I did my first night shift ever last night. I have two more infront of me.What do you think of them? Can you remember your first one? Do you do them regularly .Don't know about how you feel about them but am tired and feel like my lifes gone in reverse lol where's my social life gone all of a sudden?.Tell me your feelings about them love them hate them don't minds and the rest.

night shifts are cool.

Didn't like them at all, throws your body clock out and if you're not careful you start slapping on the weight. I did them for nearly a year and hated it. Also a while back I read that there are higher cases of cancer in women who work night shifts. Probably just another unfounded statistic, but it makes you think???

I used to love nights, did them for 7 years.

Great when you get used to them, I was always up for about 11:30am - 12:00 then the rest of your day is yours (it's suprising how little sleep you can manage on for a few days)

i'm not going to being doing them all the time

I did my first night shift ever last night. I have two more infront of me.What do you think of them? Can you remember your first one? Do you do them regularly .Don't know about how you feel about them but am tired and feel like my lifes gone in reverse lol where's my social life gone all of a sudden?.Tell me your feelings about them love them hate them don't minds and the rest.

Hate em, hate em, hate em..............mind you I hate day shifts as well! The only shift I like is day off shift!!

i dont mind nemi doing night shifts, i get the bed alllll to myself pure blisssss !:hihi:

They are horrendous at first but you do adjust and then its great! This time of year is much worse than the summer too... I would never go back to 9 - 5 now!

i had a great nightshift lastnight

i deliver stuff to glasgow - got to penrith and realised id left some behind so had to come back and then drive there and back

ive always prefered nights - i am awake more and less traffic!

I did them for a summer when I was a student and it was ok. Quite enjoyed having a beer for breakfast in the garden when everyone else was getting up and going to work. Didn't enjoy trudging past pub gardens on a lovely summer evening when everyone else is having fun and I'm going to work.

Long term I understand that regular night work is linked to weight gain, and under the working time regs employers should offer night workers a free health check

I love the variance and free time my shift pattern gives me.

My 4 weekday night shifts (Mon - Thu 22:30 - 07:30) are followed by 6 days off. Our 3 12hr weekend night shifts are a pain, but we're so busy they fly by. I can handle 3 of them every 5 weeks.

The adjustments you have to make for night shifts are hard. Your guts can be in a bit of a tangle at the end. Having no kids makes things easier for me - I've no idea how people cope sleeping during the day with youngsters racing round the house.

I'd be lying if I wasn't concerned about the possible long term consequences of shift work, and I would never do permanent nights. But I certainly can't envisage a return to the monotonous Mon - Fri grind.

Of all those I know that have worked long-term nights for many years, nearly all have exhibited psycological (or is that psychiatric?) problems worse than average.
Stress related, anxiety, depression, marital etc.

This is purely anecdotal, but covers about 15 individuals.

winters much easier than summer.Also take some time to adjust to but therye cool

Of all those I know that have worked long-term nights for many years, nearly all have exhibited psycological (or is that psychiatric?) problems worse than average.
Stress related, anxiety, depression, marital etc.

This is purely anecdotal, but covers about 15 individuals.

I wont disagree with you, I work nights every other week now due to changing circumstances at work. I hate them, but then I hate any shift where I have to work.
Your right about the psycological problems, I have a few myself and I see them in people I work with.
I have seen new starters develop some of these typical problems within a few months of starting and old timers who seem to have suffered from them for years.

I love the variance and free time my shift pattern gives me.

My 4 weekday night shifts (Mon - Thu 22:30 - 07:30) are followed by 6 days off. Our 3 12hr weekend night shifts are a pain, but we're so busy they fly by. I can handle 3 of them every 5 weeks.

The adjustments you have to make for night shifts are hard. Your guts can be in a bit of a tangle at the end. Having no kids makes things easier for me - I've no idea how people cope sleeping during the day with youngsters racing round the house.

I'd be lying if I wasn't concerned about the possible long term consequences of shift work, and I would never do permanent nights. But I certainly can't envisage a return to the monotonous Mon - Fri grind.

Ginner, i'm guessing by the shifts you've described that you work at the same place as me and surfinjim. Tankersley way?

Which platform?

Of all those I know that have worked long-term nights for many years, nearly all have exhibited psycological (or is that psychiatric?) problems worse than average.
Stress related, anxiety, depression, marital etc.

This is purely anecdotal, but covers about 15 individuals.Having done 7 years, I would have to say this is probably right, but my other self would not agree in case it depresses me and brings back the bouts of self-doubt and low esteem...

I have been working in shifts since quite some time, and I am okay with them. I start with two daysm and then do two nights - after which I get some days off. Earlier I used to sleep well after the last night shift and used to wake up all lost.

