Have an opportunity to move to a 9pm-7am, four-day workweek. The four-day workweek is the big draw.

Never worked nights before, so I have idea what it's like.

Hitting the golf course after work many times per week has great appeal, but I'm an early riser, usually up by 5-5:30am every day.

How long does it take for your body clock to adjust? Any real drawbacks other than not being able to meet Bagels for a Tuesday show at the Empty Bottle in 2021?

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It's dark out.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It sucks . Don’t do it . Especially at our age, wreaks havoc on the body .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

There’s this bar up here that opens at 6:30 AM and supposedly caters to the guys getting off that type of night shift. I have been meaning to try it, but I much prefer coffee at 7:00 AM. Shit I should go over there right now!

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Yeah, get over there. You can conduct a focus group for me.

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This. I did it for a year or so and developed a weird skin condition I think was caused by a lack of sleep. You never get used to it

Some thrive and some it is disastrous. I know this is no help but you don’t know until you try it out. For me i can’t sleep really once I start to get sunlight. I suppose cycling speed at night and downers when you get home could work Elvis.

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I haven't done it but know people who have but the biggest problem is that it kind of destroys you off days too. You still have to sleep the daytime away on your first off day and then you can't really flip the switch and be up on weekends during the times everyone else is up or it messes with you the next week.

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I did it for a week and hated it. To be fair, you need to do it for a couple months and get into a routine to know if it’s for you. My dad worked a couple years on the swing shift. He literally changed shifts every week including 3rd shift. I don’t how he did that.

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I'm pretty sure night shift work correlates with more chronic medical problems and a shorter life span than day shift work. I would look into the research on this before accepting the position.

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Prior to having children I did it for many years and it always suited me fine. I liked the experience I got running things overnight in my department and troubleshooting problems, it really set me up for further opportunities down the road. I also enjoyed getting off in the morning and heading right to the golf course a couple times a week, we had a regular foursome and those rounds were always a lot of fun. Saturday mornings when i got home I would usually only sleep until about noon, so I never found my weekends to be ruined or anything, just a little extra tired late saturday night. Once my wife and I had kids things changed where I wanted to be home in the evening to help with the kids and by then i had enough time on nights where they let me transfer to days. Working nights are very fond memories for me, sometimes I miss those days sitting in meetings and on conference calls all day.

anyone with experience working fights ?

This, plus it depends on what your job is and how much interaction you will have with people that have worked nights for years.

There is often a different type of personality on the night shift.

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I did it for a summer as a yout.

I agree with the people who said your body never really catches up. I did ok with it because I was young and the work was easy. I was a night watchmen at mc cormick place so the only real task was to sit in an assigned booth.

I was assigned the booth for a product that titled itself the most comfortable car seat ever invented. After all the tradesmen had left and I ate lunch, I through on my headphones, sat in the chair for a moment and closed my eyes. The next thing I knew it was daylight and all the reps were hustling around the floor.

The expectations weren't very high. Co workers were all kind of misanthropic and there was definitely drinking on the job going on. Every once in a while I'd make a bit of friendship. Once you got the trust of these guys, they would open up with all the wild thoughts and conspiracies floating around their heads. They always wreaked of cigarettes, alcohol and BO. The company was thrilled to have a college kid like me where the only employment problem they might run into is the occasional nap.

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I have an old friend with a Ph.D. who works the night shift at UPS. He's worked there for at least 20 years. He's been offered promotions and day shifts but he sticks with the same job and shift. Very odd personality and completely distrusting. I've known him since high school and refer to him in the shortened version of his name. My wife doesn't know him as well. She got stuck in a one on one conversation with him at a party and referred to him in the same familiar way and it set him off into a rage. It was like Black Widow trying to get Hulk to calm down. I assume he has killed someone at some point while he skulks around as a creature of the night

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Furious, male prostitute.

