I would work construction in the Loop from 7pm to anywhere from 1am to 4am about 2-3 days a week. The experience and money was great. But, the fatigue wasn't worth it.

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I worked 9P to 7A for almost a year when I was in my 20's.

No schedule issue at all.

In my 40's I worked road construction 7P to 7A for a summer and fall.

I came home and slept all day until it was time to go back to work again

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cops work night shifts
teachers do not

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A .750 of whiskey in your car and a 3 hour nap isn't exactly work.
Those papers won't grade themselves. Those early morning practices aren't run by cops.

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Sounds like you just need to change up your sleep pattern a little bit, Furious.


KRAMER: Listen, do me a favour, will you? I got a hot date tonight with Connie. Knock on my door, wake me up in twenty minutes, alright?

JERRY: Catnap?

KRAMER: No, no, no, no. This is evolutionary. I been reading this book, on Leonardo de Vinci. See, that means 'from Vinci', d'you know that?

JERRY: 7aThat must be some book.

KRAMER: Yeah, well, turns out that the master slept only twenty minutes every three hours. Now, that works out to two and a half extra days, that I'm awake per week, every week. Which means, if I live to be eighty, I will have lived
the equivalent of a hundred and five years.

JERRY: Just imagine how much more you'll accomplish.

KRAMER: Oh, I got a lot of things in the hopper, buddy!

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Highway to Heaven is on Cozi right now.

I've been on a rotating schedule for 15 years- it's really ten weeks, a total of four weeks on nights, four on days, and two weeks of Training, which is a four/ten days week. We always work 12 hour shifts, either nights or days, right now we get paid 5:30-17:30 or 17:30-05:30. I always get in at least a half hour early to make coffee, etc, so on day shift this week my alarm goes off at 0345, and I got home tonight about 6:10. I do fine on 4-4.5 hours sleep most days.

During refueling outages, we switch to all day shift or all night shift, four on/one off, so your day off moves through the week. Night shift during a long outage sucks, since you never have a calendar day you don't appear in plant for at least 6 hours. 80 days of that sucks, but many of my coworkers started their work life by boarding a ship designed to sink under the water, so most of them are f'ed up already.

Many places pay a bonus for nights, and once you get used to it, I like them better than days- our plant runs cooler on nights, fewer big bosses around, and if you have no chance to see the outside anyway, why not work nights? With our rotation, we have built-in periods of seven days off in a row, which is great for the hobby I have. There are some rough spots, too, like 12 out of 16 days I'm right in the middle of tonight. IF you sleep right after your shift, like I do, you lose much of the first day off, but you can also stay up late every night off better than anyone you know! Some coworkers try to sleep right up to get-ready-for-work-time either on days or nights, so they stay up when they get home in the morning like they do in the evening. That works with little kids, but if nobody else is home, why bother.

A lot would depend on what it would take to get off of nights for you- just ask, or wait a year, or have to bid for a day job, or quit, etc.

some people can never adjust... i cant.. but i still did it. it wasnt the never adjusting part that was bad, it was the lack of social life. you can never hang out with anyone ever.

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I worked at the Newberry Library and it scared the Christ out of me. All these noises. Huge portraits following me around with their eyes. Spiders. Falling asleep and spilling drool on the bus. One summer was enough for Tommy.

Both my wife and I did it. She never minded it; she still works until midnight. I on the other hand was never a BIG FAN, maybe because she worked more set schedules while I just did turns on nights.

Between noise and light summers were definitely harder than winters for me.

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When I worked at the board I had a hard time adjusting to getting on that 6 am train living in a college apartment with idiots making noise till 2am. Then I was terrified of sleeping past my stop. Once or twice I was so tired I almost fell asleep my feet while on the trading floor. Kinda terrifying to feel your legs go limp and catching yourself from collapsing to the ground. Good times.

Use to work nights at several jobs I had in the past and absolutely loved it.

As long it's a set schedule and not rotating go for it. I've also always been a night owl.

