a second-shifter. Now I'm all about getting in bed early and up early.
Yeah no, just get blackout curtains and your body's resistance to sleeping during the day goes away. The only issue I had with night shifts was the social disconnect of working during general sleeping hours, sleeping during general gathering hours, and getting ready for work during party hours.
i have a coworker who worked at an airport, and while people who worked nightshift made more money, their increased chance of recreational drug use and lack of vitamin d from sunlight did not do wonders for their aging.
Derek doesn't look like that at night. You're seeing him because he's out during the day after a full work shift. How good are you going to look if you have to stay up until 03:00 for an appointment?
Increases your chances of cancer
As does living
And stroke.
I did night shift for about 18 years, if you include the years I was a baker and did 3am-11am shift.
It was definitely bad for the body, I think the worst thing for people is that they try to live a dayshift life while on nightshift and that just kills you faster, you sleep 2 or 3 hours so you can live a day life while falling asleep on the job.
If your going to do nights then treat it like the day/night is reversed.
Still tough, I average like 5 hrs of sleep. Even if you're exhausted, your body just doesn't want to sleep in the day. So you wind up being some kind of witch doctor, where you have to perform this bizarre ritual with sage smoke and a sacrifice with a bone knife... Sometimes it works, sometimes you summon Caligula. I didn't sleep that day, but my neighbors no longer pester me about mowing the lawn at 7 AM.
There's people (like me) who are just wired like night owls. I can sleep during the day no problem. It's just sad that the society expects most people to be "morning people" and just randomly expects some to be able to handle the night shifts, instead of helping people self-select.
I ended up staying up all day and sleeping from 6pm to 11pm, I was the manager so I changed my hours to start work when I wanted.
I guess I'm a normie now, I sleep midnight to 530 and work during the day now.
I had the perfect roommate, he had night shifts, he'd do 00:00 to 09:00. He would come home around 10:00 and sleep toll 18:00 and then we'd enjoy our evening together. I'd go to bed and he'd go to work. He'd been doing this for 6 years at that point and it suited him fine and he was healthy as a horse.
I think the thing that worked for him was treating even the weekends like weekday and he'd sleep through most of his Saturday/Sunday daylight.
Night shift at a gas station with no other employees in a bad part of a major city is a nightmare
Yep, I was 24 working night shift in manufacturing. Kind of a dream job, until the following Sunday and having to go to bed at like 2pm.
when i was in my early 20s, working swing shift was the best. wake up at 10, hang out, play video games until work started at 3, work til midnight and go to bed. now i'm in my 30s and actually find myself wishing I could start work at 6 AM so I could finish at 3 PM and have that whole afternoon to fuck around with.
"What are you looking at, smoothskin?"
Worked in Sainsbury's years ago and the night shift did seem fun. No customers, play your own music and just getting on with the job.
God damnit, that's me right now as I sit in the parking lot at work.
Oh my fucking godddd ๐
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