Like I’m not getting ahead no matter how hard I try

Like heaven. It was heaven. Nobody expected me to get up in the morning, I never had to turn on the alarm, I was getting up when I had a good sleep, not when the sun got up or whatever. Happiest years of my life.

I worked nights for 7 years, I currently work swing shifts

Nightshifts were brutal, especially during the winter

It’s hard on your mental health, it’s hard to sleep, you don’t see the sun enough

There’s few things as terrible as stopping and realizing the last time you saw the sun was months ago due to your work schedule.

Working days again (though it as early as I’d like) let me feel human again.

And for those currently working night shifts, get your vitamin D levels checked. They’re low, trust me.

It feels like shit tbh. I work at a Utilities company. I work 8 hour day shifts and 16 hour night shifts this repeats twice and I’m given 2 days off. Thankfully, it’s all quiet at night so we can snooze a bit.

It can get hard working the morning shifts since I like sleeping late. Regardless, I’m always tired. I’m not physically tired like manual labor tired but more or mentally exhausted tired all the way. Do it for 4 years though and you get used to the feeling of being tired.

I do feel that my IQ has gone down from the constant lack of sleep.

This is going to depend enormously on what your body clock is like, and how flexible it is. Mine is extremely flexible and infinitely reconfigurable so I find shift work is a doddle and I dont get jetlag at all. I’m on a shift right now, and loving it. But some people really struggle with anything that even slightly messes with their natural circadian rythyms and will really struggle with working shifts and it can actually seriously impatc their health. Such people should never be forced into shift work