Positives about night shift are you dont have to deal w/ the day politics. The night shift is usually ignored by the people who think they're so important in the day time. Also, at least in my case, the work is easier to do since you dont have others really bothering you at night or don't have other logistical worries like will i make it back to this meeting after lunch, etc.. And you don't need to worry about shitty commutes since there is no commute going to your workplace during those hours. In the morning when you're done you'll be going against traffic.

Also the others who work the night shift seem to all be part of the same night culture. not sure how to describe it, but always use to get along w/ co-workers at night. the day time you have many times where there's nothing to do so you have to make yourself look busy. at night, no faking it. you have nothing to do, go read a book or browse the internet. nobody gives a shit. I use to have people bring their nintendo's to pass dead time and others who would just outright take naps. nobody at night ratted anyone out because we all know we would all be doing the same thing one time or another.

if youre the kind of guy who wants to just get your work done without all the other bullshit night shift is perfect.

added - oh and if you got the 40 hour 4 day a week deal def go for it. that extra day off is huge! i use to love having that one day off especially if it was a weekday. you could do anything without any lines or people bothering you. use to go to the ball park, go to the book store, or just go make it a sleep day. it was fabulous.

just curious furious - what line of work are you in? I think in recent times night shift jobs are long gone as they now have people in other countries daytimes doing it for much cheaper.

Yep. That was one of the worst aspects--falling asleep on public transportation. I used to snore on the damn el. I'd snort myself awake and everyone would be giving me dirty looks.

In college, I picked medicine out of a Cardinal Health warehouse from 8pm till usually 2 or 3 am, mostly for Walgreens in the area. Did it for about a year. I will say that it really enforced my wanting to get a degree so I wouldn't have to do a job like that for the rest of my life. I ended up sleeping in two shifts because I had college during the day, so it would be like a 4am-8am sleep and a 3pm - 7pm sleep. It was probably not the best, but I was young and could deal with it.

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I started out at a big, multinational firm. We had an entire department devoted to word processing documents over night. They would start at 9 pm and work until 5 am. It was the perfect job for a misanthrope as there was next to zero human interaction. I was the low man on the totem pole so I would regularly have to wait around and get them at the beginning of their shift to draft and correct documents so that they would be in final form when people arrived the next morning. I got to know one really nice guy who said he lived with his mom and young kid. He loved the job because he put his kid to bed, went to work and was there to make breakfast in the morning.

I worked a few all nighters at that place. I was loopy by about 4-5 AM but they had a very nice view of the sun rising. The worst day was when I was drafting a filing. The partner left at about 7 saying she (yes, she, which has other stories attached to it) wanted it ready to file in the morning. I had been in since about 6 am that day, worked through the night and had it ready for 9 am. She told me to go file it in a suburban location, clean up and get back in. 36 hour day. Then I found out she wrote down my hours on the project and padded hers.

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And now we know where Dolphin lost his pimp hand.

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Really surprising. Lawyers are known for their ethics.

Maybe gd never had a pimp hand!

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Still in play. 4 days a week and likely working from home on a permanent basis vs. 2 days a week if/when we return to office.

I'm a deal maker, so I have to be on my game. The gig offers far more autonomy, less oversight from management. Management only gets in my way.

Big concern is I'm an early riser and love the sun. Not sure how I would do physically and mentally. Going to chat up a co-worker who works similar hours and is around my age.

We'll see.

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Just seeing this. Worked overnight hotel security when I got out of the Army, I’ll echo what many here have said and say that I absolutely hated it for the reasons many have said already.

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why didnt you mention your a morning person in the first place? It may not work out then, sorry to say. Ive always been a night owl so graveyard shift always worked for me.

if you can turn into a night person it'll work. but that's hard. it's like telling me to turn into a morning person. never going to happen.

less management on the graveyard shift is the biggest plus.

Hawaii, this was in the first post of the thread


Why don't you log off for about a year.

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Did it in college. Sun-Thursday 11-7. Maintenance in a print shop. Would go straight from work to school. Pretty much where I learned to drink gallons of coffee. Best part was getting off work Friday morning, no school, and I go with the pressmen on 3rd shift to The Beacon Tap for beer and breakfast.

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it will be hard making the adjustment then. but i think going from morning to nights is easier than the other way around.

CFMB village idiot whistler gives posting advice.

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