Anyone here work the graveyard shift? Advice?

[jongib369]

Start working the graveyard shift Saturday, 9 PM-6AM in Garden Recovery at Home Depot

Anyone have experience with this kind of schedule?

[jaybee682]

Say goodbye to any sort of social life.

[jongib369]

7PM-7AM

I just suffer for 3.5 straight days and relax on my days off. I don't drink coffee so I listen music, watch videos, browse articles online. I usually pretend to take 2 hours to eat my meal from 2AM-4AM. Whatever it takes to stay awake.
What's your sleep schedule like? I work Wednesday-Sunday. (Going to job training now, csnt give more of a response sorry)

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[Tarik One]

[Derka]

Yeah, don't do it.

I worked 10pm-7am for 18 months. Unless you have many friends who keep similar hours, kiss your social life goodbye and get ready to be tired all of the time. Maybe it was just me, but even with blackout curtains I could never get my body to adjust to sleeping during the daylight hours and being productive with the few hours of downtime I had before work.

[ZeN]

No matter what you do, it will definitely suck.

[El Kabong]

I work 24x7 shifts, so I get a different schedule every week. Basically you'll get days where you get 2-3 hours sleep, others you can sleep normal and you won't have any friends left after about 6 months.

[fiddy]

I work 24x7 shifts, so I get a different schedule every week. Basically you'll get days where you get 2-3 hours sleep, others you can sleep normal and you won't have any friends left after about 6 months.
What do you work?

[DeuceWallaces]

Well the consensus is that you'll have no friends.

What is garden recovery?

[Droid101]

Recovery? Are you like those undercover dudes who grab shoplifters?

[Tarik One]

Well the consensus is that you'll have less friends.

What is garden recovery?

That's not always a bad thing.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

graveyard shift + 12 credits + a few other projects going on

4 hour sleep + 1/2 hour nap, lots of fruits and veggies, make sure to tell the people around you to respect what u goin thru, breathe very deeply and be calm.

[nightprowler10]

I did it for 8 years. You'll never get used to it. I'm sorry.

[Crown&Coke]

I did it for 8 years. You'll never get used to it. I'm sorry.

Seriously. This.

Small things are going to irritate you. You will have to gauge when and how you eat/drink/work out. Social life will consist of you being tired the handful of times you see anyone you want to spend time with. You will want to take a good ass nap, only to wake up more tired, and then cranky. You will want to roundhouse kick people in the trachea who say "good morning"

**** the entire world, that was how I got through it. And I wept while trying to fall asleep while the entire world was loudly mocking me.

[Draz]

You're going to fck a lot of people up soon.

[ZeN]

I did it for 8 years. You'll never get used to it. I'm sorry.
THIS...

I did it for 10 years. You learn to deal with it but you never become accustomed to it. Plus the longer you go without a few days of proper night rest, the worst you feel.

[jongib369]

Recovery? Are you like those undercover dudes who grab shoplifters?
Haha Home Depot closes at 10. I'll be the guy cleaning up, restocking and all the other fun grunt work. It'll really **** with my lifting routine, but at least I'll still be active

[Tarik One]

Haha Home Depot closes at 10. I'll be the guy cleaning up, restocking and all the other fun grunt work. It'll really **** with my lifting routine, but at least I'll still be active
Do you go to different stores in your region? I had a job offer like that, but turned it down because I could get a set of wheels in time. They still paid me almost a full paycheck even though I never started. :rockon:

[dkmwise]

I did this shift for 3 years up until last year. Right when i started it my wife and I had our first child and 20 months after that had our second. Needless to say with a young child and a pregnant wife there were many days I was lucky to get 2 hours sleep between shifts. Here are the most important things for sleep I found:

Melotonin - Really helps with getting a deep sleep and is natural.
Black out curtains
White noise machine
Earplugs
Try to get a good workout in after you get off of work, helps you sleep much better.
If it's possible for you keep the same sleep pattern on your days off. I realize this may suck for your social life but it helps you feel so much better.

[Meticode]

My honest advice? Look for another job as soon as possible. I worked 5PM to 3:30AM at one job for a year and a half. And I worked at Target when I was 19 from 11PM to 7:30AM for about 4 months.

It wears you down over the course of time and it'll get to the point where you'll feel exhausted when you go into work or get done with work and just want to sleep. It killed my social life because when people would want to hang out you didn't feel like it.

Again, find a job where you don't work past 9 or 10PM in my opinion. People should sleep during the night, not in broad daylight.

[Bandito]

Bring a lot of coffee. You're going to need it.

[BRabbiT]

1830-0630...just got home:sleeping

[jongib369]

:sleeping

[GoRapz]

Just remember to touch your daddys c0ck before you head into work

[jongib369]

Just remember to touch your daddys c0ck before you head into work

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