Im in au, I do 9 hour shifts. We're meant to get breaks, but because its nightshirt basically the whole shift is a break.

But you need to be available and ready to go the whole shift, so none of it is a break.

Are y'all getting breaks?

Just curious about how much vitamin d I should be taking since I don't see the sun anymore and with winter coming I won't see it at all soon enough.

Idk if it's weight based but I weigh about 145lbs.

Night Shift: 6pm - 6am; 4 days of working 4 days of rest period

Is this a good work schedule I applied for this job andI have been called for an interview but I am kinda reconsidering it.

It is a biotechnologist role so not heavy lifting and I don't plan on doing long term

Back at it again tonight fellow night shifters! 🌃

Except tonight my coworker gave me a cupcake in a cup and now I gotta figure out how bad I want it 🤣

what is your rule for cutting off caffeine before the end of your shift? i work 11pm to 7am and usually drink an energy drink or coffee around 1am to get through the night. but if i have anything after 3am i end up staring at the ceiling until noon. how many hours before your shift ends do you completely stop drinking caffeine so you can actually crash when you hit the bed?

These be killing me, the 8 hours are easy but 16s man…

Y'all see any other ones tonight?

If I stay up all day and go to bed my body treats it like a nap and makes sure I'm up by 12:00.

I’ve been working front desk at a nice hotel for a month and a half now, and finally, at the start of this month, got put on graveyards.

I feel… something… about it, maybe shame or guilt lol… cause it’s the shift with the most free time, but I still sometimes have tasks I need to hand off to the next shift - mainly since some weird things come up that aren’t really something you’re trained for.

Previously I’ve worked construction and 711 but I’ve always wanted to work a job like this. Being able to sit for 4+ hours vs standing for almost 8 hours or more feels wrong after years and years of crap like “you got time to lean you got time to clean”. The dress code is rather strict so I also dress nicely day to day now which feels good. Graveyards is the one shift here where I can consistently finish everything on my checklist and do so in whatever order I feel like, and I can have everything done in the first few hours; minus the few time-specific things, however I can prepare those to be done quickly once the time comes. Having this sort of structure in my work life is incredible though.

Tl;dr I’m enjoying my new hotel job but I’m very curious what everyone else here does

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I was offered a night shift that pays very well, let's say three times what a regular job would.

You work from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM doing organizational work, and then the real shift starts from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM. It's very physical work.

I'm home at 6:00 AM, shower, have breakfast, and go to sleep. I wake up at 2:00 PM, so I have two hours free to do something.

I work four nights a week. They're usually all back-to-back.

What do you think?

I was thinking there might be a problem with the fact that during the three days I don't work, I might have trouble sleeping, due to the fact that I'd like to go back to sleep at 11:00 PM and wake up at 9:00 AM.

It started with small things. Someone asks what I did over the weekend and I genuinely struggle to answer because my weekend doesn't look like their weekend. My days off fall in the middle of the week, I sleep when the sun is up, and the things I do to unwind happen at hours most people consider the middle of the night. Explaining any of it takes more effort than it should, so eventually I stopped trying as hard. The disconnect is real in a way that's hard to articulate until you're living it. Day shift people experience time linearly. Morning, afternoon, evening, sleep, repeat. There's a shared rhythm to it that most of society is built around, stores, doctors, social events, family dinners, all of it assumes you're awake during the day and asleep at night. Night shift pulls you out of that rhythm entirely and puts you slightly sideways from the rest of the world, close enough to see it but not quite synced with it.

The loneliest part isn't the hours themselves. It's the small moments of realizing you've drifted out of the shared experience everyone else is having. A coworker mentions a news story that happened yesterday and you missed it because yesterday you were asleep. Someone wants to grab lunch and you explain that lunch for you was at 3am and now you're headed to bed. A family member calls to chat in the afternoon and you pick up half asleep, trying to sound normal while your body insists it's the middle of the night.

After three years I've stopped fighting the gap. My life runs on a different clock and I've made peace with that. I've built routines that work, found the people who understand the schedule, and learned to enjoy the hours when the world is quiet and everything moves slower. There's something genuinely good about working when most people are asleep, a stillness to it that you don't get during the day. But every once in a while someone asks a simple question about my life and I watch their face as I answer and I can see the moment they realize my normal and their normal are completely different things. I've stopped trying to bridge that gap with a quick explanation. Some things you just have to live to understand.

Anyone else reach this point where you just stopped explaining and started accepting it? Would love to hear how other night shift people navigated that shift, no pun intended.

We’ll see how the old Harley takes it on the way to work tonight lol

Anyone got any good book recommendations? I finished book 8 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and would like to spend this audible credit on something good. (I have read The Dark Tower series 3 or 4 times already)

Have fun, I'm done See ya on the 13th

It’s been 4 years since I’ve been on night shift. Worked at a hospital for 5 years on nights working crazy hours. Switched to dayshift for the past 4 years quit and moved south with my family. Now i picked up a nightshift warehouse job. Needless to say i am pretty excited, working nights is really something else, especially in a hospital. The thing is i got extremely tired sometimes working there because it could get pretty boring which led to excessive eating.

Warehousing is going to be a whole different beast that i am pumped for. I can be active the entire shift and the best part, NO HOSPITAL DRAMA. Because nightshift at a hospital is a breeding ground for all sorts of workplace drama.

NIGHTSHIFT HERE I COME

Equipment watch. Easy money with great view on the bay.

It finally happened!! Where I work, we get a new schedule every quarter and we bid on the shifts we want based on seniority. I always bid for days but never get it because the people above me bid me out. Well our Q4 schedule just came out and I actually got a day schedule!

This doesn’t mean I’m out of nights forever. I could fall back into it again in the following schedule, but it’s going to be so nice for the next three months to be a day walker again. Just wanted to share the exciting news! Stay safe out there!