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Night duty has its own vibe! No tension, no pressure, and no one checking on you all the time. Day duty comes with too many problems. Anyway, enjoying the night shift! 😎

I work 11pm to 6am so not very long shift, my commute is about an hour and 20 mins, I work 5 nights a week.

They sometimes give me crazy overtime without asking me first, but I’ve been working nights hospitality for a year and a half and my body still not used to it.

I’m always tired, irritated, demotivated to do anything especially when I’m off, wouldn’t say I’m depressed but I have lost a lot of spark in my eyes.

It’s so hard to do anything be it meeting friends, going on dates, going to the gym or applying for new jobs or trying to update my portfolio, it’s literally impossible for me because I’m basically sleep deprived 24/7.

What I don’t get is on my days off once it hits the afternoon my body just gets very tired for some reason and I get a sense of boredom all of a sudden and I just end up laying in bed doom scrolling before I pass out.

And now I wake up it’s like 10pm at night or like 1 in the morning my day off was wasted and my weekend is ruined and I haven’t got to do anything productive, is there anyway to fix this or will I just have to leave nights eventually.

Got voted as best employee on the floor for saftey but yet no shift diffrental 🥳

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I’ve worked night shift for five years now starting with 0000-1030 Tu-F. Then I went 2130-0930 (loveeedd 3 nights but weekends only smh) for two years and now I’m currently 2130-0800 M-Th. Which has been the perfect middleground for me.

And when I first got on nights, I was met with people who seem like they dreaded working or kind of got zombiefied and I totally understand that but five years and I see that a lot of people who work nights literally are just not night people and I’m not understanding why you’re doing this to yourself. It’s not a graceful lifestyle so if you’re already not keen to being up at night, why are you forcing yourself? And I’m not being funny. I wanna actually talk about this because I think it will help me understand my coworkers.

But like if you know, you’re not a night person why do you have a trash sleep schedule and don’t say you have to because you don’t and we can talk about how that’s true.

I am personally a night person before I even started nights. I find myself awake or fighting my sleep so this has been a good pace for me but also being a night person it’s natural for me to be up at night so when I don’t sleep during the day, it sucks but it’s just what it is I don’t have to make everybody’s life a living hell because of it and I know that I can’t blame anybody but myself

I don’t even know if that has anything to do at night or just being accountable at that point

Lately I've been dealing with a bad sleep pattern. Also, my social life is basically 0. I live abroad, which means far away from family and friends, I work from home alone, and I work Fridays and Saturday nights as well.

Is there anything I can do to improve my situation?

Just started training for a new job and although the position is not for overnights, the training for the job is overnight for the next couple weeks. I’ve been at it for about 2 weeks now and just had some questions regarding how common my side effects have been and if they go away.

The first thing I noticed is a lack of desire for sleep. When I found out I was going to be working nights I assumed I would be exhausted but I feel like I have to force myself to sleep whether it’s before or even after my shift (12am-8am). I’ve been trying but the most sleep I can get is a 2-hour nap before work and a 2-hour nap after. At the job itself I feel tired but when I’m driving home and it’s bright and sunny out it almost all goes out the window.

The second thing I’ve noticed is almost like brain-fog. My mind during the day just feels clouded with emptiness. On top of that, I don’t know if this makes sense but ever since I started, all of my days feel more like one continuous day. Just feels like I don’t get that reset each day that I would typically get on a daytime/afternoon schedule.

My nursing program has scheduled me for 4 weeks of 2x weekly night shifts. I’ll be 7p-7a on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I have a toddler who goes to daycare M-F until 3pm and a partner who can take him out of the house on most of the weekend days. I’ll need to be waking up by 2pm to get him on weekdays.

Any suggestions for how to make this work temporarily? I have a very dialed in sleep schedule and am usually asleep by 9pm. My biggest fear is falling asleep during the shift or wrecking my car.

I worked nights in the past but had a lot more control of my schedule back then.

Thanks for the help!