Current Events > Could you see yourself ever working a graveyard shift?

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Say the pay and benefits are significantly more than what you make now.

I did for like a decade with mediocre pay.

The work wasn't bad, but no one is respectful of your sleep time. They assume since you're home at noon that you can do shit for them. It's the equivalent of asking someone to go to your house at 3am and wait the rest of the day for someone to come and install the internet. That's my sleep time!

It's not in a rat-infested textile mill, is it?

i did and it's definitely not worth it.

I'm doing it right now. 4 days 10 hour shifts. The first month was extremely difficult but the body adjusts.

if it was work from home, then yea.

I just got picked for a specialized team that works grave hours. First time in my life but I'm down to try for a bit

It's what I've been working the past 11 years...

I did already, dont see myself doing that again

The graveyard shift, no problem.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7K8UYX0UfE&t=40s

I already do >_>

I've done it before. Would consider doing it again if the price was right

I did a midnight to noon shift in the Army for several months and I hated it. Walking out of your workplace at fucking noon knowing you had to get to sleep by 4 pm if you didn't want to feel dead at the start of the next day..... jesus.

Already did it for 7 years.

I did exactly that.

It was okay for a while, but it will fuck your life up.

It has actually taken a good three years to get my sleep in some kind of normal order.

At some point, your friends will learn to not even ask you if you want to do something because they know you will be so tired. I would wake up at 5PM and my energy wouldn't kick in until 7.

I'm certainly a closing shift guy.
But getting out at 4:15 AM for years will mess you up.

Do I miss the Money, Yes!! Do I miss the perks...sorta, but I am bad about burning paid days off and shit.

If you're going to do it, give it a shot, but don't do it for long.

I already have done that

I have no problem with it.

Aslong as it's not a graveyard or a morgue sure

I work graveyard and am currently heading in to work 4 hours early because a coworker keeps getting sick. :l

Even though I'd consider myself a night owl, there's no way I would ever want to work nights.

Like nights by yourself is kinda scary

My job switches every quarter. I like day shift for the normalcy of it all. It's real nice and quiet on nights though.

I work that now

All you have to do is take a short nap when you get home and then go to sleep early and everything is basically normal. You just have to keep a regular schedule.

Its nice being able to do things during the daytime when everyone else is at work.

I did it for 7 years. Simultaneously the best and worst job I had.

I can do it if the price is right.

Slayerblade11 posted...

I'm doing it right now. 4 days 10 hour shifts. The first month was extremely difficult but the body adjusts.

Mine didn't. I would stay up all night and sleep all day and it was hard to get to sleep because of the sun. I had to put tin foil on my windows to stop the sunlight because I didn't have blackout curtains. I hated it because I lost a lot of my life. All I did for 3 days was sleep and I missed out on a lot of gaming and shit.

I remember going see a wrestling PPV because I got a rare Sunday off and then passed out on the floor while the matches went on.

Easily

Social Life = Over

Ving_Rhames posted...

Social Life = Over

Same for 2nd shift though

Did it for 15 years.

i did for like 3 weeks before i got a better job. if the money was right ($35/hr+ / 70k/yr+), then i'd consider it. But even then, ehhhhh

I worked grave for 13 months. It took about two solid months for my body to adjust to the backward sleep hours. I basically had no life during that time, just slept and worked. I literally sleepwalked around the gaming floor (worked at a casino) like a zombie during the final two hours of my shift for those first couple months. It was rough but I eventually adjusted. I would sleep from 9-3 and have enough time to get stuff done before work. But after a year the hours were no longer compatible with my life and I found a day job in an office.

I have for several of my jobs, and it's my preferred shift. I am not a morning person, so getting up for a job in the morning is rough for me. Evening jobs are ok, but it feels like you don't have time for anything else but work. Graveyard shifts often have less people to deal with, and you still get the afternoon to take care of stuff, and it's way easier staying up than waking up.

So if it offered better benefits then absolutely.

Ya'lll freaking me out about going into a graveyard shift. Mine will be 7pm-4amish, 3 days off

My wife would be very upset if I did. She can't sleep if I'm not home. It would likely take her months to adjust to being alone at night.

I'm literally working from 6pm to 6 am right now

Thats my favorite shift

As long as there's no giant bats

Did it for 7 years, and was only making $10.20 when I left

Ving_Rhames posted...

Social Life = Over

That's one of the reasons I stayed for awhile. Some of my best friends were there. But after they left, I was miserable

I have. This was back in 2005, I was getting around 12.50 an hour, which at that time, when min. wage was maybe 8.75 CAD, that was a lot of money. I'd also take any overtime I could get and work holidays. I was able to clear out the Jumbo Video (Canadian Blockbuster) movie library in just a couple months.

It was also one of the worst jobs I've ever had as I was being extremely overworked. I'm talking working 29/30 days a month. 10-12 hour shifts. Highly illegal, my boss got fired because of it.

Way, way back when I worked at a grocery store there was an opening for being the guy that changes all the sale price tags throughout the store on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I took it but gave it up after about a month, not because of the time of day but because it ended up being way more difficult of a job than I had realized I was working the whole shift and only getting maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through it. (It probably also didn't help that state law apparently requires all the price tags to be aligned to the far right of each item's place on the shelf, a fact I was not aware of or informed about until near the end of my first shift on that job in which I had been centering the price tags instead.)
I can't prove anything and it might just have just been my depression and low self-worth talking but I feel like trying that position and failing to continue doing it for very long got me on management's bad side and they were just looking for excuses to cut my hours and get rid of me after that.

yes, and i hated it

i was always tired, my social life was gone, work was boring, and i kept getting sick.

but it works for some people. Other people on my shift were doing it for 10+ years

I've done it before.

Used to do a 10PM to 7AM, that was rough sometimes but overall not too bad.

Now I'm on a 6PM to 3AM and it's pretty great, I'm asleep by 4AM before the sun comes up and wake up early enough that I still have several hours to do errands and whatnot.

xMythic posted...

I worked grave for 13 months. It took about two solid months for my body to adjust to the backward sleep hours. I basically had no life during that time, just slept and worked. I literally sleepwalked around the gaming floor (worked at a casino) like a zombie during the final two hours of my shift for those first couple months. It was rough but I eventually adjusted. I would sleep from 9-3 and have enough time to get stuff done before work. But after a year the hours were no longer compatible with my life and I found a day job in an office.

Ya, and trying to fall asleep after working the floor was just not happening.
A full shift of that shit, with the lights and overbearing sounds, and all the other shit that goes on.
The old Game King Cabs were pretty friendly though. I kinda do miss working on the machines.
~Managment though was pure evil. Not IGT but the House Managment.

I did it for years at my current job and for a few days at my last one. Even now, I don't have to stay past 1:00 anymore put sometimes I'll stick around until 3:00 or 4:00. I kinda prefer working nights. Never have been much of a morning person.

Oh yeah, I'd probably prefer it. However, while I very much dislike it, most businesses are closed and everyone's asleep.

I did a graveyard shift for two weeks almost 10 years ago. Quit that job because of the hours among other reasons and have never had a schedule like it since. Good riddance.

I've done it and it sucks. It's not worth the price you'll pay to your health, social life, family life, etc.