The tradeoff is you do 90% less work (job depending)... I've beaten cyberpunk, baldurs gate 3, starfield, and I'm replaying cyberpunk again all this year at work.
This sounds like a longshoreman I know that plays on his laptop all shift while doing first aid attendant shifts.
Night shift sucks. I used to do 10 × 12 hour shifts in a row, then flip over to days on my next set. I almost got flattened by a mining truck once. Lol.
The cool thing is that I got to get some really wicked northern lights, light pillars, and moon rings.
So win?
Night shift sucks. I used to do 10 × 12 hour shifts in a row, then flip over to days on my next set.
I think that's just your particular job's shifts that sucked, not night shifts in general. I couldn't imagine switching between nights and days, fuck that noise. Normal 5x8 or 4x10 night shifts are great (for some people, if your lifestyle can support it).
The ones that I shake my head at are emergency responders. My neighbor is a fireman. He works the most fucked schedule I've seen. Partly because he takes extra shifts, but their changes from days to nights are bonkers
I worked overnights for 7 years in my late teens and early 20s. Pictures of me from then aren't Saddam 10 minutes out of a hole bad, but they're still pretty bad.
Honestly, I hate the night shift, it means I get to do waaaayyyy less gay activities for the tradeoff of a bit less traffic on my 45 minute highway commute and not being bothered most of the shift.
I need out of this fucking job.
The key to night shift is consistency. I do night shift year round for nearly 9 years with this most recent job. I sleep 3pm to 10pm every work day and eat my meals at 11pm,3am and 10am.
I found over the years that the people who couldn't handle it were still trying to live a day life on night shift. They would try to get through with a short nap in the morning and another one just before work then try and fail to catch up on the weekend. They would eat breakfast lunch and dinner at home then have another meal at work so they were overeating and gaining weight or getting diabetes.
Money! haha.
I wouldn't do my job during 3rd shift unless my wage was getting double my wage.
What is this "sleep" you speak of?
It's a time where you die for a few hours and wake up again if you're lucky.
