r/Nightshift

I just joined a company, it's been less than a week, I've working 12 or sometimes more than 12 hours in the name of flexible hours 8 am to 8 PM availability is must and outside that , it is as per their requirements

Just curious more than anything.

I've done shift work pretty much my whole working life.

Also, do you actually enjoy the night shift? I really like it personally.

I’ve been working at this startup for a while now and everything is making me question my decision. Having 12 hours of night shift with a 30 minute break at 9lpa. Is it worth it? And it’s 6 days a week with optional Sunday. Not sure if I’m lowballing myself or if this has become a new standard

I may be in the minority here, but I prefer working night hours over usual day hours.

It's usually much more chill in my experience to work night shifts, while crazy things can absolutely happen during night shifts, it can happen regardless of what time of day it is. I like how it's usually less busy during night hours, less people around, and there's less competition for night shifts in the first place since a majority of people don't want them. I generally operate and do better with night shifts than I ever did with day shifts.

A lot of this might be due to the fact I'm already a night owl myself, so it works better with my life than someone who lives a daytime-oriented life. I have no problem staying on a night schedule on days off (its actually really unhealthy to flip between days and nights anyway, making people work constantly rotating shifts should be illegal imo)

I feel bad for day people who are forced into night shifts, it's genuinely tiring when you gotta fight against your natural rhythm every day. Sometimes I wish employers prioritized putting night people on night shifts and day people on day shifts. They would have lower turnover rates for night shifts if they did so.

After years and years of night shift - I’m done!!! This is my final 10-6 ever. I have been giving away free shit since I got here. Cannot wait to remember what the sun feels like.

Its so weird! I was outside gardening all day with my fiance and then we took our pup to a pool. Its so crazy most nights I'd be dragging. But I'm so excited to do it all over again tomorrow! We have over 40 flowers to plant and 2 bushes! And then i work again tomorrow night. Feeling like wonder woman!

The summer is hitting, and it starts to get really brutal in the afternoon.When I normally work out its the afternoon, which sucks when running. Do you guys go and work out when you wake up, right before work, Or soon as you get home from work?

More than half of these so-called blackout curtains don't block out anything, and the sun can peek perfectly through. I guess you have to spend over $150 or something to get something that genuinely blocks out all light, but every single brand of blackout curtains that I get that claims no light gets through, turns out to be penetrable by light. So now, if I ever hope to get decent sleep during the day, I have to double or even triple layer just to get it pitch black. How is that not false advertising...

its 4 morning... 2 more hours and end of the shift. 6:20 i am home and 7:00 sleep cant wait 😄 how much hours you have guys ?

I was always a night owl. In my teens I would be up all night. Even as an adult I go to bed at 9am. Usually stay asleep to 9am-5pm. Never have a problem at all. I love it.

ive recently got into a new night shift job, but its a lot more busy then my last ones ive had we don't get breaks as often then I used to have set breaks, how can u fit meals in when you don't get breaks as often

So I read somewhere that your bedroom should only be for sleeping.

Granted, if it's as dark as mine it can end up becoming a cave dwelling, and not somewhere you want to spend the majority of your waking hours!

But I can't seem to get out of the habit of stewing in my room, watching movies, TV, gaming etc. on my days off. Which I know might eventually end up contributing to poor mental health.

Are there any rules you don't follow, that you feel you should?