Nowadays after my last night shift, I go to bed in the morning around 8.00 and get up around noon, having got just 4 to 5 hours of sleep. Then I am off to the gym. By the time I am back, my body clock is back to normal.

the mandarin are you a fireman?

when I worked on shifts I thought life was passing me bye, I always seamed to be asleep or at work, Summer was good as you can sllep in the garden but the Friday nights going to work when the pubs were starting to open was a nightmare.

I wouldn't recommend it if you have young kids.

Shaun

I worked nights for 4 years - it suited my lifestyle at the time. Two kids later, I know it would be a nightmare. I used to love going to bed on cold winter mornings, when everyone else was getting up to go to work.

I never had any problems sleeping, or my body clock adjusting but I know several night staff who struggle to sleep and need medication to help them.

The worst point of the night was always 3am - 4am (I think I read somewhere that statistically, this is the time a lot of people die due to the body being at its lowest ebb??), so I planned my 'lunch' around this time, and saved some jobs to do to keep me awake.

Night shifts are a total pain, worked shifts for 30 years and there still a pain.

Noisy neighbours, people cutting the grass at 9.00 in a morning, kids playing outside your window, full sun from 5.00 am in the summer, bin men, Postmen, telephone marketing, cold calling.

Oh the joys of working nights, if you can get 8 hours sleep you are laughing if you are getting five hours it’s a long slog.

Morning shift 6am-2pm,up at 5am knackered all week.

Afters 2pm-10pm, dead man's shift.

Nights 10pm-6am fantastic!!!!

I did nights two weeks out of eight for about twenty years. Definitely a great feeling going home when everyone else is trudging off the work - a cold can or two before bed in the summer months was a lovely thing.
I used to sleep fairly well, but the tiredness was horrible at times. Like other posters have said the hours around three to four can be a real killer. I'd sometimes feel nauseated I was so tired.
Another plus point was that we had a fairly large garden area backing onto woodland - sometimes it was beautiful to go and stand out there and look at the stars and breathe the cool night air. Saw a badger once or twice too.

The jobs where I worked nights were always the best. I loved working nights, I used to have a job that had me doing 15 hour night shifts for four nights each week, it was horrible for my other half because she had no one to nag but Id rather work nights than days.

As a uni student (a hard working one, I might add) I worked in a nightclub four nights a week, got home fourish, couldn't sleep until 6am, got up for 10 am lectures and theatre rehearsals all day, then back at work 8 pm. I was permanently spaced out, in a way my fellow students paid good money to feel like. :hihi:

There was a deceptive sociablility to working in a nightclub, though. It was a buzz at the club, but not my scene, and on graduating I realised that I had sacrificed my best life chance at partying and pulling. My social life was non-existent, my love life even worse.

I'm interested to read that there are apparently proven psychological effects as a result of long term shift work. Does anyone have any links to that? One of my friends works long long hours in shifts, in a demanding life-or-death job, and has a tinge of perpetual wierdness or quiet madness about him. I do worry about the effect on him long term. My frantic round-the-clock workaholism was only for three years and that was bad enough. His is never ending.

Did nights for 15 years on and off. The best thing was there were no bosses around so you could suit yourself how you got the work done.

Hated earlies (6-2) as I got home and often fell asleep in the chair despite my best intentions.

Shift work generally does your metabolism in - it's like jet-lag. But you get used to it after a while. A bonus then is you don't suffer jet-lag when you go abroad as it's just like changing shifts.

Still have nights when I can't sleep every now and again even after not doing shifts for about 3 or 4 years now.

Ginner, i'm guessing by the shifts you've described that you work at the same place as me and surfinjim. Tankersley way?

Which platform?

Coopster1974. I know who Ginner is ?

You didn't say if you liked night shifts or not?

I think they are cracking. Yes, you feel tired and washed out while you are doing them, but the time off makes up for it.

I just dread the phone calls from home overnight to say one of the kids is ill, and then you can't really do anything apart from worry about it.

Jim:thumbsup:

The stupid b*****d who invented shift work should be made to work them...............all of them..............the whole flaming lot. :loopy: :mad: :evil: :twisted:

Employers who think that shift work is a good thing should, by law, be forced to pay at least ten times normal hourly rate. :thumbsup:

i like night shifts ,i am not a morning person:)

I worked permanent night shifts for 11 years and it wrecked my health. I had 3 small children at the time and I just snatched sleep when I could which is a very bad idea. I was permanently tired. I still do nights but only 3 every 4-5 weeks and I hate them ! They make me feel so unwell and totally fatigued for several days after I've finished them. My job is one where I must be alert at all times and - yes ! - 3- 4am is the worst time ! It's all to do with your cercadium (sp?) rhythm ! It's always hard to 'get back to normal' and I am very difficult to live with !
I am sure they are detrimental to health if you work nights long term.

i like the town

i am working 12 hour nights tonight and the people who say they enjoy them probably have little or no home life its a case of needs must or i would be at home now

I work away from home and most of the time at nights too. I find it easier to work nights when away from home. I get back to the hotel, have a few tinnies while going online and then sleep most of the day away until it's time for work again.

