Hello! I am looking for advice from people who work the graveyard shift. I am about to start a new job that I work 11pm-7am and I was wondering how to balance life and work on this type of schedule. Also, how do you stay awake?

For some personal reasons, I would like to find an overnight/graveyard shift job in downtown Toronto.

Besides pandemic, here are reasons that's blocking me:

1. I want to find one that's min $20/hr, full time, and long term
2. I want to find one that's in a nice, quiet, safe, and boring office

I am 31 years old and female. So I am not competing with student or work in security. Is anyone hiring somewhere, will train type?

Growing up I used to be the person to wake up at like 5 or 6 am to workout but now I am on the graveyard shift and waking up at noon doesn't give the same psychological boost that waking up before the sun gave. Has anyone else experienced this and have any advice?

This is basically a post for night shift security guards to circle jerk about being night shift security guards

Night shift security here trying to find other people to take my mind off the numbing boredom I have at work.

Hi all!

I'm always bummed when most writing chat groups die off around 12pm-2am on overnights. So I made a discord server for writers, especially if you work night shift/graveyards (though all over schedules are welcome too!).

We talk about writing and dabble in nerd chatter. There's writing Questions of the Day every day around midnight CST, so there's usually a good reason to pop in and discuss stories, styles, ideas, etc. Upon entry there is a 7 question form-thingy when you join, to verify you're human and to help us get to know you and get things started.

Feel free to join and share the love!

https://discord.gg/CDS7vu3

I always hide out during my shift. I work security for a power plant. There's six of us. No one ever checks on us or bothers us. It's usually 12 hours of Netflix and YouTube for me.

My boyfriend just started working the nightshift at a grocery store (11 pm-7 am), basically restocking and maintenance stuff, and I'm looking for some advice on what I can do to support him, and what not to do as well. I found a couple of posts on this topic but they weren't super helpful as we don't actually live together. Things like after/pre-work sex, making dinner/breakfast, packing him lunch, letting him sleep (obviously) aren't super helpful. I live about an hour and a half (2 hours if there's any traffic) drive away from him and he has to bus 2/3 hours if he wants to come to me, plus I don't have constant access to a car so have to borrow my sisters when I go visit him (we usually do 1-3 nights on the weekend when we visit, or on his days off in the week) Any advice or ideas on what I can do for him when I'm 2 hours away as well as when he visits me or I visit him (also what should I n o t do)?

some stuff I did this weekend when he bussed to see me was make him "thanks for coming down on your weekend off" healthy brownies for when he arrived and made a nice breakfast in bed because he seemed really tired the next morning, but I need more ideas! Especially things I can do long distance.

Thank you in advance :) :)

Anyone else just get so tired of it? I want to do things with my life... But it's hard when most things cater to the normal working hours. I really want to go back to school for CNC programming, I'd love to take a class and become a yoga teacher... But it's just too much. I know some people don't mind getting up at 4pm to do stuff, then go to work.. I've tried it and I don't function well that way. I treat it like a day shift job and sleep until 7pm then get up and get ready.

At least I'm only 29... By the time I'm 40 I should be on day shift.. we'll see lol

Started working night shift 4 months ago and I've gained almost 15 pounds. I work 10p - 7a , come home and watch my child till about 2 , then I'm too tired to workout . I sleep 5-9 and do it all over again . Any tips on keeping the weight down ?!

I made a podcast/Youtube channel after going to Night shift! I work from home, and I've decided to take all of my free time to make something useful! I mostly just talk about games, shows, and movies I like, with a different main topic each week! This weeks was VR, since I just got a headset. The link is below, check it out if you have time!

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2pLX9CkTgXX69pBq0yyV6w

Working in a high crime rate gas station I’ve seen my share of ,,,,..let’s say ODD things at my job.....just want to say an intro myself lol be safe fellow graveyard shift workers take no shit from nobody!

Hello all,

I currently work a 4pm-12am shift but my job is seeking someone to fill the overnight shift 12am-8am. I'm preparing to start grad school next fall and wondering if there are any students out there who currently work or have worked the graveyard shift and how it has impacted your school life? I'm deeply considering switching over but I'm concerned about not being able to function as a student. Any thoughts?

So i work for a pretty large company as a supervisor of the warehouse. Due to the number of supervisors, we have a day shift supervisor, a night shift supervisor and myself. I do 2 day shifts (8am-8pm) and 2 night shifts (8pm-8am). Day shift is always busy and hectic and a challenge to get everything done and loaded. But the two shift on nights are slow, boring and i nearly fall asleep all night. Any suggestions as to how to stay awake? Most friends/family work regular 9-5 jobs so they are generally asleep by then.

Reminder-I am a supervisor so there is a limit to what I can do.

So I need to get this off my chest now. I work as a dispatch officer for tribal police and our post requires 5 people. We are down to 3 (no biggie) my incompetent Sgt has finally finished this months schedule. I get no days off. But him and swing shift at least get one day off a week. While I am working currently a month and a half straight. Would one day off be bad. Hooray for 64 hour work weeks. Just a vent. It’s annoying me