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The rage at being referenced by childhood or familiar name I almost get. Well, not the rage but a discomfort. I have/had a nickname from my youth and if anyone I’ve met since I turned 22 or so says it I find it extremely off putting. You don’t know me well enough to use that. I do make exceptions for in-laws just because I’m not sure my brother has referred to me by real name.... ever. One of my wife’s friends keeps trying and.. no. Seems forced and I have little affection for this person.. little tolerance even.

I worked nights for a year. I loved it. But it did take a good month or two for me to get adjusted to it and be able to sleep much during the day.

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There is a lot of folks like this that work nights I discovered.

They are there at night because MANY don't want to socialize with others.

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In his seventies, my dad actually switched to nights. Now he is working from home and his first floor office is perhaps the most comfortable room in his home, with my mother's second floor office being the second most. Then they usually sleep to noonish.

In college I briefly did it at the post office and it was bizarre. But people who work at the big processing centers were a different bunch anyway.

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I've done it.....it's incredibly difficult to maintain a social life when a majority of your friends and family are on a more "normal" schedule.

My current job involves large IT implementations which tend to be 24 x 7 for a number of days. Often I take the night shift
1) to show the people that work for me that I don't think I'm above the shit work
2) less suits meddling during the night shift

It's a really rough adjustment to switch back and forth in short amounts of time, but I live....just part of the job.

I couldn't do it for an extended period of time.

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I did a 6pm-6am shift for a while.

Your social life is nonexistent since nobody is on that schedule. If you are a religious person, difficult to go to church since evening mass doesn't end in time for you to get to work and after a 12-hour night shift you typically are too tired to clean up and go to morning mass.

Your personal time is usually the hours between 2-5pm. I used to watch a lot of Highway to Heaven reruns on weekday afternoons.

I didn't enjoy it. Highway to Heaven, though....not an awful show. Made you feel good about life....the horrible life you were leading that forced you into watching Highway to Heaven on a Tuesday afternoon. So, it was kind of a wash.

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I've never worked nights, but I've always stayed up later than I should doing work. I feel like my brain works better. When my older kids were younger I rarely went to bed before 4.

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6 to 6 would be a no go.

I did 11pm to 7am. You could still do stuff in the evenings. You could do stuff in the mornings. I thought it was a great schedule. If you are a person who can manage on 5 or 6 hours of sleep you have options. You can sleep right as soon as you get off and get up by like 1 or 2pm and have a lot of time. You can do stuff in the morning and sleep in the afternoon and then still have time for things before work.

But not everyone can adjust to that schedule.

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Unless live in a remote area or sleep in the basement I would suspect a smaller but still relevant consideration would be noise during your sleep time. Mowing lawns, construction, phone ringing, horns honking, kids playing, birds, dogs,...

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This. Worked nights in my 20's. No big deal. Worked nights in my late 30's early 40's and was a zombie during those years. Probably took years off my life.

All of this is correct. I had a loud fan on all the time to drown out the noise. When we first moved into our house we didn't have dark curtains and the sun would shine through. At one point, I was working 12hr shift 7PM-7AM 6 days a week for months. Ended up sleeping one day in the freakin closet because I was going crazy trying to get some sleep during the day.

Knew a guy who worked at the power plant in Hennepin thst would come to church after a 12 hour over night. Can’t even begin to imagine. As a younger man during calving season I worked 24 hours with naps scattered through day. Probably averaged 4-6 hours spread through the day. Week 1 was fine. Week 6 was walking zombie. When we hired a guy i let him take days and I took nights. Tried him 2 nights a week but it didn’t help me. Phone just rang at 1 am. Only thing that helped was moving calving to green grass and cutting here by 3/4. More daylight to spot problems, less cows to have problems.

Will take you about a month. You have to pick how you will sleep and stick to it. Plus you have to get used to missing out on some things. What are going to be your days off? Invest in blackout curtains, make where you are going to sleep as dark quiet and cool as possible to make it easier for your body and more importantly brain to relax and sleep.

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You never adjust and it really sucks.