It'd be much harder without internet access though :?

I did my first night shift ever last night. I have two more infront of me.What do you think of them? Can you remember your first one? Do you do them regularly .Don't know about how you feel about them but am tired and feel like my lifes gone in reverse lol where's my social life gone all of a sudden?.Tell me your feelings about them love them hate them don't minds and the rest.

Have done nite shifts for 30yrs, love them, would NEVER do a day shift. My first shift i will never forget, had 12 deliveries(babies) never sat down for the whole shift or even a drink of tea, let alone a meal break, when i arrived home the following morning, fell from top to bottom of the stairs with my 10 month old daughter in my arms, i swore i would never return, but the following shift 3 nites later, we sat and hardly had any deliveries, so i,m still here, but hope to retire soon, but will miss it, cuddles with the babies especially.

This is the best time of day now when on nights -on my way to bed when everyone else is fighting their way through the traffic to work ! Off to bed now - night night !

Ginner, i'm guessing by the shifts you've described that you work at the same place as me and surfinjim. Tankersley way?
I could say "Yes.", but then I'd have to kill you, wouldn't I? :suspect:
Which platform?
Sat right behind you lot, taking your feckin calls while you browse SF and monitor the online availability of ebay.... Surfin knows what I mean...

what type of jobs do people do working nights?? i know someone who wants a job, just night shifts. any ideas? also what companies can you do deliveries just at night?

I could say "Yes.", but then I'd have to kill you, wouldn't I? :suspect:

If you work at 'that place' at Tankersley, I would be curious to know whether you work for HSBC or the government (Ministry of Defence). I don't suppose anyone is going to tell me though as the government don't have anything to do with that building do they? (Official Secrets Act etc). LOL

'that place' sounds interesting!!

tell us more, i don't mind if u have to kill me afterwards.....

'that place' sounds interesting!!

tell us more, i don't mind if u have to kill me afterwards.....

This is one for another thread and has been done on the Forum a few times. I do have more than a little knowledge of the place but I am loathe to divulge too much on a public forum.

Suffice to say that I wouldn't wish to be meeting with any sudden and unexpected nastiness, 'accidental' or otherwise. :nono: :gag: :suspect:

Yep they certainly through the body clock out, especially if you have back to backs.

This is one for another thread and has been done on the Forum a few times. I do have more than a little knowledge of the place but I am loathe to divulge too much on a public forum.

Suffice to say that I wouldn't wish to be meeting with any sudden and unexpected nastiness, 'accidental' or otherwise. :nono: :gag: :suspect:

oooh i see.

NOTE to mr blair or whoever is in charge of 'getting rid' of those who know too much..

i know nothing, i've never heard of 'that place' or tankersly for that matter, and i don't want to know and i don't care and i don't think hagrdriley (i'm sure you know his real name) knows anything either, certainly nothing that should be considered as 'too much'. unless you hagardriley are that guy in charge in which case, please don't kill me.

thank you xx:thumbsup:

oooh i see.

NOTE to mr blair or whoever is in charge of 'getting rid' of those who know too much..

i know nothing, i've never heard of 'that place' or tankersly for that matter, and i don't want to know and i don't care and i don't think hagrdriley (i'm sure you know his real name) knows anything either, certainly nothing that should be considered as 'too much'. unless you hagardriley are that guy in charge in which case, please don't kill me.

thank you xx:thumbsup:

Read the previous threads about this and then perhaps reconsider.

can't find em or i would. reconsider what? whether i want to be killed?!

can't find em or i would. reconsider what? whether i want to be killed?!

My last word on the subject as far as you are concerned. Reconsider whether there is any government involvement in the (officially) HSBC computer centre at Tankersley.

Purely as a point of interest, if you wish to get killed, for whatever reason, then be my guest, it really doesn't matter to me and I don't give a flying f***. Now p*** off and quit bothering me, I prefer to talk to grown ups.

WTF!! as if i am interested in what the government are doing in tankersley, i was just joking..

Yippee I did it just finished three in a row 12 hour nights kj venom just gone to work though wants me to get ready and go out to meet him but i really can't be bothered feels like getting ready is too much hassle if i had bewitching powers i could get ready without the effort i would but oh well there's always tomorrow night. hehe.

its not fair nemi has finished her night shifts i know it was only 3 nights but 3 nights of not fighting for the duvet or getting an elbow in the ribs was bliss!

it's a good job i love her :D

Could any1 tell me what kind of companies do night shifts? What's the pay like? Cheers

i loved doing night shifts i got used to the change within the fist few days and just started having my brekkie at 2pm lunch at bout 7 and tea at midnight. come to think of it i would love to go back to nights i ate better then than i do now lol