HiR everybody
I wanted to stress to every guy and girl on this forum NOT to EVER work GRAVEYARD jobs.

I am a living example to how such a job can actually tear apart our lives. It is destructive and venomous. The people who want u to work such jobs are really quite clever and often are just money making people.

Please never ever take up just jobs. Work the days, sleep during the nights.Working even part-time on such jobs ruins ur career, ur concentration, focus, induce ADD, increase ADD, and make one spend a lot of money on medicines and therapists.

Do not go to graveyard shifts and most ADD symptoms are EASILY controlled.

:: HF wonders what the fundamental problem is here ... ::

Are you referring to lack of sleep, perhaps? It has been known that the sleep deprived can show ADD symptoms.

My job lately has forced me to work from 11:00pm to 6am and this was 3 days out of 5 ,the other two were 6am to 2:30 pm .This upsets the balance in my life and plays with my emotional state which is not the strongest it could be right now.The money is good ,however ,but the only reason I do it is because I 'm the boss and it is the only time the work can be performed ,But the downside is terrible ,it leaves me mentally fatiged and senses dulled and tired for a week afterward .So I agree ,the graveyard shift bites .

When I was working graveyard shifts, I don't think the shift itself affected me. It was more the environment I had to work in (it was a convenience-store type place with one of those night service windows.) The job itself was quite aggravating, but I think I could have kept up working a different job on the same shift.

What william_tell is talking about is entirely different, though. I could definitely not handle the upset to my rhythms that working nights 3 days and early mornings 2 days would cause.

Oh, and P.S., those "clever," "money making people," are called corporations. Any time a corporation hires someone to do a job, you can be sure they're getting more out of it than they're paying that person. So, in that sense, noone is ever paid what they're "worth."

Yes, sleep deprivation is a major factor here. My doctory strongly advised me to get out of this job if I were to achieve bigger things that really matter.


:: HF wonders what the fundamental problem is here ... ::

Are you referring to lack of sleep, perhaps? It has been known that the sleep deprived can show ADD symptoms.

Hi
If one is a student, such a job is really bad. The owners of these jobs do not care two hoots.It is true that every corporation is out to make money, profit, etc.. be it night shifts, day shifts, etc.

But graveyard jobs differ in that these guys pay you the same kind of pay and make you work extra harder. You have to work weekend nights. My entire week is wasted working for these guys.

I think if one is a student or not, taking up graveyard shifts can be for a limited period of time. Over a longer period, say after one year, the person develops long term health problems. And that too these graveyard shifts are mostly good-for-nothing labor jobs which do not count much for other employers. Statistics show that people working on these graveyards lose their efficiency gradually. I know most guys in my office get to sleep just a few hours every days. Perhaps 2 hours, 3 hours, etc and that is not natural night sleep to boot..'
When I was working graveyard shifts, I don't think the shift itself affected me. It was more the environment I had to work in (it was a convenience-store type place with one of those night service windows.) The job itself was quite aggravating, but I think I could have kept up working a different job on the same shift.

What william_tell is talking about is entirely different, though. I could definitely not handle the upset to my rhythms that working nights 3 days and early mornings 2 days would cause.

Oh, and P.S., those "clever," "money making people," are called corporations. Any time a corporation hires someone to do a job, you can be sure they're getting more out of it than they're paying that person. So, in that sense, noone is ever paid what they're "worth."

I worked shifts when I was in the military. What killed me was not the graveyard shifts but working rotating shifts. Having to change your sleep schedule every week or so really wreaks havoc on the body.

At one point, I was on a schedule of 4 days on, 1 day off, 4 days on another shift, 3 days off. Although we got more days off than a 5-day workweek, it was very grueling. Especially when you would get off a graveyard shift at 7am and need to be at work at 7am the next morning.